Navra Maza Navsacha

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Navra Maza Navsacha
नवरा माझा नवसाचा
Directed by	Sachin Pilgaonkar
Screenplay by	Sachin Pilgaonkar, Santosh Pawar
Story by	Sachin Pilgaonkar
Produced by	Sushriya Arts
Starring	See below
Cinematography	Sanjay Memane
Music by	Jitendra Kulkarni
Release date	November 2004 (2004-11)
Running time	140 minutes
Country	India
Language	Marathi

Navra Maza Navsacha (Marathi: नवरा माझा नवसाचा) is a 2004 Marathi film.^[1][2] The film stars Sachin Pilgaonkar, Ashok Saraf and Supriya Pilgaonkar in leading roles. The movie portrays the journey of the couple from Mumbai to Ganapati Pule to fulfill a vow.

The director remade the movie in Kannada in 2007 as Ekadantha. The plot of the movie is based on the 1972 Hindi film Bombay to Goa, which itself was a remake of 1966 Tamil Film Madras to Pondicherry.^[3]

Plot[]

Vakratund (Sachin Pilgaonkar) and Bhakti (Supriya Pilgaonkar) are a couple who have married against Bhakti's parents wishes. Vakratund, also known as Vacky, is an artist but does not have commercial success. Even after 10 years of marriage, the couple is not blessed with children.

Bhakti gets to know from Vacky's aunt (Nirmiti Sawant) that Vicky was born by a vow taken by his father. Vicky's father had vowed to God that if his child is born healthy, he will bring his child to Ganapati Pule naked. This vow is left unfulfilled as Vicky's parents pass away.

Bhakti tries to persuade Vicky to go to Ganpati Pule naked, but he does not agree to it. Vicky and his friend then hire a small time actor (Satish Tare) as a sage, who advises them to take a mannequin dressed as Vicky secretly in a public transport to Ganapti Pule to fulfill the vow. Vicky and his friend Kishore manage to sneak the mannequin into a state transport bus the previous night of the travel to Ganapati Pule. However, they are unaware that after their departure from the bus at night, an international smuggler named Babu Kalia (Pradeep Patwardhan) who has just escaped from prison and has stolen diamonds worth 80 crore entered the bus and hid the bag filled with diamonds in a hollow of the mannequin.

Hilarity ensues as the remaining story has the highs and the lows that the couple face while travelling in the bus to Ganpati Pule. But on reaching Ganpati Pule, they and the passengers are confronted by Police as they have an evidence that Babu Kalia is travelling in the bus to flee to Dubai from Ganpati Pule port. The whole time in the bus from Mumbai to Ganpati Pule, Vicky was drawing the portrait of Babu Kalia with the help of a fellow passenger (Jaywant Wadkar) who knew Babu Kalia. As soon as they complete the sketch, Babu Kalia springs up to his true identity and threatens Vicky and passengers for his diamonds or to kill them all. But Bhakti tells Vicky to take the mannequin to the temple. Vicky reveals that the sage Bhakti met was fake and he had planned this to avoid going naked to Ganpati Pule. However, Vicky still takes away the mannequin to the temple while others run behind him tearing his clothes. By the time he reaches the temple he is completely naked. He completes the vow and the couple are rewarded with 8 crore for catching the gangster. And they live happily thereafter.

Cast[]

^[4]

• Sachin Pilgaonkar as Vakratund
• Supriya Pilgaonkar as Bhakti
• Ashok Saraf as Bus Conductor Lalu
• Vijay Patkar as Undercover Cop
• Ali Asgar as Film Director
• Reema Lagoo as Sheila Raje (Guest Appearance)
• Sonu Nigam as himself (Guest Appearance)
• Johny Lever as Bahadur/Nepali (Guest Appearance)
• as Babu Kalia
• Kuldeep Pawar as Police Inspector
• Nirmiti Sawant as Vacky's Aunt
• Kishori Shahane as Dancer (Guest Appearance)
• Atul Parchure as Kishore
• as Sleeping passenger
• Vikas Samudre as Chiplun passenger
• Satish Tare as Ughade Baba/Actor
• as Bus Driver Prasad
• Madhurani Gokhale-Prabhulkar as Candy
• Pradeep Kabre as Tamasha group owner
• as passenger without Helmet
• Vaibhav Mangle as passenger with Helmet
• Shefali Soman as Mandakini

Soundtrack[]

Remakes[]

The film was remade in Kannada as Ekadantha starring Vishnuvardhan, Prema and Ramesh Aravind in the lead roles.

Reception[]

The film received good reviews.^[5] The Indian Express a prominent Indian daily named it as a part of a Remake Saga. In.com gave a rating of 7.3 out of 10.

References[]

External links[]

• Navra Maza Navsacha at IMDb