A Paying Ghost
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| Directed by | Sushrut Bhagwat |
| Story by | Sanjay Mone |
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Umesh Kamat Spruha Joshi Pushkar Shrotri mahesh manjrekar Sharad kelkar sharvani pillaai atul parchure sameer chaugule anita date |
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130 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Marathi |
| Budget | 3 Crores |
| Box office | esti.₹5 crore (US$740,000) |
A Paying Ghost (Marathi : अ पेईंग घोस्ट) is a Marathi language film. This is a fiction story based on a famous novel authored by V.P. Kale. The movie directed by Sushrut Bhagwat. Screenplay & dialogue has been written by Sanjay Mone. The movie is produced by Jayant Lade, Lade Bros Films Pvt. Ltd. This was the first marathi film which done with 70 minutes of visual effects.Producer of the film doesen't want to sacrifice with the visual effects hence he choose Om kamal who done Mad Max: Fury road, Captain America, Independence day as a VFX artist. It was a box office failure
The movie, “Paying Ghost”, is based on a comedy fiction by renowned Marathi novelist, Late P. V. Kale. It picturizes typical life of a Mumbai resident and how a ghost helps him to overcome the challenges in daily life. Madhav is a simpleton and kind hearted person. Madhav is staying alone in Anand Ashram Chawl; he has no parents or siblings. His neighbor, Vrunda a girl next door, likes him and always tries hard to win his heart by favoring him. But Madhav is after another girl, Madhavi, in his office. Vasant, Madhav’s only friend and savor in difficult times, tries to play cupid between them. But it ends up in certain kind of funny situation in the office. One night, Madhav returning late from office comes across a family of ghost, Gajanan Ekbote, wife Shevanta Ekbote with their six daughters. The family had no place to stay hence they request, can they be his Paying Guests. In return, Gajanan Ekbote promises they will take care of Madhav’s house, do all house works and keep it up-to-date. Although scared and unsure of the future, as Madhav is not used to say no to anyone, he agrees. Hence the movie name, Paying Ghost. Now, funny, humorous but helpful events start happening. Slowly Madhav becomes habitual of this new abnormal family living with him. One day, Vasant, Madhav’s close friend tells him that Madhavi is getting married. Knowing Madhav’s nature the ghost couple, Gajanan and Shevanta Ekbote takes initiative and make things happen that results in Madhav and Madhavi marriage. Later on Madhavi also notices presence of unseen people in her house. Madhav tells her the truth. The journey goes very exciting while unleashing all these mysteries. Note-Latest VFX animation technology is employed to create seamless special effects. The ghosts in this movie are shown as normal human figures and characters. This movie does not contain any nudity, coarse language, sex, horror and scary scenes, etc.
Prior to A Paying ghost's public release, Lade Bros. Films PVT LTD hosted a private screenings on 28 May 2015 at cities like Mumbai,Aurangabad,Nagpur,Kolhapur,Pune and some other cities.Lade Bros. Films then showed A Paying Ghost to some of the Marathi & Bollywood industry's filmmakers and actors in a first-look screening at the Fun Republic Theatre on May 29, 2015. On the following day, the film was screened at 200 screens.
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