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Deool

Deool
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Movie poster
Directed by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni
Produced by Abhijeet Gholap
Written by Girish Pandurang Kulkarni
Screenplay by Girish Pandurang Kulkarni
Starring Nana Patekar
Dilip Prabhawalkar
Girish Kulkarni
Sonali Kulkarni
Sharvani Pillai
Music by Mangesh Dhakde
Cinematography Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti
Edited by Abhijit Deshpande
Production
company
Devisha Films
Release date
  • 10 October 2011 (2011-10-10)
(at Pusan International Film Festival, South Korea)
  • 4 November 2011 (2011-11-04)
(in India)
Country India
Language Marathi

Deool (Marathi: देऊळ, English: The Temple) is a 2011 Indian Marathi film directed by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni and produced by Abhijeet Gholap. The film stars Girish Kulkarni, Nana Patekar, Dilip Prabhawalkar, Sharvani Pillai, Sonali Kulkarni in lead roles. The film is about the effect of globalization on India's small towns and the terrible state of Indian villages, with a political backdrop.

Deool won the 59th National Film Awards for Best Feature Film,Best Actor (Girish Kulkarni) and Best Dialogue (Girish Kulkarni).

The film also marks the debut of veteran Hindi film actor Naseeruddin Shah in Marathi film industry.

Keshya is a village simpleton. One day, while sleeping under a tree after going in search of the village landlord's cow, he has hallucinations of Dutta (God) within the tree. He goes and tells a few people in the village including Vahini, the landlord's wife and Anna, an educated, city bred old man staying in the village. Some people rebuke him while some believe in what he says. The landlord, Bhau is disturbed by the developments. He is the unofficial head of the village though he has propped up a woman as the Sarpanch (village head). He has big political ambitions and is planning to build a hospital in the village under the guidance of Anna, which he can showcase of "development politics".


Guest Appearance

Deool was scheduled to be released on 23 September 2011 but was later postponed to November. It was shown in Busan International Film Festival, South Korea, New York's South Asian International Film Festival, the Abu Dhabi International Film Festival and MAMI in Mumbai, and was released on 4 November 2011 nationwide.


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