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Directed by | Sanjay Jadhav |
Produced by | Dreaming 24/7 Productions Deepak Rane |
Screenplay by | Chinmay Mandlekar |
Story by | "Duniyadari" by Late Shri Suhas Shirvalkar. |
Starring |
Swapnil Joshi Ankush Choudhary Urmila Kanitkar Sai Tamhankar Jitendra Joshi Sushant Shelar Richa Pariyalli Sandeep Kulkarni |
Music by | Pankaj Padghan, Amitraj, SAY Band |
Edited by | Aashish Mhatre Apurva Motiwale |
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Running time
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148 Minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Marathi |
Budget | ₹5 crore (US$740,000) |
Box office | ₹28 crore (US$4.2 million) |
Duniyadari (Marathi: दुनियादारी) is a 2013 Marathi film directed by Sanjay Jadhav. The film is about the journey of every one which eventually makes them realize the true face of life. It has been acclaimed by Marathi audience. Critical reception was positive.
It had the most collection at box office for a film in Marathi which was broken by Timepass in 2014 and again by Lai Bhaari. The film is being remade in Kannada as Noorondu Nenapu and in Gujarati as Duniyadari.It ran for more than 100 days in Maharashtra.
Duniyadari opens with grandma Shirin (Sai Tamhankar) with a streak of grey accompanying grandpa Pritam (Sushant Shelar) to Pune, grandchildren in tow. The story traces itself back to presumably the late 1970s (seen through the bell-bottom pants on the gentlemen and the polka-dot dresses and 'Asha Parekh' salwar kameezes on the ladies). Nothing is spelt out, but each character and its relevance in the plot is unveiled through the narrative that revolves around Shreyas Talwalkar (Swapnil Joshi). He is thrown into college in Pune on his mother's insistence. Under circumstances which are reminiscent of college life in the Hindi cinema of the 80s, Shreyas makes friends with DSP aka Digya (Ankush Choudhary) and his Katta gang. A do-gooder standing tall for friendships in the face of a creepy Saai (Jitendra Joshi), Shreyas becomes the voice of reason for the rustic gang.
He finds himself attracted to Shirin, but Meenu (Urmila Kanetkar) get attracted to Shreyas which creates a love triangle. Shirin is a student of Medical college and sister of Pritam. They are children of an MLA from Kolhapur, who hates Shirin, his own daughter. Shreyas accepts Meenu's proposal out of spite for Shirin (as she repeatedly turns down his advances) but is not sure about their future. Saai fixes his marriage with Shirin against her wish. Meenu later understands that Shreyas is deeply in love with Shirin. On Saai and Shirin's wedding day, Shreyas and his friends fight with Saai's gang. Finally Shirin gets married to Shreyas. She is aware that Shreyas is a patient of a deadly disease [probably cancer?] and has only few months of life in his hands. They are about to enter parenthood.