


Balak Palak directly addresses the question of teen sexual curiosity as a bunch of friends explore the world of smutty booklets and videos. In films like Shala (2012), Balak Palak (2013), Killa (2015), TimePass (2014), Elizabeth Ekadashi (2014), the vulnerabilities of childhood become a matrix of historic transformation. While Shala tells the story of adolescent love, of yearning and loss in a rural town of Maharashtra, Killa centers around a child’s emotional development while he is on the cusp of socio-economic transformation. The film, which won the National Award for Best Feature Film (2003), was a sentimental tale of a grandfather’s wearing effort to save his grandson who’s diagnosed with retinal cancer.Ĭhildhood and nostalgia were winning themes in this decade. Some may even trace this resurgence to Shawas (2004), India's official entry to the 2004 Oscars. The past decade observed an emergence of multiplexes, studios, young filmmakers with bold stories and also a willing spending common man for the industry to evolve.” We must look into the social, economic and cultural factors which determined that particular era. On a call to Firstpost, Kulkarni elaborates, “We need to gauge the wider perspective. Director Ravi Jadhav put together a biopic of a tamasha folk artist who had to undergo the ordeal of social banishment, constant humiliation and harrowing acts of cruelty only because of his love for the art.Ītul Kulkarni, who played the role of an effeminate dancer in Natrang, feels just one film is not responsible to bring out the change or define the decade but multiple factors are involved in it. The decade witnessed a major surge of content, which arguably began with Natrang in 2010. The past few years saw Marathi cinema bringing out films merged with social reforms, sensibilities and laced with cultural intricacies. From Kunku in 1937 to Sairat in 2016, and more in between and after, Marathi cinema has had a long-standing tradition of bringing significant social issues to the fore. From rolling out a path for the Indian film industry, to constantly changing the discourse of their cinema with emergence, the Marathi film industry has surely come a long way.
