control.Chintoo, the movie, has its origins in the famous Marathi comic strip of the same name that appears in Sakal (and Loksatta earlier) newspaper.The brainchild of creators Charuhas Pandit and Prabhakar Wadekar, Chintoo who made his debut on the silver screen last week is perhaps the first Marathi film to be based on a comic strip character.In what is a vacation gift for all Chintoo lovers, the...
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editor-in-chief of Marathi daily Deshonnati was Tuesday arrested in connection with the murder of a former employee of the newspapers printing press,...
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Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has been conferred the Maharashtrian of the Year award by Marathi newspaper Lokmat....
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late Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackerays favourite newspapers Saamna (in Marathi) and Dopahar Ka Saamna (in Hindi) sported black front pages as a mark of mourning for the second consecutive day...
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day before candidates can begin filing their nominations for the BMC polls, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray urged all political parties to field only Marathi candidates and not appease migrant voters.Speaking at the Idea Exchange organised by Loksatta, the Marathi daily of The Indian Express Group, Thackeray broached his pet topic of the conflict between migrants and locals and...
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Meet this group which dared to tread the less-taken path to send its message against corruption.They washed the national flag with Gangajal at a dhobi ghat in a symbolic gesture of cleansing the nation of the corruption stain.Activists of Loksatta party held the novel protest at the Vasanthnagar dhobi ghat on Monday. Loksatta member Bijoy Nair said Loksatta chose the dhobi ghat because "that's where...
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spokesperson NVSS Prabhakar made an appeal to TDP, TRS, YSR Congress Party and Loksatta Party to back Sangma....
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a filmmaker whose surname sounds non-Marathi, makes his directorial debut with a Marathi film, he is bound to attract surprised eyeballs. That’s exactly what directorYou are not Marathi. How come you decided to direct a Marathi film for your debut?I am a Marathi. My surname might be non-Marathi but, I speak the language. Besides, there’s no rule that you have to be Marathi to make a Marathi film. I...
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Social activist Anna Hazare on Friday reiterated his stand of not contesting elections, saying that by doing so he would lose all his savings as voters get influenced by money and liquor.Speaking at a programme organised by a leading Marathi daily Loksatta, Anna said, “I feel I should contest elections, but if I do so, I will lose my deposit I will not do so.”“Voters are not alert,” Hazare said. “An...
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Bhaskar group, one of the biggest media group in the country, launched its second edition of Marathi daily called Divya Marathi in Nashik...
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