Before After Entertainment’s Funral (Marathi) is the story of four friends who are jobless but one day start a new business which clicks.
Heera (Aroh Welankar), Surya (Harshad Shinde), Vinod (Parth Ghatge) and Sada (Siddhesh Pujare) are friends. Heera is an orphan who lives with his grandfather (Vijay Kenkre). Since they are jobless, they start a business which runs into losses. One day, they hit upon the idea of starting a business of organising the funerals of people who have no close relatives around when they die.
But one incident forces Heera to leave his home and cut off ties with his grandfather. What happens thereafter?
Ramesh Dighe’s story and screenplay are quite silly. The drama has a little bit of comedy and some emotions too but they are simply not enough. Dighe’s dialogues are ordinary.
Aroh Welankar does well as Heera. Harshad Sinde is okay as Surya. Parth Ghatge is alright in the role of Vinod. Siddhesh Pujare is fair as Sada. Tanvi Barse (as Heera’s girlfriend, Minal) has been wasted. Vijay Kenkre lends reasonable support as Heera’s grandfather. Prematai Sakhardande performs ably as More aaji. Sambhaji Bhagat (as Kachru) and Ajit Kelkar (as Minal’s father) lend average support.
Vivek Dubey’s direction is so-so. Advait Nemlekar’s music and background score are weak. Akshay Shinde’s lyrics are dull. Anurag Solanki’s camerawork is fair. Art direction (Mahesh Salgaonkar and Manohar Jadhav) is alright. Nilesh Gavand’s editing is okay.
On the whole, Funral is a flop show.
Released on 10-6-’22 at Glamour (daily 1 show) and other cinemas of Bombay thru Panorama Studios. Publicity & opening: poor.