Vivek Films and Mayasabha Karamnuk Mandali’s Mukkam Post Bombilwadi (Marathi) is a comedy.
It is set in 1942 when the World War II is being fought between Hitler’s (Prashant Damle) Germany and Winston Churchill’s (Anand Ingale) Britain. By mistake, Hitler lands his aeroplane in Bombilwadi village of Konkan. He hides in a trunk in the police station there. Bombilwadi has a theatre group headed by Varvante (Vaibhav Mangale). Vaidya Buwa (Sunil Abhyankar) and Bhaskar (Pranav Raorane), who are part of the theatre group, have made a bomb to blow up the police station but the bomb is a failure. Anyway, Vaidya Buwa takes police station head, inspector Cook (Adwait Dadarkar), along with him to watch a stage-play. Vaidya Buwa takes the trunk from the police station as it contains the costumes. In that trunk is hidden Hitler. The theatre group is shocked out of its wits when Hitler comes out of the trunk. The madness which follows thereafter is what the latter part of the drama is about.
The story is based on Paresh Mokashi’s stage-play of the same name. It is very far-fetched but Mokashi’s screenplay is interesting and engaging. No doubt, the story has been taken to absurd heights, but the drama is so comical that it offers entertainment to the viewers. Paresh Mokashi’s dialogues are appealing and create comedy.
Prashant Damle does an excellent job as Hitler. Vaibhav Mangale is superb as Varvante. Manmeet Pem acts ably as Babban. Pranav Raorane performs well as Bhaskar. Ritika Shrotri lends nice support as Kundalini. Geetanjali Kulkarni has her moments as Varvante Kaku. Sunil Abhyankar is good in the role of Vaidya Buwa. Adwait Dadarkar is okay as police inspector Cook. Ganesh Mayekar does a fair job as hawaldar Bhairav. Anand Ingale makes a fine impression as Winston Churchill although he gets limited scope. Deepti Lele is alright as Eva Brown. Rajesh Mapuskar has his moments as Geobbels. Others lend the necessary support.
Paresh Mokashi’s direction is nice. Tanmay Bhide’s music is good. The film has only one (title) song. Paresh Mokashi’s lyrics are okay. Rahul Thombare’s song picturisations are alright. Tanmay Bhide’s background music is effective. Satyajit Shobha Shriram’s camerawork is above average. Santosh Phutane’s production designing is proper. Abhijeet Deshpande’s editing is crisp.
On the whole, Mukkam Post Bombilwadi is an entertaining fare and will do well at the box-office once it picks up by positive word of mouth, which is bound to happen.
Released on 1-1-’25 at Plaza (daily 2 shows) and other cinemas of Bombay thru PVR Inox Pictures. Publicity: so-so. Opening: average because of an odd-day release and also because a lot of people have New Year’s Eve’s hangover and hence do not frequent cinemas.
