Swaraj Film Production’s Varhadi Vajantri (Marathi) is the story of a match-maker. After completing 99 marriages, he gets his 100th marriage to arrange. But it is a very tough task. The comedy that follows when he tries to complete his century is the crux of the drama.
Vaibhav Arjun Parab’s story and screenplay are designed to make people laugh but the comedy in the drama entertains only at places. This is the biggest drawback. Even his dialogues don’t befit an intended laugh riot.
Mohan Joshi performs ably. Makarand Anaspure is good. Reema acts ably. Pandharinath Kamble does a fine job. Hemangi Kavi performs well. Vijay Kadam, Priya Berde, Jaywant Wadkar, Purnima Ahire and Rajesh Chitnis provide decent support. Prabhakar More, Sunil Godbole, Vinit Bonde, Ganesh Revdekar, Ananda Karekar, Shivaji Redkar, Sakshi Paranjape and Prashant Tapsvi are adequate.
Vijay Patkar’s direction is average. He has not been able to make a laugh riot which the film ought to have been. Avinash Vishwajeet and Shashank Powar’s music is ordinary. Rajesh Bamgude’s lyrics are okay. Umesh Jadhav and Rajesh Bidwe’s choreography hardly deserves separate mention. Ravindra Kharat’s background music is fair. Shailesh Awasthi’s camerawork is quite good. Girish Kolapkar’s art direction is ordinary. Editing (Hemant Gaikwad and Saloni Kulkarni) leaves something to be desired.
On the whole, Varhadi Vajantri is a flop film.
Released on 11-11-’22 at Cinepolis Bhandup (daily 1 show) and other cinemas of Bombay by UJM Networks N Entertainment LLP thru August Entertainment. Publicity & opening: poor.
