Panorama Studios, Prakash Films, Cult Digital and Pune Film Company’s Tujhya Aaila (Marathi; A) is about a game which children in a school in Satara play. Avinash (Soham Babar) comes to Satara with his father, Arun Deshpande (Abhijit Thite), and mother, Asmita (Rajshri Deshpande). Avinash sees children playing the ‘Tujhya Aaila’ game. Two can play the game and each one tells the other ‘Tujhya Aaila’ followed by another word. If a player doesn’t get the appropriate last word or uses an already used word as the last word, he loses the game. Avinash notices that Khandya (Abhishek Zhende) always wins the game. Khandya wins against Avinash’s friend, Devya (Hrishikesh Wankhde), too.
One day, Avinash plans to use such a last word that Khandya would lose the game. Does he use it to defeat Khandya? Or does he not?
Niyaz Mujawar’s story is silly and so is his screenplay. Although it is sought to be proven that Khandya wins the game because he has a book of swear words, the fact is that swear words are never used in the game. Hence the audience wonder what the writer is trying to establish by showing Khandya to be in possession of a book of swear words. Niyaz Mujawar’s screenplay is slightly better than the story. His dialogues are okay.
Soham Babar is good as Ainash. Abhijit Thite does an average job as Arun Deshpande. Rajshri Deshpande is so-so as Asmita. Hrishikesh Wankhede acts ably as Devya. Jaid Shaikh lends routine support as Chand. Abhishek Zhende leaves a mark as Khandya. Malhar Dandage acts routinely in the role of Narya. Pramod Pawar is fair as Dattaji. Rohini Hattangady has her moments as Avinash’s grandmother. Anuya Kalaskar-Baiche is ordinary as Bhamabai. Janardan Kadam barely passes muster as Khandya’s father, Vetal. Others do as desired.
Sujay S. Dahake’s direction is passable but the insipid script lets him down. Varun Likhate’s music is average and so are Mandar Cholkar’s lyrics. Sanket Kanetkar’s background music is nothing to shout about. Vijay Mishra’s camerawork is alright. Aashay Gatade’s editing is quite sharp.
On the whole, Tujhya Aaila is a flop show.
Released on 25-9-’26 at Plaza (daily 1 show) and other cinemas of Bombay by Panorama Studios. Publicity: so-so. Opening: poor.