Such a kind of cinema needs to be celebrated & it's high time that Marathi Cinema gets its due acclaim & admiration. The director makes you feel the weight of Nana's pain & suffering. Even though the plot is melodramatic & you would have seen similar plots of aging Parents suffering in the hands of their children in movies like Baghbaan, Avatar and many more, Mahesh Manjarekar's Natsamrat hits you the hardest. The story telling is refined, to-the-point & touches you to the core. The film is an ode to the theater greats from V V Shirwadkar to Shakespeare. The director, Mahesh Manjrekar needs a serious applause for steering the ship such beautifully. Mrunmayee Deshpande, Neha Pendse, Sunil Barve play their parts well. The romance between Anna & Kaveri is ethereal. Sheer brilliance! Medha Manjrekar as Kaveri Ganpat Belwalkar is serene. What a camaraderie! It's like watching Sachin & Ganguly bat together. The scenes of Nana & Vikram Gokhale are the life of this movie. This movie will be a milestone for this 'Best Man in the Marathi theater'. The sequence on his deathbed when Gokhale recites lines from the Mahabharat gave me goosebumps. The veteran actor plays the role with such a conviction that in few scenes he given even Nana Patekar a run for his money. Vikaram Gokhale as Rambhau is superlative. Nana Patekar, should, with due authority, be rechristened as 'Natasamrat Nana Patekar' after this performance. He has portrayed this character with such a proficiency that you leave the cinema hall with a reverence to the phenomenon called Nana Patekar! As Amitabh Bachchan is the 'Shenshah'& so is Shahrukh the 'King Khan'. You laugh when he cracks the jokes & you cry when he suffers. 'Natsamrat' in literal sense means the 'The King of Actors' & this man makes you realize that he indeed is amongst the best in Indian cinema. He owns this movie with unmatched conviction. Nana Patekar is outstanding as Ganpat Belwalkar. This movie leaves you with moist eyes & a scratched soul.

The agony of the lead character is heartbreaking and the story telling is path-breaking.

Natsamrat is one such astonishing piece of cinema! A screen adaptation of Kusumagraj's iconic Marathi play 'Natsamrat', this movie takes us through the life of a veteran theater actor named Ganpat 'Appa' Belwalkar (Nana Patekar), the fame & stardom during his heydays & the tragic upturn of his life after his retirement. Some movies go beyond the visuals, the dialogues, the script & even the actors to make an ineffaceable mark on your memory lane.

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