''Sarkarnama'' is an Indian Marathi film directed by Shravani Deodhar released in

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in 1998. This movie is famous for the powerful performances of

Dilip Prabhavalkar Dilip Prabhavalkar (born 4 August 1944) is an Indian Marathi actor, director, playwright and author. He has a career spanning over four decades in Hindi and Marathi theatre, television and movies. He was awarded the National Film Award for Best ...

and Yashwant Dutt as political rivals.

Plot

The film revolves around day-to-day political issues and corruption, centering on how some leaders make their money and lend support. Vishwas Salunkhe ( Ajinkya Deo) is a municipal assistant commissioner who is in charge of a

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sub area where many chawl are in poor condition and he has posted notices to vacate those " Saptatara" where slabs and floors are partly collapsed and chawl-dwellers are not ready to vacate and chawl owners are not responding to the notices. Salunkhe is not giving up on this issue, and Chief Minister Uttamrao Deshmukh (Yashvant Dutt), a chawl owner contact who has strong influence with him as a subscriber for the election fund, takes this issue seriously. Deshmukh calls Salunkhe and asks for the ''Saptatara'' file where all notices and documents are kept and hands him a special order to look after civil work in his future daughter-in-law's village's power supply. Salunkhe accepts the order and takes up duty at the village where he finds some residents, as their ancestral is being sold for electric towers and they become jobless, are opposing the order. Meanwhile, Salunkhe receives news that Saptatara have collapsed. He immediately returns to Mumbai where he learns case file has vanished from the CM's office, but that the CM kept a copy in the bungalow where his son's marriage is taking place, as news correspondents Vaijayanti Patil ( Ashwini Bhave) and Subodh Gore ( Ashutosh Govarikar) come to cover the story of the event. Salunkhe asks his fiancée (Sukanya Kulkarni- Mone) to steal the file from CM's house and hand it over to him as he is suspended due to negligence of duties and is under depression so she agrees. While at a photo shoot Subodh Gore discovers something odd – laborers are doing odd work, such as carrying each other from one place to another. He shows this to Vaijayanti Patil, but she ignores it. Much happens in one night as the CM's daughter-in-law is kidnapped by her boyfriend and a Minister (

), who is the political rival of the CM slaughters sheep near the Ganesh mandir in a protest against the CM but Salunkhe has footage of the slaughter which he shows to the CM, but as reward the CM kills Subodh Gore and Vaijayanti Patil then takes shock of the footage when Salunkhe finds his case file and the footage is shown in the film's final Mumbai Mantralay scene.

Cast

* Ajinkya Deo as Assistant Commissioner Vishwas Salunkhe *

as Minister * Yashwant Dutt as Chief Minister Uttamrao Deshmukh *

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as Minister's son Kumar Deshmukh * Ashwini Bhave as Lokdhara Press Reporter Vaijayanti Patil * Jagdish Patankar as Vikram Joshi Police Inspector * Ravi Boratkar as Vidarbha social worker * Ashutosh Gowarikar as Shabda Communication Proprietor Subodh Gore *

Prateeksha Lonkar Prateeksha Lonkar is an Indian actress who mostly appeared in Hindi and Marathi films and television series. She is best known for playing the lead title role in the Marathi TV serial ''Damini'', that aired on DD Sahyadri. Early life Lonkar's ...

as Kumar's future wife Suchitra Patwardhan * Upendra Limaye as Pandal (Mandap) Contractor/ Decorater Sapkale * Anand Abhyankar as Lokdhara Editor Kshirsagar *

Yatin Karyekar Yatin Karyekar is a veteran Indian actor in the Bollywood film industry. He was also part of long running television serial ''Shanti (TV series), Shanti''. He appeared in the role of Aurangzeb in popular Marathi serial Raja Shivchhatrapati. ...

as Anna PA Shrinivas Gokhale *

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as Uttamrao Deshmukh Wife * Shrikant Moghe as Patwardhan Suchitra's Father * Sharvari Jamenis as Pratiksha Lonkar's friend Smita *

Nandu Madhav Nandu Madhav is an Indian actor known for his works in Marathi cinema and theatre. He is known for the his titular role in Paresh Mokashi's ''Harishchandrachi Factory'' which won the Best Feature Film in Marathi award in the 56th National Fi ...

as Smita's brother Chander *

Makarand Anaspure Makarand Madhukar Anaspure (Marathi pronunciation: əkəɾən̪d̪ ənaːspuɾe born 22 July 1969) is an Indian actor, director and producer. He has primarily appeared in Marathi films and theater. Career Anaspure came to fame after having ...

as Chander's close pal Natha * Sharad Vyas as Saptatara owner Mansukh Sharma * Sukanya Kulkarni as Vishwas Salunkhe's fiance * Haider Ali as Ajinkya Dev's office mate Srivastav *

Jayant Savarkar Jayant Savarkar (born May 3, 1936) is an actor who works in Marathi and Hindi theater, television, and films. He was awarded the Natvarya Prabhakar Panshikar Lifetime Achievement Award by the Government of Maharashtra in the field of theater. ...

as Shripatrao Jamkhedkar

Music

*"Alawar Tuzhi Chahool" (version 1) - Kavita Krishnamurthy *"Alwar Tuzhi Chahool" (version 2) - Nobina Mirjankar *"Mazya Swapnana Sath" - Nobina Mirjankar,

Suresh Wadkar Suresh Ishwar Wadkar (born 7 August 1955) is an Indian playback singer. He performs in both Hindi and Marathi films. He has sung songs in some Bhojpuri films, Odia albums and bhajans and in Konkani films. He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Aka ...

*"Sasari Lek Nighali" - Nobina Mirjankar, Jayashri Shivram *"Zakolala Zakolala" (Theme) - Ravindra Sathe

Recognition

* 1998, won

Filmfare Award The Filmfare Awards are annual awards that honour artistic and technical excellence in the Hindi-language film industry of India.Al The Filmfare ceremony is one of the most famous film events in India. The awards were first introduced by th ...

* 1998, won

Screen Award The Screen Awards is an annual awards ceremony held in India honouring professional excellence in Bollywood. The nomination and award selection is done by a panel of distinguished professionals from the industry. The awards were introduced by t ...

* 1998, won

Maharashtra State Film Award Maharashtra State Film Awards, one of the prestigious awards of Marathi cinema, are awarded by the Government of Maharashtra to Marathi language films and artists. They were first awarded in 1963. Winners 2000 This year's award ceremony took pla ...

* 1998, nominated for V. Shantaram Award

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 0430567, Sarkarnama 1990s Marathi-language films Films directed by Shrabani Deodhar Films scored by Anand Modak