''Classmates'' is a 2015 Indian

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-language

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film directed by

Aditya Sarpotdar Aditya Sarpotdar is an Indian director and costume designer best known for the 2015 film Classmates (2015 film), ''Classmates''. His first movie as a director was ''Uladhaal'', starring Ankush Chaudhari and Subodh Bhave. Personal life Aditya ...

and starring Ankush Choudhary,

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Sachit Patil Sachit Patil is an Indian actor, director, writer and theatre director. He is known for his work in Marathi cinema. He made his debut in the Bollywood film ''Kyon?'' (2003). He made his Marathi film debut with Avdhoot Gupte's '' Zenda'' (2010), ...

, Tushar Kamble,

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, and

Siddharth Chandekar Siddharth Chandekar (born 14 June 1991) is an Indian actor. He is known for his work in Marathi cinema. At the age of 18, he made his debut in Marathi cinema with Avadhoot Gupte's 2010 political drama movie ''Zenda (film), Zenda''. Career Chan ...

. The film is a

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of the 2006 Malayalam film of the same name. It is the fourth highest grossing Marathi Film of the year 2015. And also one of the highest grossing Marathi Film of all time.

Cast

* Ankush Choudhary as Satya *

as Appu *

as Rohit *

as Aditi * Sushant Shelar as Pratap *

as Ani *

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as Amit *

Pallavi Patil Pallavi Patil is an Indian actress. She debuted with the Marathi film ''Classmates'', Patil has starred in several Marathi films including ''702 Dixit's'', ''Shentimental,'' and ''Tu Tithe Asave'' and John Abraham's Marathi film production ''S ...

as Heena *

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as Samar Raje Nimbalkar * Raju Pandit *

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as Rohit's father *

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as College Principal and Mother of Ani

Plot

Satya is a last-year student and a college leader from the Yuva Shakti Party. Ani is a

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who is Satya's friend. Aditi Nimbalkar is the niece of a politician. Appu is a rough girl and Satya's right hand. She loves Satya. Rohit is also a last year student and a swimmer. Ani has an ambition to build music section in college. In the beginning, Satya and Aditi hate each other but later, they fall in love with each other. During this, elections begin and Rohit decides that Aditi is going to oppose Satya in elections. The turning point of the story is Ani's death.

Soundtrack

Music of the film is composed by

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, Troy Arif, Avinash-Vishwajeet and Pankaj Padghan with lyrics are penned by Mandar Cholkar, Satyajeet Ranade,

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and

Kshitij Patwardhan Kshitij Patwardhan (born 11 January 1985) is an Indian screenwriter, theatre director, playwright, and lyricist. He received Filmfare award for best screenplay in 2018, Filmfare award for best lyrics in 2020, along with the prestigious Tarun Tej ...

. The first single from the film "Teri Meri Yaariyan" was released on

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on 7 November 2014. The second song "Bindhast Bedhadak" was released on 24 November 2014 on 9x Jhakaas.

Track listing

Reception

Mihir Bhanage of ''

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'' opined that "On the whole, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that 2015 has started on a high note with the first two releases pulling crowd to theatres and living up to the expectations. We hope the trend continues and we have more gems to watch on the silver screen." Soumitra Pote, writing for the ''

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'', wrote that "The most important thing is the artist. All the artists worked hard. Overall, this movie is made using all kinds of spices. Sufficient expenditure has been made for this. He dyes. But there is not much innovation in it. As Mahashi puts it, when you walk out of the theater, you feel like you have seen per worldliness" ''

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'' wrote "All the artists have portrayed their personalities in a good way. Good acting is the strength of this film."

References

External links

* {{Lal Jose 2015 films Marathi remakes of Malayalam films Indian buddy films 2010s Marathi-language films Films directed by Aditya Sarpotdar