Jayanti (transl. "birth anniversary") is a 2021 Indian Marathi-language social-drama film, directed by Shailesh Baliram Narwade and produced by Meliorist Film Studio. The film, starring Ruturaj Wankhede, Titeeksha Tawde and Milind Shinde, was theatrically released on 12 November 2021 in around 150 screens across Maharashtra and a few cities in other states. Jayanti was released digitally on 12 July 2022 and is streaming on Amazon Prime Video in Marathi and Hindi languages with English subtitles.

The film has been co-produced by Dr Anand Bankar, Amol Dhakadey, Dr Nilima Suhas Ambade and Dr Sudhir Hajare. It was presented by Dashami Studioz.

Cast

• Ruturaj Wankhede as Santya/Santosh
• Titeeksha Tawde as Pallavi
• Milind Shinde as Ashok Mali
• Anjali Joglekar as Vatsala
• Vira Sathidar as Shrikant Mogre
• Amar Upadhyay as Vikas Kukreja
• Kishor Kadam as MLA Gondane
• Pandharinath Kamble as Dinesh Sathe
• Atul Mahale as Shambhu
• Saurabh Biramwar as Rahul
• Shubham Gautam as Shubham
• Akshay Khobragade as Chhotu
• Chetan Gadbail as Surya
• Pushpak Bhat as Rafiq
• Sneha Khandare as Safina
• Vibha Gajbhiye as Vandana
• Chetan Wagh as Munna
• Abhilash Yadav as Gajju
• Vaishali Dahake
• Piyush Wankhede
• Rutuja Wankhede
• Shubhangi Raut
• Rikesh Joshi
• Kiran Kashinath
• Ashwin Naik
• Mangesh Shirpurkar
• Niraj Jamgade (Michael)
• Pradeep Ronghe
• Amruta Koli
• Vinod Raut
• Omkar Landge
• Nagesh Burbure
• Nasir Rehman Shaikh
• Aditya Deshmukh
• Sahil Kene
• Prabhakar Shinde
• Pravin Shende
• Pranay Karande
• Saurabh Indorkar
• Swapnil Khairkar
• Gajanan Bakade
• Sanjay Chouhan
• RJ Bhavna

Reception

Jayanti was the first Marathi feature film to release in cinema halls after Covid19-related lockdown. The film started slow but got momentum in the third and fourth week due to word of mouth and completed 50 days in theatres. After watching the film, thousands of people took to social media to express their liking for the film. A few shows were also organized in United States of America, United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. The film had a week's theatrical run in Kuwait.

In the reviews, Mihir Bhange of The Times of India said Jayanti is a story of human emotions and it conveys it convincingly.

Yogesh Pawar wrote in The Fress Press Journal that it's a Jayanti of solutions!

Yogesh Maitreya wrote in News9Live that Shailesh Narwade's Jayanti is a spiritual successor to Nagraj Manjule's Fandry.

Harish Wankhede wrote in The Quint that Jayanti is a much-needed story in a world of upper-class heroes.

Soundtrack

Soundtrack of the film is composed by Ruhi and Mangesh Dhakde. Video of track "Tula Vandnyachi" sung by Javed Ali was released in October 2021.^[2]

References

External links

• Jayanti at IMDb