Valu (film)

Valu
Valu
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni
Written by	Girish Kulkarni; Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni
Produced by	Ganpat Kothari; Girish Kulkarni; Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni; Prashant Pethe ; Nitin Vaidya
Starring	Atul Kulkarni; Mohan Agashe; Bharati Achrekar; Dilip Prabhavalkar; Nirmiti Sawant; Amruta Subhash; Girish Kulkarni; Vrishasen Dabholkar
Cinematography	Sudheer Palsane
Music by	Mangesh Dhakde (Theme music)
Release date	25 January 2008;
Running time	135 minutes
Country	India
Language	Marathi
Box office	₹3.5 crore (US$420,000) (lifetime)

Valu is a 2008 Indian comedy Marathi film directed by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni. The film featured in various international film festivals as The Wild Bull.^[1] It also became the first Marathi film to be selected in Rotterdam International Film Festival 2008, the Netherlands.^[3]^[4]

Plot

In the small village of Kusavde, there is a lonely misunderstood wild bull. The bull, "Valu", is actually a holy, consecrated bull which is the responsibility of the village. It is allowed to roam free and is the responsibility of the entire village. But lately, Valu becomes very aggressive and is blamed for every single act of chaos and destruction that happens in and around the village. Now, catching the bull becomes equivalent to establishing power in the village for the leaders and for those who are interested in the fringe benefits.

The film intertwines various stories of the war between the two leaders; love stories that bloom in the midst of the adventure; an amateur filmmaker who struggles to shoot a documentary; the forest officer who leads this chaos like a sacred mission along with the religious priest; the tricksters and an insane woman who seems to understand the mind of Valu.

Cast

Atul Kulkarni as Swanand Gaddamwar aka "Foresht"
Mohan Agashe as Sarapanch
Bharati Achrekar as Sarapanch's Wife
Girish Kulkarni as Jeevan
Veena Jamkar as Tani
Dilip Prabhavalkar as Pandit
Nirmiti Sawant as Pandit's Wife
Nandu Madhav as Aaba
Renuka Daftardar as Aaba's Wife
Mangesh Satpute as Shiva
Amruta Subhash as Sangi
Satish Tare as Satya
Chandrakant Gokhale as Aaja
Jyoti Subhash as Sakhubai
Shrikant Yadav as Suresh
Ashwini Giri as Suresh' Wife
Deepak Alegaonkar as Shivai's Father
Rajesh More as Sangi's father
Meghana Vaidya as Sangi's Mother
Siddheshwar Zadbuke as Popat
Prashant Tapaswi as Shankrya
Nikhil Raut as Ganya
Vrishasen Dabholkar as Sameer aka "Documentary"
Ashok Kulkarni as Jagnade
Pournima Ganu as Gaddam's Wife
Sharavi Kulkarni as Sampi
Aditya Kulkarni as Sampat
Raja (bull) as Valu

Selection in Film Festivals

5th Asian Film Festival, 2007 Pune: Selected for screening as a closing film for the festival.^[5]
37th Rotterdam International Film Festival, 2008 the Netherlands ^[3]
24th Warsaw International Film Festival, 2008 Poland
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 2008 Czech Republic
Reykjavik International Film Festival, 2008 Iceland
Warsaw International FilmFest, 2008 Poland
La Rochelle International Film Festival, 2010 France

Awards and achievements

Best Director: Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni, Best Cinematographer: Sudhir Palsane (Pune International Film Festival 2008)^[6]
Best Eye-Catching Film of the Year, Best Supporting Actor: Girish Kulkarni (Zee Gaurav Awards 2008)
Best Film of 2008, Best Director: Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni Maharashtra Times Awards - MaTa Sanman 2008)

References

^ ^a ^b "Release dates". IMDB. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
^ "Marathi cinema in high gear". 28 June 2008.
^ ^a ^b Mane, Anuradha (25 January 2008). "Valu trots to Rotterdam". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 26 January 2013. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
^ "Marathi film Valu-The Wild Bull premieres at Rotterdam". Indian Express. 31 January 2008. Archived from the original on 10 December 2008. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
^ "Asian film festival opens in Pune". Times of India. 2 November 2007. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
^ "Pune International Film Festival". www.piffindia.com. Retrieved 28 November 2019.

External links

[International-1] "Release dates". IMDB. Retrieved 3 January 2012.

[2] "Marathi cinema in high gear". 28 June 2008.

[Holland-3] Mane, Anuradha (25 January 2008). "Valu trots to Rotterdam". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 26 January 2013. Retrieved 3 January 2012.

[Rotterdam-4] "Marathi film Valu-The Wild Bull premieres at Rotterdam". Indian Express. 31 January 2008. Archived from the original on 10 December 2008. Retrieved 3 January 2012.

[5] "Asian film festival opens in Pune". Times of India. 2 November 2007. Retrieved 3 January 2012.

[6] "Pune International Film Festival". www.piffindia.com. Retrieved 28 November 2019.

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