Dilip Prabhawalkar

Govind Kulkarni is a Pune based, middle class family man. After a large scale celebration of Ganeshotsav for his aging father, Govind finds himself in a huge amount of debt and facing social ridicule. In desperation he appeals to Lord Ganesha to come to his rescue and to his great surprise...he does!

Me Shivaji Park narrates the tale of 5 retired friends named Digambar Sawant, Vikram Rjyadhyaksh, Dilip Pradhan, Rustum Mistry, and Satish Joshi. All of them are regular joggers at Shivaji Park. They spend the leisure time having heart-to-heart conversations about their families and discussing current affairs. As the story unfolds, Satish's granddaughter dies after falling from the balcony. There are several rumours doing the rounds regarding her death, which prompts Satish and his friends to investigate about it even if they have to go on the wrong side of the law. Things become difficult when Dilip doesn't agree and stands as an obstacle in their way. Will Satish and friends be able to solve the mystery around the death?

A father of 10 year old boy is struggling to buy new school uniform for his son. Son is selected for to deliver a speech before State minister on the occasion of countries independence day. With the struggle of father, story shows the struggle of common peoples of country in the light of social, economical and political influences.

Ramachandra Purushottam Joshi is based on the director`s own play -Shraddha, that narrates the story of a dead man, who is permitted by Yama to revisit his family for eight hours as a bonus offer from the doors of hell.

Narba lives a simple life taking care of his beautiful grove, but he finds himself in trouble when a greedy landlord sets his eyes upon the land.

Deool is a multi-starrer film directed by Umesh Kulkarni and is releasing on November 4,2011. The starcast includes Dr. Mohan Agashe, Nana Patekar, Sonal Kulkarni, Dilip Prabhavalkar (who played the role of Mahatama Gandhi in Lage Raho Munnabhai), Kishor Kadam and Naseeruddin Shah (who makes his Marathi film debut with this film) among other actors. The film is about the effect of corporotisation of temple`s and pilgrimage places. The film has largely been shot in Satara district of Maharashtra.

Morya is based on the backdrop of community Ganapati festival celebrations.

Set against the backdrop of issues like poverty, debt and farmer`s suicides in rural Maharashtra, Jhing Chik Jhing is a story about Mauli (Bharat Jadhav), a poor farmer under heavy debt. Mauli owns a small plot of land in a village, where he grows cotton. His son Shyam is good at his studies and has aspirations of his own, but he is empathetic towards the family`s difficulty. At school Shyam hears about a sack-race, the prize for which is Rs. 10,000, the exact amount of the debt. He prepares himself for the race, supported by his sister and best friend. Will he succeed?

Bokya Satbande is loosely based on three stories, taken from a book written by Dilip Prabhavalkar who also features in the movie. The movie revolves around Bokya, a ten-year old boy whose care-free childhood is the highlight of the film.

When Anita Rajan (Aishwarya Rai - Bachchan), brings a power plant proposal to set up in rural Maharashtra, Shankar (Abhishek Bachchan) is quick to realize the benefits the power plant can bring to the people. Shankar's dream project gradually becomes a political minefield, it is in this backdrop the evil forces mightier than ever gang up to bring down the regime of Sarkar and obliterate Shankar's name from the political horizon.

Full 3 Dhamaal is a super comedy movie. Three friends (Priya Berde, Suchitra Bandekar, Kishori Godbole), tied to their family duties after marriage, meet and decide to spend their life as before while their husbands are away. Mahesh Kothare is known for his intelligence in direction. The same outcome is expected from Full 3 Dhamaal as well.

After accidentally killing a young mobster, a guilt-stricken police officer searches for the parents who never came forward to claim their son's body. Inspector Sam Bharucha (Naseeruddin Shah) is an honest and diligent Police Inspector. He frequently comes across youth gangs, calling themselves "bhai". He also has marital problems with his son himself calling himself a "bhai", and associating with criminal elements. One day during one of this patrols, there is a shoot-out between a youth gang and his police party. A number of youth are killed. Various family members come forward to claim the deceased bodies of the youth, save for one. This intrigues Bharucha, and he sets out to find out why. He gets an anonymous message from a caller, calling himself Poonappa Awade (Dilip Prabhawalkar). Bharucha meets up with Poonappa, but doubts his credibility, as Poonappa confides in his him that the dead body of the youth belongs to a very rich and influential family. When Bharucha meets with the alleged parents of the youth, he is told that their son is abroad, in America. Bharucha has now to decide whether it the parents or Poonappa who is telling the truth. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

A family takes a person with disabilities under their wing and encourages him to develop his skills while the family members deal with their own instabilities. A happy family comprising of Rajan Ketkar, his wife Meenal and their daughter Rani reside in a society where Durgamaushi and her mentally deranged son Nandu stay. One day, Meenal realizes that Nandu is her childhood friend and she is filled with compassion for him which doesn't sit well with Rajan. For his benefit, Meenal admits Nandu into a rehabilitation center. The Ketkars visit the Centre for a function where Nandu upon seeing Meenal after a long time, gets restless and runs away. Durgamaushi is taken ill is hospitalized while Nandu roams the streets of Mumbai. After the police bring him home, Durgamaushi passes away. Nandu is now orphaned and he comes to Meenal for support. Rajan is not ready to accept him and objects strongly, but after noticing his innocence, agrees to adopt him. They encourage his interest in painting for which Nandu attains fame as an artist of international repute. —Everest Entertainment