Navra Maza Navsacha

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{{Short description|2004 Marathi language film}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Navra Maza Navsacha नवरा माझा नवसाचा
| caption =
| image =
| director = [[Sachin Pilgaonkar]]
| producer = Sachin Pilgaonkar
| writer =
| screenplay = Sachin Pilgaonkar Santosh Pawar
| story = Sachin Pilgaonkar
| based_on =
| starring = [[Sachin Pilgaonkar]] [[Supriya Pilgaonkar]] [[Ashok Saraf]] Sunil Tawde [[Nirmiti Sawant]] [[Kishori Shahane]] Pradeep Patwardhan Jaywant Wadkar [[Vijay Patkar]]
| narrator =
| music = Jitendra Kulkarni
| cinematography = Sanjay Memane
| editing =
| studio =
| distributor =
| released = November 2004 ([[Maharashtra]])
| runtime = 140 minutes
| country = [[India]]
| language = [[Marathi language|Marathi]]
| budget =
| gross =
}}

'''Navra Maza Navsacha''' (translation: ''My Husband Is Born From A Divine Vow'') is a [[List of Marathi films of 2004|2004]] [[Cinema of India|Indian]] [[Marathi language|Marathi]]-language slapstick [[Comedy film|comedy]] [[Road film|road]] film directed and produced by [[Sachin Pilgaonkar]] under the production banner of Kittu Films. Released in [[Maharashtra]] in November 2004, the film stars an [[ensemble cast]] of [[Sachin Pilgaonkar]], [[Supriya Pilgaonkar]], [[Ashok Saraf]], Sunil Tawde, [[Nirmiti Sawant]], [[Kishori Shahane]], Pradeep Patwardhan, Jaywant Wadkar and [[Vijay Patkar]]. The film follows a childless couple travelling from [[Mumbai]] to Ganapatipule through a state transport bus to fulfill an unfulfilled vow but things take a turn when they get involved with an international smuggler. <ref name="blogspot">{{cite web|url=http://cinema-baghu-ya.blogspot.in/2010/08/navra-maza-navsacha.html|title=बघू हा सिनेमा ?: नवरा माझा नवसाचा (Navra maza navsacha)|publisher=cinema-baghu-ya.blogspot.in|accessdate=2014-06-01}}</ref> <ref name="indianexpress">{{cite web|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/the-remake-saga/1073397/ |title=The Remake Saga - Indian Express |publisher=archive.indianexpress.com |accessdate=2014-06-01}}</ref> [[Sachin Pilgaonkar]] remade the film in [[Kannada language|Kannada]] in 2007 as ''[[Ekadantha]]''. The plot of the film is based on ''[[Bombay to Goa]]'' (1972), which itself was a remake of [[Tamil language|Tamil]] film ''Madras to Pondicherry'' (1966).<ref>http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/the-remake-saga/1073397/1</ref>

==Plot==
Vakratund ([[Sachin Pilgaonkar]]), also known as Vacky, and Bhakti ([[Supriya Pilgaonkar]]) are a childless couple having got married against Bhakti's parents' wishes. Vacky is a talented artist but has not achieved commercial success despite 10 years of marriage. Soon, Bhakti learns from Vacky's paternal aunt, Atya ([[Nirmiti Sawant]]), that Vacky's parents had made a vow to Lord Ganesha after the loss of their three newborn children that they will bring their son to the [[temple]] of Ganapatipule "unclothed" if he is born healthy. However, the vow was left unfulfilled as Vacky's parents died young out of ecstacy of finally being blessed with a healthy son. Shocked at learning this, Bhakti persuades Vacky to fulfill the vow but he soberly disagrees to comply with her wishes for the task being next to impossible. In an attempt of overcome Bhakti's insistence, Vacky and his childhood friend, Kishore ([[Atul Parchure]]), hire a small-time television actor (Satish Tare) to act as powerful sage "Ughade Baba" in front of Bhakti. Ughade Baba instructs Vacky and Bhakti to take a mannequin dressed as Vacky to the temple of Ganapatipule unclothed via [[Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation|state transport]] bus to fulfill the vow and enable themselves to enter parenthood.

On the previous night of Vacky and Bhakti's travel to Ganapatipule, Vacky and Kishore succeed in sneaking such a mannequin at a bus depot into a state transport bus under the backseat. However, they are unaware that after their departure from the bus that night, an unseen international smuggler, Babu Kaalia, who has escaped from prison and has stolen [[diamond]]s worth [[Indian rupee|₹]]80 [[crore]] from the [[Government of India]], had entered the bus and hidden a bag filled with the diamonds in a hollow of the mannequin. The remaining plot of the film focuses on hilarious situations and the highs and lows that Vacky and Bhakti face while travelling to Ganapatipule from the bus. The bus journey is adventurous with the passengers, a totally mixed bunch, from all over [[Maharashtra]], different lives, personalities, cultures and traditions, are all thrown together for this journey. The bus is in the "control" of bus conductor Lalu ([[Ashok Saraf]]) and bus driver Prasad (Sunil Tawde). En route, Lalu meets [[lavani]] dancer Shevanta ([[Kishori Shahane]]) during a technical problem regarding the bus and falls in love with her when she helps him solve his financial problems.

After the resumption of the journey, however, Lalu is horrified to accidentally see the mannequin under the backseat and creates havoc believing it to be a dead body. Despite this, Vacky and Bhakti together manage to convince Lalu and Prasad and the bus passengers that it is a mannequin and not a dead body and its significance for being secretly taken from the bus to Ganapatipule. Nevertheless, on finally reaching Ganapatipule, the group is shocked to be confronted by the police, who have an evidence that Babu Kaalia is travelling from the bus in disguise to escape to [[Dubai]] from the port of Ganapatipule with the diamonds stolen by him. At the same time, a mute passenger ([[Vijay Patkar]]) in the bus is revealed to be actually feigning his speech impairment for being an undercover [[inspector]] sent by the Mumbai police to identify Babu Kaalia. Throughout the journey, Vacky has been sketching a portrait of Babu Kaalia with the help of another bus passenger (Jaywant Wadkar) having encountered Babu Kaalia earlier. As soon as Vacky completes the portrait, Babu Kaalia (Pradeep Patwardhan) reveals his true identity and holds the entire bus and the police at gunpoint with the demand for the mannequin wherein the diamonds stolen by him are hidden.

At this point, Vacky confesses to Bhakti that the Ughade Baba whom she had met earlier was fake and that he had planned the drama with Kishore in order to avoid fulfilling the bizarre vow. However, Bhakti requests Vacky to take the mannequin to the temple out of her faith and devotion towards their union and Lord Ganesha. Vacky thus escapes from the bus with the mannequin and runs towards to the temple while being pursued by the gang of Babu Kaalia, the police and the bus passengers. During the persuasion, all the clothes of Vacky are torn off by the pursuers and is only left in his undergarment by the time he reaches the temple with the mannequin and locks himself inside it. In the temple, Vacky's undergarment also tears off after being entangled with the door bolt and is delighted to realise that Lord Ganesha himself has indeed fulfilled the vow by making him appear before Him unclothed. While Babu Kaalia and his gang are arrested by the police for their crimes, Vacky exits the temple in the duplicate clothes of a priest and returns the diamonds in the mannequin that were stolen by Babu Kaalia to the police. In the end, Vacky and Bhakti are rewarded with ₹8 crore by the Government of India for nabbing Babu Kaalia and live happily thereafter.

==Cast==
* [[Sachin Pilgaonkar]] as Vakratund (a.k.a. Vacky)
* [[Supriya Pilgaonkar]] as Bhakti
* [[Ashok Saraf]] as Bus Conductor Lalu
* Sunil Tawde as Bus Driver Prasad
* [[Nirmiti Sawant]] as Atya (Vacky's paternal aunt)
* [[Kishori Shahane]] as Shevanta ([[lavani]] dancer)
* Pradeep Patwardhan as Babu Kaalia (international smuggler)
* Jaywant Wadkar as Snoring bus passenger who had encountered Babu Kaalia
* [[Vijay Patkar]] as Undercover police inspector who pretends to be a mute bus passenger
* [[Atul Parchure]] as Kishore (Vacky's childhood friend)
* Satish Tare as Ughade Baba (small-time television actor who acts as a powerful saint)
* [[Vaibhav Mangle]] as Bus passenger with helmet
* Madhurani Gokhale Prabhulkar as Candy (video jockey bus passenger)
* Vikas Samudre as Bus passenger bound for Chiplun
* Vijay Patwardhan as Bus passenger who is a schoolteacher
=== Cameo Appearances ===
* [[Sonu Nigam]] as Himself
* [[Reema Lagoo]] as Sheela Raje (powerful [[politician]] in the [[Lok Sabha]])
* [[Johnny Lever]] as Bahadur ([[Nepali people|Nepali]] bus passenger)
* [[Ali Asgar (actor)|Ali Asgar]] as Film Director
* [[Kuldeep Pawar]] as Ganapatipule police inspector
* [[Anand Abhyankar]] as Temple priest
* Vinay Yedekar as Tommy (temple visitor who tries to propose to Bhakti)
<ref name="indianfilmhistory">{{cite web|url=https://www.indianfilmhistory.com/movie-details/navra-maza-navsacha|title=Navra Maza Navsacha Movie Review|publisher=www.indianfilmhistory.com}}</ref>

==Soundtrack==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!!!Track !! Singer
!Lyricist
|-
| 1 || "Chala Na Gade" ||[[Anuradha Paudwal]] [[Sachin Pilgaonkar]]
|[[Jagdish Khebudkar]]
|-
| 2 || "Hirava Nisarg Ha Bhavatine" || [[Sonu Nigam]]
|[[Jagdish Khebudkar]]
|-
| 3 || "Chala Jejuri La Jau" || Uttara Kelkar
|Traditional
|-
| 4 || "Vedshastramaji Ho Mangalmurti" || [[Anuradha Paudwal]]
|Traditional
|-
|}

==Remakes==
The film was remade in Kannada as ''[[Ekadantha]]'' starring [[Vishnuvardhan (actor)|Vishnuvardhan]], [[Prema (actress, born 1977)|Prema]] and [[Ramesh Aravind]] in the lead roles.

==Reception==
The film received good reviews.<ref name="in">{{cite web|url=http://www.in.com/tv/movies/zee-talkies-132/navra-maza-navsacha-10258.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130820120400/http://www.in.com/tv/movies/zee-talkies-132/navra-maza-navsacha-10258.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-08-20|title=Navra Maza Navsacha Movie on Zee Talkies: Navra Maza Navsacha Movie Schedule, Songs and Trailer Videos|publisher=in.com|accessdate=2014-06-01}}</ref> ''[[The Indian Express]]'' a prominent Indian daily named it as a part of a Remake Saga. In.com gave a rating of 7.3 out of 10.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0833510}}

[[Category:2004 films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Marathi-language films]]
[[Category:Marathi films remade in other languages]]
[[Category:Marathi remakes of Tamil films]]
[[Category:Marathi remakes of Hindi films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Sachin (actor)]]
[[Category:2000s Marathi-language films]]

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