Shala

Wow... It's a Beautiful Romantic Movie... This is the Best Marathi Movie i have seen in recent years . This Movie is for everybody who visited School in Your Childhood . When u start watching movie m sure You'll Definitely Remembered Your School Days. Sujoy s Dahake's Direction is Outstanding... It's Simple Script. All Drama, School Scenes, Romantic Scenes, Frndship Scenes Beautifully Shoot by Director Sujoy s Dahake. Anshuman Joshi as "Mukund Joshi" n Ketaki Mategaonkar as "Shirodkar" both Delivered Fabulous Performances... This two r Heart of this Movie "Shala".. All the Scenes Between them r Extremely Beautiful n very Heart Touching.. Mukund Joshi's all Frnds also very funny Specially "Mhatre" is Braveheart.. All D Characters is in the Movie Briefly Shown by Director.. From School Teacher to Headmaster.. Among all D Teachers "Santosh Juverkar " as History Teacher is Very Loveble one n Amruta Khanvilkar is in Saree Very Glamrous. n "English Teacher" She is d Real Villain in this Movie. On d Other Cast Mukund's Mother n Sister Really Caring n Loving. But Mukund's Uncle "Jitendra Joshi" As "Naru Mama" is Very Romantic.. I Like Kewada's Father Very much his role is Negative but he is very Entertaining... n Other one is Mukund's Daddy "Nandu Madhav" He is Such an Great Actor .. he is Simply Superb, His Role is Very small but he delivered Amazing Performance.. He is Very Lovely n Caring, n he giving Suggestions very Sufficiently. This Movie is Having Everything Drama, Emotions, Love, Frndship. Specially Mhatre's Building Scenes r Best in d Movie. It's a Beautiful Experience of 100 Minutes.. My Rating is for this "School" Movie is 10 out of 10.. Don't Miss This One.. Strongly Recommended to Everybody... do Revisit this School..!

The name can be misleading. Shala is not about kids going to school nor is it a children's film, even remotely. All that it has in common with Stanley ka Dabba begins and ends at the animated sequence that plays with the opening credits. Shala takes you to the next level: while you are still at school and your friends are important, you step onto the threshold of the adult world and start making sense of it.

Most actors in the film have delivered a restrained performance. Anshuman Joshi emotes wonderfully as the protagonist Mukund Joshi. Ketaki Mategonkar who plays Shirodkar does a contrived act initially but entices with her charm in no time. Joshi and the other boys, particularly Mhatre (Ketan Pawar) are required to dabble in a range of emotions as they come-of-age: love, fear, rage and rejection. They do it naturally and convincingly.

Do not give Shala a miss. It is a self-assured and grounded debut by a filmmaker which offers a lesson or two in simple storytelling straight from the heart, complete with soulful music. It is one of those gems that Marathi cinema throws up once in a while; totally localized in flavor yet universal in appeal.

The story is about school life highlighting mostly about attraction taking place between students at this tender age.

There is a boy who likes a girl and approaches her in incognito way. There is guardian to this boy worth mentioning.

There is another boy whose interests are all well known by his friends. He is weak at studies.

There is a scene where students play game to recognize movie names reminding me of school days.

All these together contribute for a joy some ride.

This is the first Marathi movie I have watched till date & many more are in the line to be seen in coming days & I must confess how divine & nostalgic was the feeling to relive the days of romance during school days. Said that, I would also emphasize that it would be highly unfair for an individual to accept that he/she hasn't been through this "Journey of Love" during his/her schooling life.

Watching the movie makes an adult to realize how immature it was to hop into the journey of love during school days without even considering the responsibilities there next. Probably that is why there's a saying "Love is blind" & can happen anytime. Mind me, I am not referring to "Infatuation" & only talking about true meaning of LOVE which is very pure, divine, beautiful & very blissful, also very difficult express through words.

This is a very beautiful movie of love between two school goers Joshi & Shirodkar falling in love who are classmates in the same school in a suburban of Maharastra. Joshi expresses his feeling to his love which in itself is very blissful to watch. His love understands his feeling for her, however she is little reluctant in accepting probably because she realizes the level of Immaturity of getting into love at this age. No wonder that women have very high level of maturity compared to men, however it is also very true if a woman feels deep for someone special, she will go beyond the boundaries to be with her love.

Well coming back to the story post Intermission, everything seems fine between the two until Mathare (a close friend of Joshi) tries to propose his Love Kevda who is on the way to her home from School, however his proposal is turned down by the girl & she complains this incident to the Principal of the school. On learning about this, he summons Mathare & Joshi (an accomplish in this incident) in the school & are punished & Also decides to rusticate both from the school. Before taking a final decision, the Principal calls upon the parents of Mathare & Joshi to a meeting, for them to take the necessary step for the best interest of their children. Post this incident, Shirodkar's father girl gets posting somewhere else & hence the family moves out of the village. This turn of events become known to Joshi immediately after learning his outstanding performance in the exams which is declared during his last visit to the school for that year for the results. Absence of his love in the class & disclosure of the fact that girl's family has moved out of the village by one of her classmate leaves the boy devastated & this is when he realizes "Probably he would never ever meet his first love".

Everyone has done their part perfectly.

Amazing story line, acting and direction.