GenresRomance ActorsAnkush Chaudhari, Mukta Barve, Asawari Joshi Roles Manjiri Naik Rating76% Double Seat highlights the family struggles of recently married couple Amit (Choudhary) and Manjiri (Barve). They wish to move out of their family homes and buy a tent together. While Amit was born and raised in metropolitan Mumbai, Manjiri is from the village of Roha and has difficulty coping with city life. Amit works in the packing business and is chained to this reality by his father, who trains horses. Manjiri, on the other hand, has a zest for life, and is optimistic about working as an LIC agent.
, 2h55 Directed byUmesh Vinayak Kulkarni ActorsGirish Kulkarni, Renuka Shahane, Tisca Chopra, Huma Qureshi, Mukta Barve, Sunil Barve Rating71% Highway is a story of a simple, routine Mumbai- Pune journey that our characters begin in separate vehicles. They all come from different walks of life, carrying their own baggage of what they are. Each one is in a hurry to reach their respective destinations. The journey does not quite end as they expect it to. It provokes some questions that were hidden deep within. Highway is a film of that escape which all of us yearn for. It is an attempt to see our own reflections in today's time.
, 1h41 Directed bySatish Rajwade GenresRomance ActorsMukta Barve, Swapnil Joshi Roles Mumbai 'Gauri Deshpandey' Rating79% The story revolves around two characters, a boy (Swapnil Joshi) from Pune and a girl (Mukta Barve) from Mumbai, whose names are not revealed. Barve is shown to arrive in Pune to meet a prospective groom (whom she has already decided to decline), and inadvertently comes across Joshi to ask for directions to the prospective groom (who is referred to as ‘Hridaymardyam’ after the name of his residential colony). She finds the place, but seeing the door locked, checks out the neighbouring houses to find his whereabouts, but is turned away by the neighbour. She calls up her relative in Mumbai via a public phone (her mobile having run out of battery) and decides to spend the day in Pune, waiting for Hridaymardyam to show up. She bumps into Joshi again, and asks him directions to the nearest coffee shop. Joshi offers her a ride instead, and she being new in town, agrees, if only to save the hassle of searching for an address again; and they end up having coffee together. In the coffee shop, the two debate about their respective hometowns and constantly try to boast about their own city. She is exasperated by his constant chatter, but they share a curious chemistry nevertheless.
GenresDrama, Comedy ActorsAlok Nath, Rasika Dugal, Raghubir Yadav, Sanjay Mishra, Ranvir Shorey, Mukta Barve Roles Lakshmi The Prostitute Rating79% A 12-year-old street kid named Municipality, while on the run from the reformatory, finds and saves a two-day-old abandoned child from being prey to a ferocious street dog. Failing to find any takers among the people he deemed responsible & respectable, Municipality takes up the onus of finding the child's mother himself. Here onwards ensues his struggle in the urban jungle of Mumbai with just four of his friends from the streets - Soda (15), Sursuri (10), Cutting (8), & Dhed-shaana (6).
, 2h10 Directed byVikram Gokhale GenresDrama ThemesMedical-themed films ActorsVikram Gokhale, Mukta Barve, Kiran Kumar, Aniket Vishwasrao, Suhas Joshi, Anant Jog Roles Dr. Smita Rating77% Sangeeta Pradhan (Kadambari Kadam), a 22-year-old girl who is about to be married in a month, has been admitted to a reputed private hospital in Pune, but is unwilling to sign the consent form. After talking to resident physician Dr. Smita Deshmukh (Mukta Barve) and psychiatrist Dr. Suren (Amol Kolhe), she is convinced to undergo an exploratory surgery on her ovaries. The surgery is to be performed by senior physician Dr. Khurana (Vikram Gokhale) who is also Dr. Smita's mentor. In the operating theater, Dr. Khurana appears distracted and asks Smita to perform the surgery. On first inspection by pathologist Dr. Kende (Arun Nalawade), one of the ovaries is diagnosed to have borderline malignant carcinoma, and no verdict is passed on the second ovary. Dr. Khurana orders Smita to remove both the ovaries, an order she refuses to comply with citing new research in medical journals. This enrages Dr. Khurana and he orders assistant Dr. Budhkar (Shashank Shende) to complete the surgery.
Directed byGajendra Ahire ActorsMakarand Madhukar Anaspure, Jitendra Joshi, Mukta Barve, Siddarth Jadhav, Sai Tamhankar, Ravi Kale Roles Kalyani Rating78% Veeru (Jitendra Joshi) is a maturing musician who is on his way back to the village. His elder brother Vasant and sister-in-law are also returning to their old ancestral house after ages. The journey makes all of them revisit their earlier period, with all its restful memories and tiresome truths.
Directed byGajendra Ahire GenresDrama ActorsNeena Kulkarni, Mohan Agashe, Mukta Barve, Dilip Prabhavalkar, Saksham Kulkarni, Mita Vashisht Rating72% Vidya Barve, is a divorced, working woman,sharing a rented flat with a room mate in Mumbai. Our film deals with one single night which Vidya is forced to spend on the streets of this city. As she ambles on the deserted roads waiting for morning, she's frightened, lonely, angry, confused. She keeps recalling her relationships as they stand today - Her estranged husband, her teenaged son staying with her mother in small town Nasik, her boss, her colleague, her room mate. Alternating between her encounters during this night and her past, the film finally sees a visibly confident Vidya coming to terms with her lot. And that is when dawn breaks... The title Shevri suggests an insignificant wisp of cotton, which is Vidya. An ordinary woman with ordinary dreams, leading a life which is now out of the ordinary for her. Her coming to terms with her state today and becoming present to her life is what gives an essence to the film.