Matichya Chuli - Marathi movie review

Rating: ****
Cast: Sudhir Joshi, Vandana Gupte, Ankush Choudhari, Madhura Velankar, Sanjay Mone, Anand Abhyankar
Directed by: Sudesh Manjrekar, Atul Kale
Produced by: Ashwami Manjrekar
Story: Mahesh Manjrekar
Dialogues: Sanjay Pawar
Genre: Family drama

Matichya Chuli is a family drama which beautifully depicts relationships between parents, their son and daughter-in-law in a typical middle class family. The main plot of the movie is the souring of relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law and the rope walk done by the father-in-law and his son.

Shripad Dandekar (Late Mr.Sudhir Joshi, later replaced by Mr. Anand Abhyankar) and Sunanda Dandekar (Vandana Gupte) are middle aged couples from a Brahmin family with a son Vishal Dandekar (Ankush Choudhari) who gets married to Pooja Bhosale (madhura Velankar) from a Maratha family. Due to their difference in ways of handling house-hold things, Sunanda and Pooja slowly start disliking each other. Vishal gets stuck between his emotional mother and disciplined wife. Shripad tries to maintain the decorum of the house but to no success.

Story unfolds as some realistic incidents take place. Ups and downs of their relationships are very nicely handled. The title of the movie comes from a Marathi adage "Gharoghari Matichya Chuli" which lets us know that this is the story of each and every house.

Apart from the realistic story, I thoroughly enjoyed the dialogues of the movie. At many places in the movie, you will have a smile on your face but with eyes getting little mosit. Heart touching dialogues and helplessness of each character has been showcased miraculously.

I would strongly recommend to watch this movie so that you will be in a better position to handle relationships in your life. And if its too late, you can atleast sit back and identify yourself as one of the characters in the movie.