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Tu Bol Na (2025)

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A woman and a man navigate modern relationships, balancing their own freedom with social expectations. The film uses a Broadway-inspired theatrical style to tell their story.

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What happens

Tu Bol Na (transl. You Speak Up) is a 2025 Indian Marathi-language romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Mrunmayee Deshpande. The film stars Deshpande as Manava and Rahul Pethe as Shlok, supported by Pushkaraj Chirputkar, Karan Parab, Shubhangi Gokhale and Leena Bhagwat. Produced by Nitin Prakash Vaidya, Sanjay Dawra, and Shreyash Jadhav, with music by Siddharth Mahadevan and Soumil Shringarpure, and distributed by Panorama Studios. The film explores modern relationships, marriage expectations, and the tension between individual freedom and social tradition, distinguished by a Broadway-influenced theatrical style. The film was originally titled Mana Che Shlok and was released on 10 October 2025. However, protests by religious organisations, who objected that the title resembled the sacred Marathi devotional text Manache Shlok by Samarth Ramdas Swami, led to disruptions in screenings and the removal of theatre banners in Pune. In response, the filmmakers voluntarily changed the title, and the film was re-released as Tu Bol Na on 16 October 2025. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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