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Mahanayak vasant tu (2015)

Mahanayak vasant tu poster
Genre
biographical film
Country
India
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This is a biographical film about Vasantrao Naik, who was Chief Minister of Maharashtra for over 11 years. Chinmay Mandlekar plays Naik, with special effects used to make him look like the real politician.

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What happens

Mahanayak Vasant Tu is a 2015 Indian Marathi language biopic film starring Chinmay Mandlekar. It is based on the life of ex Chief Minister of Maharashtra state Shree Vasantrao Naik. He was the Chief Minister of Maharashtra for more than 11 years (3 terms) from 5 December 1963 to 20 February 1975. The film stars Chinmay Mandlekar as Vasantrao Naik, Nisha Parulekar, Bharat Ganeshpure, Ravi Patwardhan, Prakash Dhotre, Jayraj Nair. The film also has a special appearance by popular actress Prajakta Mali. The film is produced by Baliram Rathod under the banner Aditie Film Production House. Special Prosthetic makeup has been used to transform Chinmay Mandlekar to look like Shree Vasantrao Naik. Apart from make up, vfx has also been used to make it more realistic and lively. The vfx work (make-up clean up) took around 9 months to complete. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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