On Saturday, 15th June 2019 I watched one well-woven, well scripted, insightful Marathi 
movie “Mogra Phulala”. It was the second day of the release. The movie has an inimitable love story angle with a middle class Marathi man falling for a young widowed mother. He is brought up by a single parent (his mother), and, therefore he understands the young widowed lady’s dilemmas. Swapnil Joshi is the protagonist of the movie. He plays a man who has dedicated all his life attending to the well-being of his family, and forgets to take care of his personal life. The movie unfolds events after he meets the woman of his dreams. The situation becomes tough when his obsessive mother does not accept his relationship; there are other twists in the tale which are managed in a humorous manner without crouching into being frivolous or trivial. Swapnil has beautifully showcased how children get heavily influenced by the parent, especially the single parent who raises them.
The movie displays some deep human insights without being preachy or being conceited. There is subtleness for the sensitive viewer such as the fact that the hero at the start of the movie never rides his scooter past 40 kmph while at the end he is shown speeding away but there is no focus on the speedometer.
The movie is directed by Shrabani Deodhar and produced by Arjun Singgh Baran and Kartik Nishandar. Sachin Mote has written the dialogues and the screenplay. There are subtle comic timings in the movie; debutant Sonamm Nishandar plays the girl next door, who loves the hero, Swapnil Joshi. Sonamm has carried herself with ease and has played her role cheerfully. She has shown it perfectly what it is like being in love… When you are in love, you go all out to make the person feel good. A love-struck lady’s cheeks flush, her heart beats faster, she is dedicated to go all out to please the man she loves. She has portrayed all of these feelings brilliantly.
The director has trusted intelligence of the audience. The casting is brilliant with nuanced acting from the lead and support cast. Neena Kulkarni plays the obsessive mom to the perfection; Sai Deodhar is brilliant in the lead role, she has marvelously essayed her emotional breakdown scenes in the movie as the widowed single mother. She portrays the single mother’s longing to have her daughter with her, a mother trying to keep her daughter happy at any cost with lot of sensitivity. Chandrakant Kulkarni fits well in his character as Swapnil Joshi’s uncle; he is also a brilliant director in Marathi films and theatre.
As a viewer what I liked is the director has showcased how stressful 
single parenting can become. Each day they take on the world at the same time trying to give their kids the best of life. Each day they think about ways to make life better, and each day they worry that something will happen and they will not be able to provide for their loved ones. Their primary focus is on their children and making each child’s life as good as possible. But the children have their own set of issues; this fact has been sensitively portrayed in the movie. Running a household, working and bringing up children alone are not a gag thing.
Swapnil Joshi is considered as a Superstar and Chocolate hero of Marathi film industry. He has donned an entirely new look for the movie. Talented Swapnil has shed his image of a typical lover boy. He has essayed the role and look of a boy next door from a typical middle class family very well. I suggest all to please watch this movie at the earliest.
