Valu (film)

Valu

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni
Produced by Ganpat Kothari
Girish Kulkarni
Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni
Prashant Pethe
Nitin Vaidya
Written by Girish Kulkarni
Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni
Starring Atul Kulkarni
Mohan Agashe
Bharati Acharekar
Dilip Prabhavalkar
Nirmiti Sawant
Amruta Subhash
Girish Kulkarni
Music by Mangesh Dhakde (Theme music)
Cinematography Sudhir Palsane
Release dates
  • 25 January 2008 (2008-01-25)[1]
Running time
 135 minutes
Country India
Language Marathi
Box office ₹3.5 crore (US$520,000) (lifetime)[2]

Valu is a 2008 comedy Marathi film directed by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni. The film featured in various international film festivals as The Wild Bull.[1] It also became the first Marathi film to be selected in Rotterdam International Film Festival 2008, the Netherlands.[3][4]

Plot

In the small village of Kusavde, there is a lonely misunderstood wild bull. The bull, "Valu", is actually a holy, consecrated bull which is the responsibility of the village. It is allowed to roam free and is the responsibility of the entire village. But lately, Valu becomes very aggressive and is blamed for every single act of chaos and destruction that happens in and around the village. Now catching the bull becomes equivalent to establishing power in the village for the leaders and for those who are interested in the fringe benefits.

The film intertwines various stories of the war between the two leaders; love stories that bloom in the midst of the adventure; an amateur filmmaker who struggles to shoot a documentary; the forest officer who leads this chaos like a sacred mission along with the religious priest; the tricksters and an insane woman who seems to understand the mind of Valu.

Cast

Selection in Film Festivals

Awards and achievements

References

  1. 1 2 "Release dates". IMDB. Retrieved 3 Jan 2012.
  2. ↑ http://www.indiantelevision.com/special/y2k8/mar_cinema_spl.php
  3. 1 2 Mane, Anuradha (25 Jan 2008). "Valu trots to Rotterdam". The Times Of India. Retrieved 3 Jan 2012.
  4. ↑ "Marathi film Valu-The Wild Bull premieres at Rotterdam". Indian Express. 31 Jan 2008. Archived from the original on 10 December 2008. Retrieved 3 Jan 2012.
  5. ↑ "Asian film festival opens in Pune". Times of India. 2 Nov 2007. Retrieved 3 Jan 2012.
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