Deool


Deool is a 2011 Indian Marathi dark comedy directed by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni and produced by Abhijeet Gholap. The film stars Girish Kulkarni, Nana Patekar, Dilip Prabhawalkar, Sharvani Pillai, Sonali Kulkarni in lead roles. The film is about the effect of globalization on India's small towns and the terrible state of Indian villages, with a political backdrop.
Deool won the 59th National Film Awards for Best Feature Film, Best Actor and Best Dialogue.
The film also marks the debut of veteran Hindi film actor Naseeruddin Shah in Marathi film industry.

Plot

In the rural areas of Maharashtra lies a peaceful village called Mangrul. Keshya , a simple villager youth, who works for Bhau as a Cow stockman and takes one of Bhau's cow named as "KARDI", to one of the hills in the village where there is an Audumber tree present. KARDI a cow scraches her head over that tree and by which Lord Dattatreya makes a preseence and show his Avtar to keshya. Keshya by expericing God's Avtar he makes a hue and cry in the village saying God Dattatreya made an appearance for him.
Anna , most respected figure of Mangrul, advises him against announcing such personal matter as it's a question of faith. However, it is too late as a Journalist with the help of few other village youth who involved more into politics, sensationalizes the news about Lord Dattatrey making an appearance in Mangrul.
There is now demand for a Dattatrey temple. Bhau doesn't approve it as he wants the funds to be used for better purposes, as Anna also has vision to build Hospital in the village. But since Bhau helpless looking at the village so demand, the temple is built.
And slowly the village becomes a holy place. Mangrul goes through a 360 degree change due to commercialization but nobody is complaining except Anna. Soon, blinded by the commercial progress, God is forgotten. Every village has a right to progress commercially but how ethical it is to use a temple and it's good to achieve it?

Cast

Guest Appearance
Deool was scheduled to be released on 23 September 2011 but was later postponed to November. It was shown in Busan International Film Festival, New York's South Asian International Film Festival, the Abu Dhabi International Film Festival and MAMI in Mumbai, and was released on 4 November 2011 nationwide.

Music

Music of Deool was composed by Mangesh Dhakade and lyrics were penned by Swanand Kirkire, Sudhir Moghe.

Awards and recognition

Deool gathered positive reviews from critics on release. Daily News & Analysis gave the film a 4 star rating out of 5 saying, "There’s too much going for Deool. It is an Indian language film to be proud of. For God’s sake, don’t miss it."
The movie won maximum number of awards at 59th National Film Awards in 2011.
;National Film Awards