Best Marathi Movies of all time

In interior Maharashtra, a fisherman's son and a local politician's daughter fall in love against the restrictions of caste hierarchy.

A respected village schoolteacher falls for a travelling dancer and faces a moral dilemma.

Ein alternder Theaterschauspieler und seine Frau beginnen nach seiner Pensionierung, sich von ihren Kindern unerwünscht zu fühlen.

A clash of two musical families, where in the end, music is the winner. When greed takes the front seat, manipulations shift gears. A race starts, a race that kills whatever comes across the way, a race that ultimately ends on the losing side. When it happens to a music maestro, it is only the music that suffers. Katyar Kaljat Ghusali depicts the story of the art of music suffering, which is uncannily narrated by a Dagger (Katyar).

This film chronicles key events in the life of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, founder of the Maratha Empire from his birth to his Coronation as "Chhatrapati"

An instance from Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's life depicting his statesmanship, wisdom and bravery under the guidance of his mother.

Four friends are searching for rented accommodation. The landlady insists only on married couples, so two of the friends are forced to dress as women and pretend to be wives of the other two.

Bapu produces Tabaco crop he marries Ratna and gets her in his village.The village Savkar eyes Ratna.

A tribal women Ruhibai is mistress of village head Mukutrao who has a position and respect in village. But Mukutrao is an arrogant person known for drinking and womanizing ways he also has his own family a wife and two sons. Ruhibai finds that Mukutrao is seeing another women in village and desires to have a child. A Tantrik tells her that her desires could be full filled only if she sacrifices lives of five virgin women in village by doing this she will not only bear a child but avail hidden treasure in the village. Ruhibai involves her two servants to commit the crime by making Mukutrao aware of it, but Mukutrao is lusting behind the hidden treasure and intends to kill Ruhibai with two servants.

When Bhagwan Shri Narad Muni informs the inhabitants of Swarglok about Raja Harishchandra's compassion and generosity, Sage Vishwamitra decides to verify this for himself and travels to meet the Raja. Once there, he demands the Raja's kingdom, and after receiving it, asks one of his disciples to be the new Raja. Not satisfied, he asks Harishchandra, his wife, Taramati, and son, Rohidas, to take off all their ornaments and royal clothing, go into exile, as well as labor, earn a thousand gold coins in two months, and remit this to him as his Dakshina. Harishchandra agrees, and re-locates to Kashi where his entire family work to collect wood for a cemetery, and then are hired by Mahajan Ganganath. At the end of two months, all they accumulate is a mere 10 gold coins. It is then Harishchandra decides to sell himself in the slave market - a decision that will alter their lives forever.

Movie tells a story of a man who struggles to save his wife's life. Lack of money makes him ask for help to his children and relatives. He even tries to sell his house in Kokan, which is filled with his wife's beautiful memories. But his old age makes him helpless. Vikram Gokhale has given justice to this character. His acting is astonishing as always.

Bal belongs to a conservative Brahmin family his parents send him to study at Pune upon returning a he gets fascinated by city's lifestyle but his father is adamant that the follow their traditions and values.Year later an educated Bal still completes his education in Pune and falls in love with modern girl Malu and both get married in absence of their parents.Bal's mother tells her husband that they should visit Pune for two days to meet him and their daughter in law.Upon reaching Bal refuses to recognize his father while Malu throws him out of the house following which they return back and he dies of shock.Radhe returns back to Pune and starts working in their house as maid but never comes in front of Bal while Malu is unaware she is her mother in law.

Sakharam wandered for the job. He wanders through the beggars and goes in the beggars. At the same time he encounters a blind young girl. Sankaram supports her. She is the daughter of a rich man. at last She gets her parents finds her and take her her away. She also takes Sakharam along with her. Good days come to Sakharam.

Story of a boy who finds enlightenment by experiencing religious hypocrisy and dogmatism. Dnyaneshwar liberated the "divine knowledge" locked in the Sanskrit language to bring that knowledge into Prakrit (Marathi) and made it available to the common man.

The elder of the two sisters, Gauri (Renuka Daftadar), is getting married and there is festivity in the household. Elders in the village advise her to visit a temple before groom arrives and so she is accompanied by her younger sister Krishna (Sonali Kulkarni) and uncle (Sadashiv Amrapurkar). While on their way back, uncle notices in the newspaper that groom's family had met with a fatal accident while coming to the village. Gauri and Krishna's father (Suryakant Mandhare) is paralyzed after the shocking news. The villagers shun Gauri as an ill omen. Soon, the family starts facing financial troubles so they attempt to till their piece of infertile land to get some money. When nothing works out, their mother (Uttara Baokar) requests uncle to take Gauri to Mumbai for a job. Initially hesitant uncle agrees to the persuasion but requests mother not to ask any further questions about Gauri's whereabouts in the future. Uncle puts Gauri into prostitution and she starts sending money to her family every month. Things get better for the family and uncle finds a groom for Krishna, a young idealist Shesh Waghmare (Abhay Kulkarni) working with an NGO. Gauri visits the village for Krishna's marriage but their mother does not allow her to take part in any activities because of Gauri's unfortunate marriage incident and her way of earning money. When Krishna gets to know about this, she questions their mother and convinces her to accept Gauri. When Gauri decides to leave marriage and village, Shesh's activist friend Nivrutti Kamble (Sunil Sukthankar) proposes her for marriage, in spite of knowing her past. Gauri stays back in the village, never to return to her life as a prostitute in Mumbai.

Two friends Banya and Bapu struggling hard to survive.Where one lands in jail and other elopes to Mumbai with his lover.

The comical story of hapless, orphaned, Bachelor of Arts, poor tenant, Shantaram, who must travel all the way from Poona to Bombay; then to Hyderabad and finally to Vasai to pick a suitable groom for his neighbor, Krishna Apte, the second of three daughters of retired school-teacher, Apte. It is at Vasai that they will find Kamlakar Varde, who will agree to get married to Krishna for the agreed dowry of 5000 Rupees plus expenses. While Kamlakar and Krishna have both fallen in love, Apte must deal with selling his house, belongings, jewelery, etc. to pay for the dowry, as well as try and meet new demands of the groom, his father and their relatives.

A common man fights against the corruption and injustice happening around him.

This story is about how an old man tried to show his grandson the preciousness and beauty of life in a no win situation such as cancer. It is about keeping a positive attitude towards life.