Jait Re Jait
Jait Re Jait is 1977 Indian Marathi-language musical film directed by Dr. Jabbar Patel and produced by Usha Mangeshkar and Hridaynath Mangeshkar, under the banner of Mahalakshmi Chitra. The film stars Mohan Agashe and Smita Patil in the lead roles. The film won National [Film Award for Best Feature Film in Marathi|President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in Marathi] at the National Film Awards.
It is considered to be one of the greatest musical hits of all time in Marathi cinema. It is based on a book by G. N. Dandekar. Though the music achieved all-time hit status, the film was a box office disaster.
Plot
Jait re jait is a story that revolves around Nagya, a thakar tribal drummer who develops a passion for being “punyavanta” while growing up listening to his father. He desperately wants to see the “devimashi” . His father, during Negaya's childhood, piqued his interest in it unknowingly. A girl who had left her husband because she did not like him falls madly in love with Nagya. Once, when Nagya was cutting wood in the jungle, bees attacked him. Nagya seeks revenge and wants to kill them, especially the queen bee. However, the queen bee has some religious role in Nagya’s tribe. Despite this, Nagya being stubborn sets out to flee away from the bees with his wife, he does manage to flew them away but in the process his wife gets killed during the time nagya was attacked and attacked back he did not play drum but even after fleeing the queen bee away he restlessly picked up the drum and started playing it like a mad man he did not show a single amount of care for his dead wife. This is a classic paradox, where he succeeds in his revenge, but loses his wifeCast
- Mohan Agashe as Nagya
- Smita Patil as Chindhi
- Nilu Phule as Nagya's father
- Sulabha Deshpande as Nagya's mother
- Siddharth Ray as Young Nagya
- Narayan Pe
- Manjiri Paranjpae
- Meena Arjunwadkar
- Seema Dharmadhikari
- Shriram Ranade
- Chandrakant Kale
- Kamini
- Bal Karve
- Shriram Pendse
- Anant Kulkarni
- Dilip Mangalvedhekar
- Arvind Thakar
Crew
- Story - G. N. Dandekar
- Dialogues - Satish Alekar and Anil Joglekar
- Playback - Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Usha Mangeshkar, Varsha Bhosle, Ravindra Sathe and Chandrakant Kale
- Art - Desai
- Colour - Nivrutri Dalvi
- Make Up - Suresh Basale
- Stills - Rao and Rao
- Assistants:
Direction - Prasad Subhedar and Shrinivas Bhange
Camera - Rajan Kothari and Rajesh Joshi
- Director of Photography - Binod Pradhan
- Director - Dr. Jabbar Patel