Milind Gawali

My profession has given me an opportunity, to live different life's in one life. life is a daring adventure or nothing at all. There are millions and millions of people who go to work everyday and they have their ups and downs, most of them have a routine job, day in and day out, same place , same people, and same work pattern. I am sure most of them get bored, Here in India , so many professionals like doctors, engineers, lawyers join the film industry after they had a successful career, after many years of work they feel , they have not lived life they really wanted to live, the profession of Acting gives them the opportunity to live life adventurously, they can do something which they were not allow in their profession, certain societies does not allow certain things. My experience will make things clear, I was shooting for a film called " Suryodaya " that was in Poona , and we were shooting a sequence where I get drunk and sleep on the

I met Subalda ( Subal Sarkar ) two days in a row, Rajan wanted a choreographer for the songs of " Most Wanted " and the first name came to my mind was Subalda , I was looking forward to work with him again after ages, and that day has come, I have met very few lovable people like Subalda in this ruthless film industry, and the work that he has done in the film industry , no body would be able to come close to him, I was fortunate to work with him in my first Marathi film " Nilambari " and that too a semi classical song, he gave me rehearsals and we shot the song in Nashik at Pandav lene ( Caves ) and one song in Mumbai's Gateway of India and worli sea face .. what an experience ? and after that we kept on work together, he knew I was a non dancer and still he casted me in many of the songs, I even did a Sindhi song for films division , also for Doordarshan Diwali song, one koli song I did for him was in front for almost one lakh people at Shi

I keep on reading about Bachchan family " Unforgettable world tour " and every day some or the other news keep coming , sometimes about the lost baggage or some times about record ticket sale, recently Anil Ambani offered Rs. 100 crores to ABCL to make films. Amitabh started writing blog, has become media friendly, Abhishek and Ashwaria both of them all the time in news. I feel behind this huge success is only one person that is this Iron lady called Jaya Amitabh Bachchan , I always felt she must be very strong, even when Amitabh was struggling in the film industry in the initial stage, she was a big star, and even after his huge success she took a back seat and supported him to grow bigger and bigger , reach the height where no man has ever reached, and still she has managed keep him there, when the film Silsila came I was wondering how could Jaya Bachchan work with Rekha , you really need to be a very strong headed person to play this role, when the media and

Paper publicity has started , Sakal news paper has lot of readers, I got calls from lot of friends, mumma called from nashik as she got a call from someone, my parents feel happy to read about me in the news paper and I feel one should work harder to make parents proud and happy, that is priceless . I had gone for morning walk so while coming home picked up this news paper. I feel print media and films is interrelated, both depend on each other, and if they coordinated and cooperated with each other bot will be benefited, as both have a common enemy and that is the television, and because of 24/7 news channels the news paper is affected, and because of movies show 24/7 the theatre business is affected, but the positive side is both theatre and news paper has its own charm and dedicated audience, and it is going to stay. So back to the film " Most wanted " , it is making news, and print media is also helping it crea

Kishor Kapoor , a dear friend, my co-actor, my philosophical guide, and also my acting Guru, he played many roles in my live, we first met on the set of a Hindi film " Hum bachche Hindustan Ke ", he always said he saw a spark in me, he considered me as a raw material which can be moulded, he took me to Govind Saraiya personally at Nepansea Road residence, and when I was casted for the teenage Hindi film " Waqt se pehele " he personally trained me for the role, we use to meet at birla krida kendra, marine lines. at 2.00pm we started meeting and the training went on till he was satisfied, improvisations, visualisation, relaxation, then making me comfortable with the co-actor Suparna. And unknowingly we became fond of each other, we became friend, he use to Act then, he was playing my father in the film, and in one scene he had to hit me because the principal has complained against me, he hit me really hard, it was very realistic, I was yo

This was the press conference arrangement by our PRO Mrs Sunanda Kaluskar & Sanjay Bane in Surve farm, Panvel . this is the press from Mumbai , even Poona press reporter had come of the set. My friend Satish Bapat from Poona, who is also playing an important part in this film, sends me this news paper cutting which has come in Sakal & Loksatta । Satish plays one of the seven criminal, he plays the character Paskal , who is from Goa , drinks all the time, an alcoholic with a good heart, Paskal loves cooking but gets irritated with the increasing demand from all the other gang member, he has an emotional side also, this film has a beautiful emotional scene when Paskal gets the news of his fathers death, and here the sad cum hope song " tya pahatechi me vaat paahe " sung by Shankar Mahadevan

Many of my friends are Smokers, and I am concerned about them, every time they smoke I feel uncomfortable, and because I become passive smoker but because I can visualise the damage being done to their lungs, the nicotine which goes in the blood, earlier I used to take a cigarette from the person who offered me and crush it in front of him, he used to get very upset and would say " why do you take it when you don't smoke? you have wasted money. " this used to be only one time trick as the next time that person never offered me his cigarette. This time Jay Pandia one of our lead actor in this film called " Most Wanted " not knowingly offered me his cigarette but I didn't crushed it but broke it, and asked my driver Geetish to apply it on the wind screen of my car, Jay was surprised, didn't feel that his cigarette was wasted because he too didn't know like many others that " Rubbing Tobacco on the wind screen of you ca

" Most Wanted " second schedule is successfully over, shot at surve farm panvel , from this still itself you can imagine how the schedule was for me, little bit of up and downs but in the end its was fun all the way, almost 60% to 70% of the film has been covered. this me and Rajan got some time to play chess also, and he remember Rishida for the he love for chess, he mentioned that Rishikesh Mukharji cast same actors only because they knew how to play chess and would give him company while on set. This was Vijumama's last scene of this schedule and it was a emotional one, he played it very well. The man to watch in this film is in the background and that is " Ramya " played by Rajan , Rajan is an extra ordinary actor, somebody on the set compared him to Kishore Kumar , and I do feel the same, he is versatile, a writer, director, lyricist, actor, singer and the list goes on. Ravi Patvardhan plays a strict father to Vijay Chavan who has not seen h

yesterday morning I getup and read this sms by my friend Sai Ballal " Garry Bindar is no more " , he had send this message at 00.00 hrs, and entire 52 episodes of "Kahani Teri Meri" ran through my mind, all behind the scenes with Garry had become fresh, and there was complete silence in my brain, Garry died of blood cancer at the age of 34 , unbelievable, he shouting, his laughing, his bad words are all echoing in my hears, he was a child, and intelligent child, wanting to make it big, wanted to go beyond Ekta Kapoors expectations, amazing energy level he had, I can go on and on with the little little experiences we had together, the satisfaction after a good scene and the anger when the same scene was ruthlessly cut by some Nivadita, making manav perform beyond his physical limits. This scene Garry enjoyed the most, when Urvashi had to remove my shoes while talking to me, and she was not comfortable doing it, and Garry was having a galla time forcing her to do it

Today is a great day, Shankar Mahadevan sang two song for us, that is for the film " Most Wanted ", and he sang them so beautifully that you have to hear it to believe it. It was really a pleasure to hear him sing for us, its been so many years since he sang for my project, first time it was for " Khushboo " serial title song directed by Swapna, and today for this marathi film Written & Directed by Rajan Prabhu, Rajan even wrote its lyrics, which Shankar really liked,both Rajan and Swapna are my dear friends for long time.and both are extra talented, I am happy that genius like Shankar Mahadevan is associated with good and talented people like Rajan and Swapna. I remember the time me and Swapna were shooting in Kolhapur in the shalini Palace and middle of the shoot some started a song called the " Breathless " sang by Shankar and we stopped the shoot and started dancing, never ever thought that the same Talented singer would sing for us one day. I am s

He Is Pradeep Khare, a dear friend since many many years, this is a photograph was taken at the time of shooting a song sequence from the film " Suryodaya " in poona, Pradeep Khare standing in the middle waving his hand with his mischievous smile ( Which he always had ) next to Pradeep is his wife, with me is his daughter, his son and extreme left is the heroine of the film. This was my relationship with him on screen , he played the villain in the film, and played it so well, like a professional actor. and off screen he was totally opposite, a very jolly kind of a person, happy go lucky, being the regional manager of Sansui product, and was always awarded for the maximum sales in his region. Pradeep Khare was a person whom anybody would want to be friends with, always smiling, an achiever, whatever he did he wanted to be the best. Today some body called me in the afternoon and informed me that my friend Pradeep Khare from Poona is no more, 2 weeks back he had a massive hea

Its also a great feeling when some things nice is written about you, and it is a greater feeling when someone declares it to the world and goes on print , today Santosh has done the same, as he has written this beautiful article in M ahanagar new paper, and since morning I am flooded with calls from my well wishers congratulating me, and everyone agreed to what Santosh has written except one person who called and said " You most have give something to Santosh or else why would he write such a big and good article exclusively on you " the whole afternoon I kept on thinking on that, why don't people take things as they are, why don't people have pure thoughts, why do they think that ways, why don't they like others being appreciated, why do they call to congratulate you and communicate their displeasure indirectly. I have always enjoyed all this, as I always take things with in pinch of salt. And the best part is whenever I get praises I feel nice but it don&