Jeur is a village in the
Karmala taluka
Karmala Taluka is one of the 11 Tehsils of India, talukas of Solapur district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of Maharashtra. Parts of the movie Sairat were shot in this taluka. Its headquarters are in the town of Karmala.
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of
Solapur district in
Maharashtra
Maharashtra () is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana to th ...
state, India.
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Sairat
''Sairat'' () is a 2016 Indian Marathi language, Marathi-language Romance film, social romantic tragedy film directed and co-produced by Nagraj Manjule under his banner Aatpat Production, along with Nittin Keni and Nikhil Sane under Essel Visi ...
'', the controversial and highest-grossing
Marathi film
Marathi cinema is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Marathi language, which is widely spoken in the state of Maharashtra. It is based out of Mumbai. It is the oldest film industry in India an ...
of all time based on the theme of forbidden love was set and shot in Jeur village.
Climate
Demographics
Covering and comprising 1491 households at the time of the
2011 census of India, Jeur had a population of 6880. There were 3602 males and 3278 females, with 818 people being aged six or younger.
Notable people
* Award-winning
Marathi
Marathi may refer to:
*Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India
**Marathi people (Uttar Pradesh), the Marathi people in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh
*Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Mar ...
movie director, and actor
Nagraj Manjule
Nagraj Popatrao Manjule (born 24 August 1978) is an Indian film director, actor, producer, scriptwriter, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. He works in Marathi cinema, and is best known for ''Sairat'' and ''Pistulya''—the latter for which he r ...
was born and brought up in Jeur
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Villages in Karmala taluka