''Natsamrat'' ( ''The King of Theater'' or ''The Emperor of Actors'') is a 2018
Indian Gujarati-language drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
starring
Siddharth Randeria and
Deepika Chikhalia
Dipika Chikhlia (born 29 April 1965) is an Indian actress and politician known for playing Sita in Ramanand Sagar's 1987 television series '' Ramayan''. She was also known for her debut film ''Sun Meri Laila'' (1983), opposite Raj Kiran and ...
in the leading role. The film is the remake of
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 ...
film of the same name starring
Nana Patekar
Vishwanath Patekar (born 1 January 1951), better known as Nana Patekar, is an Indian actor, film maker, mainly working in Hindi language, Hindi and Marathi language, Marathi cinema. Widely regarded as one of the finest and most influential actors ...
, which is based on Marathi play by
V. V. Shirwadkar. Before making it to the big screen, Randeria has adopted the screen play to a Gujarati-language stage play named ''Amari Duniya, Tamari Duniya'' in 2007, with many known faces of Gujarati theatre including Randeria himself, Jimmit Trivedi, and Disha Savla-Upadhyay. The story of the film is about an actor who has reached many heights in his career, but has to retire from acting at the peak.
Cast
*
Siddharth Randeria as Harindra Pathak
*
Deepika Chikhalia
Dipika Chikhlia (born 29 April 1965) is an Indian actress and politician known for playing Sita in Ramanand Sagar's 1987 television series '' Ramayan''. She was also known for her debut film ''Sun Meri Laila'' (1983), opposite Raj Kiran and ...
as Mangala Pathak
*
Manoj Joshi as Madhav
* Samvedna Suwalka as Neha
*
Tasneem Sheikh
Tassnim Sheikh, also known as Tanisha Nerurkar, is an actress, best known for her comic antagonistic roles as Mohini Harsh Virani in Ekta Kapoor's Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi
''Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi'' ( ''Because Even a Mother ...
as Jigna
*
Hemang Vyas as Makrand
Release
This film was released in theatres on 30 August 2018.
Reception
''The Times of India'' gave this movie 4 out of 5 stars. As per the ticket booking site Bookmyshow, the film earned around .
See also
*
Natsamrat (Marathi)
References
External links
* {{IMDb title, 10428316
Films shot in Gujarat
2018 drama films
2018 films
Gujarati remakes of Marathi films
Indian drama films
2010s Gujarati-language films