NATH HA MAZA (Marathi)

`NATH HAA MAZHA` IS ONE OF THE VERY FEW, THOROUGHLY ENGAGING BIOGRAPHIES THAT ALSO QUALIFIES AS A MEMOIR. A TRANSPARENT ACCOUNT OF A FANTASTIC DENTIST-TURNED-ACTOR DR.KASHINATH GHANEKAR, LOVINGLY PENNED BY HIS WIFE KANCHAN GHANEKAR NEE` CHAVAN. DAUGHTER OF SULOCHANA, THE GRAND DAME OF MARATHI CINEMA, KANCHAN WAS A MERE GIRL OF 15 WHEN SHE FELL HEAD-OVER-HEELS IN LOVE WITH DR. GHANEKAR, WHO WAS THEN IN HIS 30S. A MESMERISING NARRATION OF THE JOYS AND PAINS OF UNCONVENTIONAL LOVE, THE BOOK IS NOT JUST A SOLILOQUY OF WHAT TRANSPIRED IN KANCHAN AND GHANEKAR`S LOVE LIFE IN THOSE TWO DECADES. KANCHAN HAS STAYED TRUE TO A BIOGRAPHER`S RESPONSIBILITY BY ALSO LAYING OUT THE CAREER TRAJECTORY OF HER LOVER-TURNED-HUSBAND WHO REMAINED A SUPERSTAR OF MARATHI THEATRE AND CINEMA TILL HIS LAST BREATH. IT GIVES A RIVETING GLIMPSE INTO WHAT MADE THIS ACTOR EXTRAORDINAIRE CUM ENFANT TERRIBLE OF THE MARATHI THEATRE SPHERE, SUCH AN IRRESISTIBLE PERSONA. THIS MESMERISING STORY OF KACHAN GHANEKAR HAS ALSO BEEN ADOPTED AS A MAJOR FILM IN MARATHI TITLED AS ‘ANI DR.KASHINATH GHANEKAR’WHICH WAS A BLOCKBUSTER OF 2018. PROMINENT ACTOR SUBODH BHAVE PORTRAIT DR.KASHINATH GHANEKAR IN THE FILM.