Jait Re Jait

Jait Re Jait
Jait Re Jait
	Poster
Directed by	Jabbar Patel
Written by	Satish Alekar; Anil Joglekar
Based on	Jait re Jait; by G. N. Dandekar
Produced by	Usha Mangeshkar
Starring	Mohan Agashe; Smita Patil; Nilu Phule
Cinematography	Binod Pradhan
Music by	Hridaynath Mangeshkar
Distributed by	Mahalakshmi Chitra
Release date	1977;
Country	India
Language	Marathi

Jait Re Jait (English: Win, Win) 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 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.^[1] 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 a tribal caste ‘thakar’nagya the protagonist is a drummer,who develops a passion for being “punyavant”[pure one]while growing up listening to his father,he desperately wants to see the “devimassi”[queen bee]his father in childhood peaked nagyas interest in it unknowingly.a girl who leaves her husband because she didn't like him falls in mad love with nagya,once when nagya was cutting wood in jungle bees attack him,nagya seeks revenge he wants to kill them most importantly the queen bee,the queen bee has some religious role in nagya’s tribe tho nagya being stubborn he sets out to flee away 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 didn't 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 didn't show a single amount of care for his dead wife.This is a classic paradox, where he succeeds (Jait re jait, means WIN-WIN) in his revenge, but loses his wife

Cast

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:

Music - Amar Direction - Prasad Subhedar and Shrinivas Bhange Camera - Rajan Kothari and Rajesh Joshi

Director of Photography - Binod Pradhan
Director - Dr. Jabbar Patel

Music

The popular songs of the film are composed by Pt. Hridaynath Mangeshkar, with most of the lyrics by N. D. Mahanor and performed by Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Usha Mangeshkar, Ravindra Sathe and Chandrakant Kale. Poet Arati Prabhu contributed to the lyrics of the song "Me Raat Takli".

All lyrics are written by N. D. Mahanor; all music is composed by Pt. Hridaynath Mangeshkar

No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Gorya Dehavarti"	Usha Mangeshkar, Ravindra Sathe	03:58
2.	"Nabh Utaru Aala, Chimba Tharthar Valla"	Asha Bhosle	05:32
3.	"Jambhul Piklya Zaadakhali"	Asha Bhosle, Ravindra Sathe	04:03
4.	"Lingobacha Dongur"	Ravindra Sathe, Chandrakant Kale	01:23
5.	"Wadi Varlya Waata"		01:37
6.	"Ha Doliya"		02:45
7.	"Mee Raat Taakli, Me Kaat Taakli"	Lata Mangeshkar, Ravindra Sathe, Chandrakant Kale	04:30
8.	"Dongar Kathadi Thakarwadi"	Ravindra Sathe, Chandrakant Kale	01:48
9.	"Kunya Raajan Raajan"	Smita Patil, Asha Bhosle	02:32
10.	"Aamhi Thakar Thakar"	Ravindra Sathe, Chandrakant Kale	04:19
11.	"Pik Karpal"	Ravindra Sathe	04:01
12.	"Hee Dusryachi Baael"		02:40

Awards

The songs from this film are popular in Maharashtra. The film earned actress Smita Patil and Jabbar Patel Filmfare Awards. Maharashtra State Film Awards for Best Direction was also presented to Patel. The 25th National Film Awards held in April 1978 honoured the film with President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in Marathi for;

"Consistently transferring to the film medium a successful fictional work (Jait re Jait by G. N. Dandekar); for high lightening the mutual inconsistencies of love, of the fear of God and of superstition in a simple, innocent community of tribal, for the memorable use of the drum in evoking presence of the God and expressing the inexorable demands of love for a cinematic form which captures the lyricism, the cadence and the lilt of folk culture."^[2]^[3]

The film was shot on locations of Maharashtra in Karnala, Khalapur, Kumbhavali and Thakarwadi in Raigad District. The titles appeared after 15 minutes after the start of the film and the song-mee raat taakli—appeared after 50 minutes after the start of the film.