Family Katta (2016)

Family Katta: Directed by Chandrakant Kulkarni. With Vandana Gupte, Dilip Prabhavalkar, Sai Tamhankar, Aadesh Shrivastava. ‘Family Katta’ is the story of a splintered family, at the head of which are Bhai and Malati, a couple celebrating their golden jubilee wedding anniversary. Their children and grandchildren are located in different cities and over time the family has lost touch due to unresolved issues from the past. However, the grandchildren i.e. the two young cousins are still close. It is Malati’s intention to bring the entire family together for the anniversary celebration so that they may bury their differences and forgive each other and be close again. It is also meant to be an opportunity for the patriarch Bhai to forgive their daughter Manju who had eloped in her college days. Things, however don’t go as planned and Malati’s dream of seeing the family come together like the old days is severely tested to the limit. The film sends a positive message about families sticking together and loving one another despite the burden of the past and the demands of a changing world.

“I am not a Marathi speaking person,but I came upon this movie on Amazon prime video and it was with subtitles,so I thought let me try.I was floored with the movie.The story is sharp,the performances simply superb and the characters relatable.The ending brings tears to your eyes.The friendly banter between Bhai and Malathi in the first half is really good.The equation between each family member is well written and executed.This movie has hooked me on to watch more Marathi movies and in the process pick up some Marathi words as well!”