Akshay pushes release of Marathi film 72 Miles to Aug

With close to 100 films
being released in the
Marathi film industry
every year, compared to
just 30-40, producers are
beginning to feel the pinch of clashing dates and films. July 26 was
going to witness a
release of three big banner Marathi films.
These included a Marathi film '72 Miles Ek
Pravas' produced by Akshay Kumar and
Ashwini Yardi's Grazing Goat Pictures. It
was based on novel '72 Miles' written by Ashok Vhatkar & Directed by
Rajiv Patil.

But now the date of release of this
ambitious film has been postponed in
order to avoid the aforesaid disaster of
the division of the audiences and also the
theatres. Therefore now this film 72 Miles
Ek Pravas is going to release on August 9 instead of its previously
scheduled date
of July 26. This information was
communicated by Jayesh Muzumdar, the
director of the Commercial and Regional
Films Division of Viacom18, the company
looking after the distribution and presentation of this film.

Ashwini Yardi of Grazing Goat Pictures,
said, "After presenting a hit film in Hindi
like Oh! My God, our company has stepped
into Marathi films through this film.
Marathi audiences have always accorded
their first preference to the films that present a social reference blended with
entertainment. Our film has both these
elements and it is for this reason this
decision has been taken. This will help
the film attract highest possible
audiences and it shall release at highest number of theatres at a time."

Smita Tambe, Chinmay Sant, Sharvani
Solaskar, Isha Mane and Chinmay Kambli
have played the lead roles in this film.