Dear Dad (film)

Dear Dad is an upcoming Indian period drama film written and directed by Mahesh Manjrekar, which has been simultaneously made in Hindi and Tamil. A remake of Manjrekar's 2012 Marathi film Kaksparsh, Dear Dad is based on a short story by Usha Datar and depicts the tumultuous events in a Tamil Brahmin family, set around 1930–1950 in Konkan. Starring Arvind Swamy, Tisca Chopra and Adinath Kothare in the lead roles, production began during late 2013.^[1]

Cast

• Arvind Swamy
• Tisca Chopra
• Adinath Kothare
• Ketaki Mategaonkar
• Tanuja
• Milind Soman
• Murali Sharma
• Urmila Kanitkar
• Vaidehi Parshurami

Production

With the success of the Marathi film Kaksparsh (2012), it was reported in June 2012 that Mahesh Manjrekar was planning a remake in Hindi starring Amitabh Bachchan. However, the director readily clarified that he is not planning for a remake and he did contact Bachchan for the film but not for the remake.^[2][3] Later in November 2013, Manjrekar announced that a Hindi and Tamil remake of Kaksparsh had started and was being directed by himself starring Arvind Swamy, Tisca Chopra, Adinath Kothare and Ketaki Mategaonkar.^[4] Swamy will be portraying Sachin Khedekar's role whereas Chopra will be seen as Swamy's wife, after discussions with actress Chitrangada Singh were unsuccessful.^[5] Mategaonkar will reprise her role from the original and Vaidehi Parshurami will be playing the older Uma. Milind Soman is reported to play Swamy's friend and Adinath Kothare will play Mahadev's character which was originally played by Abhijit Kelkar. Murali Sharma will be seen portraying a negative character.^[6][7] The veteran Bollywood actress Tanuja will be portraying the role of widowed aunt, played by Savita Malpekar in the original. The music will be composed by Ilaiyaraaja with Mategoankar and Vibhavari Apte Joshi rendering their first Tamil song.^[8][9] Adinath Kothare's wife Urmila Kanitkar will be doing a guest appearance.^[10]

The film began production during early 2014 and both version of the film were completed in July 2015.^[11]

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