found a dusty, unlabelled film canister. Scrawled on the side in faded ink were the words "Kat-Movie." To

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was obsessed with the golden era of Marathi cinema—the era of V. Shantaram and the timeless music of Hridaynath Mangeshkar. However, in the modern world of fast-paced streaming and viral clips, he felt the soul of Marathi storytelling was being lost to commercial "masala" copies.