Marathi film stars join MNS

Accepting the leadership of Raj Thackeray led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) for promoting Marathi cinema in Maharashtra, top Marathi film actors on Thursday joined the Maharastra Navnirman Chitrapat Karmachari Sena. The MNCKS till now has enrolled around 10,000 technicians, artistes and workers from the film industry and is expected to cross the 25,000 mark in coming month.

Joining the MNS cine wing were Marathi superstar Makrand Anaspure, Ajinkya Deo, Prasad Oak, Sayaji Shinde, Priya Berde, Vinay edekar among many. Speaking on the occasion, Anaspure expressed his gratitude towards Raj Thackeray and MNS for helping out the Marathi film industry in times of crisis. " There are so many problems for the promotion of Marathi film, right from lack of money for advertising to availability of theatre to release the cinema.

When I met Raj Thackeray, he had made a number of important suggestions to solve the problems. We are here, because these people have worked for our Marathi film industry. There is no political pressure on us to join the organisation," said Anaspure. Leading Marathi star Prasad Oak thanked MNCKS for supporting his film in the past, even when he was not the member of the association.

"They have helped us in real. The opposition would understand now that, we are not alone," he said. Sayaji Shinde, who has worked in Marathi, Hindi and in Southern films, mentioned that the unity of cine artistes which is extremely strong in Southern states should be seen in Maharashtra also. " They have such a strong and strict union, that it is the necessity of our state as well," Shinde said.