Navra Maza Navsacha is a 2004 Marathi film. It was later remade in Kannada as Ekadantha. The film stars Sachin Pilgaonkar, Ashok Saraf and Supriya Pilgaonkar in leading roles. The movie portrays the journey of the couple from Mumbai to Ganapati Pule to fulfill a vow. The director remade the movie in Kannada in 2007 as Ekadantha. The plot of the movie is based on the 1972 Hindi filmBombay to Goa, which itself was a remake of 1966 Tamil FilmMadras to Pondicherry.
Plot
Vakratund and Bhakti are a couple who have married against Bhakti's parents wishes. Vakratund, also known as Vacky, is an artist but does not have commercial success. Even after 10 years of marriage the couple is not blessed with children. Bhakti gets to know from Vacky's aunt that Vacky was born by a vow taken by his father. Vacky's father had vowed to God that if his child is born healthy, he will bring his child to Ganapati Pule naked. This vow is left unfulfilled as Vacky's parents pass away. Bhakti tries to persuade Vacky to go to Ganpati Pule naked, but he does not agree to it. Vacky and his friend then hire a small time actor as a sage, who advises them to take a mannequin dressed as Vacky secretly in a public transport to Ganapti Pule to fulfill the vow. Vacky and his friend Kishore manage to sneak the mannequin into a state transport bus the previous night of the travel to Ganapati Pule. However, they are unaware that after their departure from the bus at night, an international smuggler named Babu Kalia who has just escaped from prison and has stolen diamonds worth 80 crore entered the bus and hid the bag filled with diamonds in a hollow of the mannequin. Hilarity ensues as the remaining story has the highs and the lows that the couple face while travelling in the bus to Ganpati Pule. But on reaching Ganpati Pule, they and the passengers are confronted by Police as they have an evidence that Babu Kalia is travelling in the bus to flee to Dubai from Ganpati Pule port. The whole time in the bus from Mumbai to Ganpati Pule, Vacky was drawing the portrait of Babu Kalia with the help of a fellow passenger who knew Babu Kalia. As soon as they complete the sketch, Babu Kalia springs up to his true identity and threatens Vacky and passengers for his diamonds or to kill them all. But Bhakti tells Vacky to take the mannequin to the temple. Vacky reveals that the sage Bhakti met was fake and he had planned this to avoid going naked to Ganpati Pule. However, Vacky still takes away the mannequin to the temple while others run behind him tearing his clothes. By the time he reaches the temple he is completely naked. He completes the vow and the couple are rewarded with 8 crore for catching the gangster. And they live happily thereafter.
The film received good reviews. The Indian Express a prominent Indian daily named it as a part of a Remake Saga. In.com gave a rating of 7.3 out of 10.
