Ashish Ningurkar's Marathi film 'Ek Hota Pani' bags a special jury award at an International Film Festival

Marathi cinema's popular scriptwriter and actor, Ashish Ningurkar's last released film '

Ek Hota Pani

' has bagged the

Special Jury award

at an International Film Festival.

The film sheds light on the most important issue of drought and need for

water conservation

. It featured stars like Anant Jog, Hansraj Jagtap,

Sriya Mastekar

, Chaitra Bhujbal,

Ganesh Mayekar

, Yatin Karyekar, Ranjit Jog, Jairaj Nair, Ashish Ningurkar and Upendra Datey.

While speaking exclusively with Etimes, Ashish said "Our film has also received five awards in different categories (which includes the best feature film, Best Writer, Best Subject, Best Poster and for the title song). We came up with the concept of 'Ek Hota Pani' to draw the attention of the audience to the most important issue of water, which is crucial in our life"

Rohan Satghare's directorial 'Ek Hota Pani' was produced under the banner of V.P. World Movies and also produced by Vijay Tiwari and

Pravin Bhujbal

.