Mother's Day 2020: 'Hirkani' to 'Rajmata Jijau'; Marathi movies that celebrate the spirit of motherhood

Mother’s Day, this year is not going to be a normal affair with the lockdown across the country preventing visiting your family or taking your mom out for a special meal.

For those living away from home and missing your parents in these troubled times, here’s a list of Marathi movies you and your mother can binge together on this Mother's day.

'Hirkani' is a Prasad Oak film where Sonalee Kulkarni is in the titular role of 'Hirkani', a brave woman and an amazing mother who lived near the Raigad Fort in Maharashtra during the regime Chhatrapati Shivaji. This also one of the most loved movies about Sonalee Kulkarni as Mother and you could watch this Mother's Day.

A Yashwant Bhalkar directorial, this movie starred Dr. Smita Deshmukh, Amol Kolhe, Milind Gunaji, Rahul Solapurkar, Aarti Shinde, Vedant Gundu, Nikhil Nerlekar, Shivam Jadhav and Chandrashekhar Saudagar. The story revolves around the life journey of Rajmata Jijau. It's about her teachings and values. It's about the formation of Shivaji Raje.

Marathi film written and directed by Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti and produced by Nagraj Manjule. It is a beautiful piece of work, mostly because of an emotional story and performances. Chaitanya, an eight-year-old mischievous boy living in a remote village in Maharashtra and is a son of a small-time landlord and loving mother. The movies explore Chaitanya's emotional world and follow him on an unexpected journey.

'Zale Mokale Aakash' is a Marathi drama. Neha (Pallavi Vaidya) and Samir (Subodh Bhave) find out that their adopted child has special needs. Samir is unable to handle the situation and takes some rash decisions. Complications arise with the arrival of the child’s biological mother.

Bucket List is a 2018 Indian Marathi language comedy-drama film directed by Tejas Prabha Vijay Deoskara. The film begins with dedicated housewife Madhura (Madhuri Dixit) cooking a custom-made meal for each of her family members (husband Mohan (Sumeet Raghavan), daughter, son, in-laws and grandmother-in-law). She is clearly shown to have dedicated her entire existence towards keeping her family happy, from sunrise to sunset.

'Mee Sindhutai Sapkal' by Ananth Narayan Mahadevan is a saga that will touch hearts and motivate every human being to fight against all odds and emerge successfully. In today's day and age, where films revolving around the subject of women empowerment are gaining importance, this movie, based on the real-life story of Sindhutai Sapkal and her works is awe-inspiring. Tejaswini Pandit has played the character so well that the audience will resonate with it.