‘Tighee’: How Jeejivisha Kale shaped her Marathi debut feature

It has been an affectional infinitesimal for debutante filmmaker Jeejivisha Kale arsenic her Marathi feature, Tighee, is having a beardown theatrical run. After a dilatory commencement erstwhile it was released connected March 6, the movie picked up momentum successful the consequent weeks arsenic it was discussed, deconstructed and recommended crossed societal media. Jeejivisha was overwhelmed erstwhile she was contiguous during the film’s archetypal houseful show. “To beryllium capable to spot audiences reactions feels similar a immense validation aft the magnitude of hard enactment enactment into making the film. I anticipation each passionate filmmaker gets to acquisition this,” Jeejivisha says.

Producer Suhrud Godbole feels that the effect to the movie has been encouraging. “It shows that radical are not funny successful lone 1 benignant of cinema. Different stories tin co-exist arsenic well. The information that Tighee is moving successfully alongside Dhurandharis precise reassuring,” helium says.

At the bosom of Tighee is simply a stirring narration betwixt 2 estranged siblings, Swati (Neha Pendse) and Sarika (Sonalee Kulkarni) and the tumultuous enslaved they stock with their ailing mother, Hemlata (Bharti Achrekar). The screenplay, written by Nikhil Mahajan (also co-producer) with dialogues by Prajakt Deshmukh, delves into the disfigured complexities of big beingness arsenic the daughters travel to presumption with the conflicted shadows of their past. Jeejivisha got the archetypal thought for the movie erstwhile she was connected her archetypal solo travel successful 2024. This was a clip erstwhile she was actively reasoning of stories to tell, aft having assisted successful Marathi films like, Jaundya Na Balasaheb, Vazandar: Biggie and Vaalvi. There was a consciousness of “readiness” that she felt within.

“Somewhere I knew that I wanted to research the communicative of siblings due to the fact that I americium a azygous kid myself and truthful is Nikhil. So, our regard towards siblings is that of observation. I person been capable to witnesser a batch of siblings up close, arsenic they lived their lives portion I looked on from the outside. I would besides often deliberation what if I had a sibling, an elder sister, successful my beingness too?”, Jeejivisha says.

The communicative of the siblings is told with a moody reverberance arsenic the gloomy bearings of rainfall becomes portion of the film’s aesthetics, reflecting the affectional out-pours of the characters, who find themselves consumed with the burdens of being. “We knew that rainfall was portion of the movie from the screenplay signifier arsenic it features cloudy relationships with the communicative moving towards clarity. Further, each the crew, whether it was the cinematographer oregon dependable designer, were connected the aforesaid leafage with respect to the affectional exploration of the story. And erstwhile we each cognize what we are trying to say, the occupation is conscionable to execute it,” says the fimmaker.

The movie was changeable wrong 20 days and was acceptable by November 2025. However, it faced immoderate trouble successful getting cleared from the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), perchance owed to immoderate of the mature themes explored successful the 2nd half. Producer Suhrud Godbole says that they were waiting till the past time to get the movie certified. “The ‘A’ certificate is decidedly not perfect and it has impacted the concern of the movie successful immoderate way. However, that is simply a communicative for different day. Our co-producer Shardul Singh Bayas stood similar a stone down the movie during this time. Once the particulate settles, we are readying to talk astir the struggles that we went done with the censors,” helium says.

Even portion exploring immoderate of these analyzable themes, Jeejivisha treats the movie with a delicate sensitivity, which extends adjacent to the performances of the actors, that are timed without a interaction of melodrama. There is simply a rigorous immediacy done which Neha, Sonalee and Bharti behaviour themselves, particularly successful immoderate of the much poignant sequences. Jeejivisha carries a nuanced knowing of theatrics, which she feels comes from being a voracious scholar since she was a child.

“While reading, I would ideate the characters speaking successful a definite manner. Similarly, portion speechmaking the script, I would perceive the characters speaking. Those voices and expressions of characters stayed successful my head. So, I was good with thing that came person to that dependable successful the performances,” Jeejivisha explains.

On the different hand, she treats the affectional scenes with grace. “The moments wherever audiences consciousness similar crying are those wherever the quality wants to outcry but they cannot bash so. They privation to accidental thing which they can’t and that affects the viewer. This is besides wherever the acquisition of actors came into play wherever they knew however to clasp an emotion conscionable capable to marque the assemblage consciousness its intensity,” she says.

Tighee is besides important for however relentlessly it portrays the conditions of womanhood. In Jeejivisha’s dignified hands, the movie finds an assured, susceptible release. Suhrud shares however the actors mentioned to him the chiseled acquisition of being directed by a pistillate filmmaker. “There are immoderate things which men conscionable cannot understand. The actors recovered it a refreshing alteration to spot the communicative from the position of a woman. We request much of that arsenic men are intelligibly not doing a large occupation successful the satellite close now. So, I don’t caput women taking implicit for immoderate time,” helium quips.

Jeejivisha, however, doesn’t look astatine her filmmaking process from the binaries of gender. “When I americium making a film, I americium not reasoning of myself arsenic a ‘woman filmmaker’. I americium conscionable directing a movie successful a mode that seems the astir integrated to me. Its effect tin beryllium felt by others who are moving with me,” she says and concludes, “I americium simply doing my enactment based connected my lived acquisition arsenic a woman; truthful immoderate I bash volition travel retired from that gaze.”

Tighee is presently moving successful theatres