Jait Re Jait (English: Win, Win) is 1977 Indian Marathi-language musical film directed by Dr. Jabbar Patel and produced by Usha Mangeshkar and Hridaynath Mangeshkar, under the banner of Mahalakshmi Chitra. The film stars Mohan Agashe and Smita Patil in the lead roles. The film won President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in Marathi at the National Film Awards. It is considered to be one of the greatest musical hits of all time in Marathi cinema. It is based on a book by G. N. Dandekar. Though the music achieved all-time hit status, the film was a box office disaster.

Plot

Jait re jait is a story that revolves around a tribal caste ‘thakar’nagya the protagonist is a drummer,who develops a passion for being “punyavant”[pure one]while growing up listening to his father,he desperately wants to see the “devimassi”[queen bee]his father in childhood peaked nagyas interest in it unknowingly.a girl who leaves her husband because she didn't like him falls in mad love with nagya,once when nagya was cutting wood in jungle bees attack him,nagya seeks revenge he wants to kill them most importantly the queen bee,the queen bee has some religious role in nagya’s tribe tho nagya being stubborn he sets out to flee away the bees with his wife,he does manage to flew them away but in the process his wife gets killed during the time nagya was attacked and attacked back he didn't play drum but even after fleeing the queen bee away he restlessly picked up the drum and started playing it like a mad man he didn't show a single amount of care for his dead wife.This is a classic paradox, where he succeeds (Jait re jait, means WIN-WIN) in his revenge, but loses his wife

Cast

Crew

Music - Amar Direction - Prasad Subhedar and Shrinivas Bhange Camera - Rajan Kothari and Rajesh Joshi

Music

The popular songs of the film are composed by Pt. Hridaynath Mangeshkar, with most of the lyrics by N. D. Mahanor and performed by Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Usha Mangeshkar, Ravindra Sathe and Chandrakant Kale. Poet Arati Prabhu contributed to the lyrics of the song "Me Raat Takli".

Awards

The songs from this film are popular in Maharashtra. The film earned actress Smita Patil and Jabbar Patel Filmfare Awards. Maharashtra State Film Awards for Best Direction was also presented to Patel. The 25th National Film Awards held in April 1978 honoured the film with President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in Marathi for; "'Consistently transferring to the film medium a successful fictional work (Jait re Jait by G. N. Dandekar); for high lightening the mutual inconsistencies of love, of the fear of God and of superstition in a simple, innocent community of tribal, for the memorable use of the drum in evoking presence of the God and expressing the inexorable demands of love for a cinematic form which captures the lyricism, the cadence and the lilt of folk culture.'" The film was shot on locations of Maharashtra in Karnala, Khalapur, Kumbhavali and Thakarwadi in Raigad District. The titles appeared after 15 minutes after the start of the film and the song-mee raat taakli—appeared after 50 minutes after the start of the film.