Baba (Father) is an important film, representing the long-overdue shaadi between the Bollywood and Marathi film industries. Directed by Raj R Gupta, in Marathi, and starring the delightful Deepak Dobriyal, it is produced by Sanjay Dutt, Maanyata Dutt and Ashok Subhedar. More efforts by Bollywood to do hawala of its sins of a century and purify itself by producing Marathi films.

Of course, there have been many examples of the Bollywood-Marathi arranged marriage, including Umesh Kulkarni's exquisite Vihir (The Well, produced by Amitabh Bachchan's ABCL), Ventilator (Priyanka Chopra) and Sachin Kundalkar's Aiyya (Anurag Kashyap-Viacom 18). It's an uneasy truce, because Bollywood is a universe unto itself, and Marathi cinema has a powerful, rooted tradition, and draws deeply from intellectually rigorous Marathi theatre. So, Bollywood feels usko bahut upar jaana hai, and Marathi cinema feels usko bahut neeche aana hai, until they find a middle ground. But, each industry has such complementary strengths, that it is vital they keep trying until they consistently produce solid, mutually satisfying films.