“After Navra Mazha Navsacha, Ashutosh Gowarikar came up with the idea of a film on the lines of Seven Brides … to be made in Marathi. He suggested that I give it a thought and said if I was not too keen he would make it after the completion of Jodhaa Akbar,” says Sachin who after pondering over the idea for some days decided to make it himself since he was a part of its Hindi version Satte Pe Satta in 1982. “I played Sunny, the youngest of the seven brothers in that film. It is one of my favourite films,” he smiled. Aamhi Satpute, he says, is just his interpretation of the original film. It took him two years to work on the script as he got busy with the Kannada film Ekadanta starring Vishnuvardhan, Ramesh Aravind and Prema in between. He had to work on the script of Aamhi Satpute as it required a rustic feel to it as he is making it for the Marathi audience and going by the present taste of the viewers, he has incorporated a lot of technology including the latest, helicam.

Elaborating on how different Aamhi Satpute would be from Satte Pe Satta, Sachin states that he is not touching on the characters of Amjad Khan or Ranjeeta. “My storytelling is very different though there are traces of familiarity.” While Amitabh Bachchan played Ravi, the older brother and Sachin the youngest of all, in Aamhi Satpute, Sachin plays the older brother and Swapnil Joshi is the last of the lot. While in Satte Pe Satta, all the guys were named after weekdays, in Aamhi Satpute, since they are vegetable vendors, the names are Kandya (as in onion), Batatya (potato), Tambya, Kobiya (cabbage), Harbarya (black gram), Todkya (a green vegetable) and Chinklya (core of the onion). They are known as the bhaaji paltan.

Sachin informs that there are some very unique aspects concerning the film. “One of the USPs is that Aamhi Satpute was completed in 45 days which is very rare these days. Secondly a helicam, that is vastly used for advertisements and very rarely for films, has been used for the first time for a Marathi film. It has been mostly used for the introductory song of the seven brothers as well as some chase scenes. This has added to the quality of my project. Thirdly all the six songs are very different from each other, unlike the films of today. Fourthly, there is one song in the film sung by Sonu Niigam but in the voices of Kumar Sanu, Nitin Mukesh, Shabbir Kumar, Adnan Sami as well as in his own voice.”

Talking about the title, Sachin says, “Sathpute is a surname amongst Maharastrians. And since the film has seven brothers, I thought it was an apt name for the film.” Supriya Pilgaonkar, who has been playing his on-screen partner, in most of his films is the heroine in Aamhi Satpute as well. “After winning the Nach Baliye in 2006, people wanted to see us together and since we had already proved our dancing abilities on TV, we decided to showcase it on big screen as well. So we decided to make Aamhi Satpute a dance-oriented musical film,” said the filmmaker adding that the film has six songs, all with a different flavour to it.

Ashok Saraf and Atul Parchure are also in the cast along with five girls and one boy who have been selected from Zee Marathi’s immensely popular a song-dance based reality show Eka Peksha Ek that is produced and judged by Sachin himself. Even as Sachin anxiously awaits the release of Aamhi Satpute on April 18, the maker already has some very ‘interesting projects up his sleeve. I shall open my Pandora Box when the time is right,” he concludes.