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  About Ashwamedh Kalamanch's Hasya Jatra

ASHWAMEDH KALAMANCH: 

Ashwamedh Kalamanch was an Art and Cultural in Virar, Maharashtra started by Mr. Deepak Doddamani on 1st August 2010. This group created several short films, web series, Marathi dramas, and Social Ads for Three years. It was ultimately closed in July 2013 deciding that it will be relaunched as a Production company with the name 'Indifame Media' in the future. 

HASYA JATRA:

 Hasya Jatra was the first Marathi Web Series on YouTube which had 10 webisodes aired in the span of the year 2011. 

Artists: 

Most of the episodes of Ashwamedh Kalamanch's Hasya Jatra were comedy and written and directed by Deepak Doddamani. Rakesh Dudwadkar anchored the first few episodes and you can see Jitendra Patel, Rupali More. Deepak Doddamani also anchoring later episodes. Ashwamedh Kalamanch consists of the following Team Members who participated in the Hasya Jatra.

1) Deepak Doddamani - Deepak was the Founder and Director of Ashwamedh Kalamanch. In Hasya Jatra he played diversified roles like Writer, Anchor, Director, Cameraman, Editor, etc.

2) Rakesh Dudwadkar: Rakesh was the Co-founder of  Ashwamedh Kalamach who also produced Lakh Lakh Chanderi Ekankika for Ashwamedh Kalamanch and was Anchor and actor in Hasya Jatra. Rakesh can be seen in action in the Acting field as a Junior Artist in many supporting roles in Marathi serials. 

3) Anant Chavan: Anant Chavan was the backbone of Ashwamedh Kalamanch. Being the most experienced actor in the group he was our Mentor in the group. He had the experience of working with Marathi Actors like Bhushan Kadu, Nirmiti Sawant and Satish Tare, etc. in Shaymchi Mummy, Jau Bai Jorat, etc dramas. He learned acting skills from Director Purushottam Berde and worked in several dramas before surviving the Accident of their Drama bus which also had Nirmiti Sawant in it. 

It took him one complete year to recover from the accident and none of the Marathi Industry people helped him financially during this period. So he said Good Bye to the field and became LIC agent. He made his comeback in the acting field through Short Film 'Nakoshi' by Ashwamedh Kalamanch. Nakoshi won first prize in the Vasai Mahotsav that year.  One day when a crew could not reach Virar he did a One-Act Play which became the Second Episode of Hasya Jatra. You can see him in 2-3 more episodes of Hasya Jatra. 

4) Abhijeet Sakpal

5) Abdul Hakim Ansari

6) Rajendra Balsara

7) Jitendra Patel

8) Shailesh More

9) Rupali 

10) Ashish Chavan

Criticism: 

Foul Language: This Web Series got a good response from the audience and also criticism for using abusive language in one of the episodes 'ShyamSundar Telecaller'. In those days people didn't know what Web Series means. So those reactions were obvious. If you will compare the language with today's Web series language, you will realize those days content was very crude and abusive words, vulgarity was quite low in proportion. 

Low Production value: The Web Series was shot in the house of Deepak Doddamani with Handycam. The only budget involved was food and refreshment of team members. 

Appreciation:

Entertainment: Web Series was really entertaining and had good scripts and acts. Rakesh Dudwadkar, Anant Chavan, and Abhijeet Sakpal were really good in comic skits, and they managed to create laughter in the audience who saw the series. The scripts also included current affairs of that time like 'Anna Andolan', Earth Quake and Disaster Management, Call Center culture, and so on. The poster of Hasya Jatra was created by Saaket. Our ideas like using laughter at the beginning of Webisodes and the bloopers videos at the end of every webisode were refreshing for the viewers. Hasya Jatra got a really good response from the audience.