Ajoba

Ajoba
Directed by	Sujay Dahake
Written by	Gauri Bapat
Screenplay by	Gauri Bapat
Produced by	Lalasaheb Shinde Rajendra Shinde
Starring	Urmila Matondkar
Cinematography	Diego Romero
Music by	Saket Kanetkar
Production companies	Supreme Motion Pictures Pvt Ltd Illusion Ethereal
Release date	9 May 2014 (2014-05-09)
Country	India
Language	Marathi

Ajoba is a 2014 Indian Marathi-language film directed by Sujay Dahake and written by Gauri Bapat. Allegedly based on true events, ^[1] it tells the story of a leopard's remarkable 29 days journey from Malshej Ghat to Mumbai. Ajoba was rescued from a well and a tracking device was fixed on his neck, before being released back into the wild. ^[2] He made his way to Mumbai over the Sahyadris, a distance of 120 kilometres (75 mi). ^[3]

Plot

Ajoba, a farmland leopard, who is the subject of a research project ventures out in the wild, completing a journey of around one hundred and twenty kilometers from Malshej Ghat to Mumbai.

Cast

• Urmila Matondkar as Ms. Purva Rao
• Hrishikesh Joshi as Dnyanoba Sawant
• Dilip Prabhavalkar as Prabhakar Sarnaik
• Shrikant Yadav as Mr. Shinde
• Om Bhutkar as Shiva Kamble
• Neha Mahajan as Sushma
• Shashank Shende as Mr. Jadhav
• Suhas Shirsat as Mr. Ganpule
• Anita Date-Kelkar as Mugdha
• Chinmay Kulkarni as Nilesh
• Yashpal Sharma
• Ganesh Mayekar

References

1. "Marathi film 'Ajoba' based on a leopard's fascinating journey, Urmila plays a wildlife biologist". Daily Bhaskar. 13 June 2013. Archived from the original on 4 August 2016.
2. Ateeq Shaikh (23 March 2014). "A leopard named 'Ajoba' shows the way". DNA.
3. Deeksha Sharma (9 May 2014). "Ajoba director Sujay Dahake Interview: The amazing journey of a leopard". DNA.

External links

• Ajoba at IMDb