Vasant Joglekar is the director ofHa Khel Savalyancha (transl. This Game of Shadows),[2] a 1976 IndianMarathi-languagecrime thriller[3][4][a] produced by Sumati Gupte-Joglekar[6] and starringAsha Kale andKashinath Ghanekar star in the lead roles.[7]Ha Khel Savalyancha includes elements of horror and received critical and commercial acclaim at the time of his released;[8] it is still considered a "superhit" of Marathi cinema.[5] For that film,Hridaynath Mangeshkar won the Ganeshan Award in Best Music Director category[9] and Manohar Aacharya for Best colour photography.[10] The film was said to be "deeply rooted in the village life ofMaharastra".[11]
^In the book "Marathi Cinema: In Retrospect" by Sanjit Narvwekar, the film genre referred to is "suspense thriller,"[5] and in Indian Horror Cinema: (En)gendering the Monstrous book it referred as horror genre.
^Sanjit Narwekar; Raghuvir Kul; D. B. Samant.Marathi Cinema: in retrospect. Maharashtra Film, Stage & Cultural Development Corporation. p. 76.Directorial talent like V.Shantaram, Vishram Bedekar and Gajanan Jagirdar, who had given Marathi cinema an edge in the 1930s, and Vasant Joglekar, who had shown tremendous potential, was being drained out of the Marathi industry as it migrated to the more prosperous Hindi film industry.
