 2009 saw the blockbuster musical movie "Natarang", which both commercial and critical applause and has served as a path-breaking movie for Marathi cinema.Since the new decade beginning in 2010, several contemporary Marathi artistic films released including Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni's "Vihir" and "Deool", and Nagraj Manjule's "Fandry".They have given a new direction to Marathi films.