Malvani is sometimes used for sarcastic newspaper articles and local folk stage dramas known as Dashavatar.
[citation needed] The first ever Drama (Natak) was Vastraharan, which got huge popularity starring Macchindra Kambli.
The Zee Marathi channel's February 2016 serial Ratris Khel Chale was a horror TV serial on the life of the Naik family from Malvan, and used Malvani as the main dialect.
In 2019, movie named Picasso was released on Amazon prime which was based on the story of struggling artist of dashavtar (malvani art form).
[3] Other noted Marathi movies based on Malvani culture are Narbachi Wadi (2013),[4] Murder Mestry (2015),[5] and Redu (2017).