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Maharashtra State Film Award
Maharashtra State Film Awards, one of the prestigious awards of Marathi cinema, are awarded by the Government of Maharashtra to Marathi language films and artists. They were first awarded in 1963. Winners 2000 This year's award ceremony took place at Dadaji Kondadev Stadium, Thane, with the then Chief Minister of Maharashtra (late) Vilasrao Deshmukh inaugurating the function. Actor Ashok Saraf won his eleventh award for Best Actor in the Comic Role category. The following awards were presented: * V Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award – Bhagwan Dada and Vasant Dada Painter * Best Film – ''Gabhara'' * Best Actor – Sachin Khedekar for ''Gharabaher'' * Best Actress – Aishwarya Narkar for ''Ghe Bharari'' * Best Supporting Actor – Suhas Palshikar for ''Gabhara'' * Best Supporting Actress – Jyoti Chandale for ''Gabhara'' * Best Actor in a Comic Role – Ashok Saraf * Best Actress in a Comic Role – Neena Sawant for ''Bindhaast'' * Best Actor (Critics) – Mohan Joshi f ...
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Marathi Cinema
Marathi cinema is an Indian film industry of Marathi-language motion pictures. It is based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Based in old Mumbai, it is the oldest film industry of Indian cinema. The first Marathi film to be released in India was ''Shree Pundalik'' by Dadasaheb Torne on 18 May 1912 at Coronation Cinematograph, Mumbai. and a Marathi crew who were performing Marathi and Sanskrit (musicals) and plays in Marathi at that period. The first Marathi talkie film, ''Ayodhyecha Raja'', was released in 1932, just one year after ''Alam Ara'' the first Hindi talkie. Although the industry is much smaller than Hindi cinema (which is also primarily based in Mumbai), Marathi cinema is tax free at the privilege of the state of Maharashtra, and is experiencing growth in recent years. ''Raja Harishchandra'', directed by Dadasaheb Phalke, was a Marathi film, now known as India's first full-length feature, released in 1913. The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is India's highest award in cinema given ...
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Sukanya Kulkarni
Sukanya Kulkarni Mone is an Indian actress who mainly works in Hindi and Marathi films and serials. Personal life Kulkarni was born in a Hindu family. She is married to Marathi veteran actor Sanjay Mone. The couple has one daughter, Julia Mone. Filmography Television References External links Sukanya Kulkarnion IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, ... 20th-century Indian actresses 21st-century Indian actresses 1968 births Living people {{India-film-bio-stub ...
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Nandita Das
Nandita Das (born 7 November 1969) is an Indian actress and director. She has acted in over 40 feature films in ten different languages. Das appeared in the films ''Fire'' (1996), ''Earth'' (1998), ''Bawandar'' (2000), ''Kannathil Muthamittal'' (2002), '' Azhagi'' (2002)'','' '' Kamli'' (2006), and ''Before The Rains'' (2007). Her directorial debut '' Firaaq'' (2008), premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and travelled to more than 50 festivals, winning more than 20 awards. Her second film as a director was ''Manto'' (2018). Based on the life of 20th Century Indo-Pakistani short story writer Sadat Hasan Manto, the film was screened at Cannes Film Festival in the "Un Certain Regard" section. In September 2019, Das produced a two-minute Public Service Announcement music videIndia's Got Colour The music video is about the issue of colourism and urges the audience to celebrate India's diversity of skin colour. Her first book, 'Manto & I', chronicles her 6-year long journey of makin ...
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Umesh Kamat
Umesh Kamat (born 12 December 1978) is an Indian actor and model, who predominantly works in Marathi regional films, Marathi television series, Marathi plays and TV commercials. He is known as a star of daily soaps with a series of great daily soaps in recent years. Some of his memorable roles are Adinath Shastri from ''Asambhav'', Nishad from ''Shubham Karoti''. But, the most popular role of him was of Adv. Om Chaudhary in '' Eka Lagnachi Teesri Goshta'', aired in 2013, in which he was paired with Spruha Joshi. His recent film was ''Mumbai Time'', which was released in February 2016. Personal life Kamat married to Priya Bapat Priya Bapat (born 18 September 1986) is an Indian actress who mainly works in Marathi films. She is best known for her roles in the movies ''Kaksparsh'' and ''Aamhi Doghi'', for which she won the Best Actress award at the Screen Awards in 201 ... in 2011. Media image Filmography Films Theatre Television Web series References Extern ...
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Umesh Jadhav
Umesh Gopaldev Jadhav is an Indian politician who is serving as Member of Parliament in the 17th Lok Sabha from Gulbarga (Lok Sabha constituency), Kalaburagi Lok Sabha constituency since 23 May 2019. He was an Indian National Congress party's MLA from Chincholi Assembly Constituency. Later, he resigned from the Congress party in March 2019 and then he joined (BJP) Bharatiya Janata Party and contested Lok Sabha elections from Gulbarga and was elected as a Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha). Life and education Jadhav was born to Gopaldev and hails from Gulbarga. He completed his Master of Surgery in General Surgery in 1991 from Bangalore Medical College. He is a doctor by profession. Positions held *Member of the Legislative Assembly from Chincholi (Vidhan Sabha constituency) , Chincholi : 2013 to 2018 *Parliamentary Secretary Health and Family welfare department. *Member of the Legislative Assembly from Chincholi 2018– 2 April 2019 *Member Of Parliament 17th Loksabha from G ...
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Ajit Parab
Ajit Parab ( mr, अजित परब) is an Indian music director and composer and also a film playback singer and an actor. Early life He studied at D. G. Ruparel College, Matunga, Mumbai-400016 (Mumbai University) and D.G. Ruparel College. He did his schooling from D.B. Kulkarni School. Career Parab started his career as music director in the film Huppa Haiyya in Marathi. He composes music for films and has also sung songs in films. He does acting in the Marathi films. He gave the music to the film Me Shivajiraje Bhosale Boltoy along with Ajay Atul which was very popular. Recently, he gave the music to the film Natsamrat and also acted in it. Discography Films {, class="wikitable sortable" , - ! , Year ! , Film ! , Language ! , Contribution , - , 2010 , , ''Huppa Huiyya'' , , Marathi , , Soundtrack , - , 2012 , , ''Aayna Ka Bayna ''Aayna Ka Bayna'' also known as ''Delinquent Dancers'' is a 2012 Marathi-language musical drama film written and dire ...
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Vastupurush
''Vastupurush: The Guardian Spirit of the House'' (or simply ''Vastupurush'') is a 2002 Indian Marathi film directed by filmmaker duo Sumitra Bhave–Sunil Sukthankar and produced by National Film Development Corporation of India. It is about Bhaskar, who rises above his poor financial conditions and devotes himself to the poor people for his mother believes that their generations have been cursed by the ''Vastupurush'' for doing wrong to people of lower castes. The film won several awards on release including the Best Feature Film in Marathi at the 50th National Film Awards and eight awards at the 40th Maharashtra State Film Awards in 2003. Plot Bhaskar Deshpande (played by Mahesh Elkunchwar) has been awarded with the coveted Ramon Magsaysay Award for his dedicated works in preventive medicine in the slums of Mumbai. Bhaskar decides to visit his hometown village after forty years and as he walks through the ruins of his old ancestral house, the events unfold in his memory. ...
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Sumitra Bhave
Sumitra ( sa, सुमित्रा, IAST: Sumitrā) is a princess of Kashi in Hindu mythology. The wise Sumitra is the third queen consort of Dasharatha, the king of Kosala, who ruled from Ayodhya. She is the mother of the twins Lakshmana and Shatrughna as mentioned in the Hindu epic, the Ramayana. Etymology The name Sumitra is of Sanskrit origin, and could be divided into ''Su'' meaning good, and ''Mitra,'' meaning friend''.'' Thus'','' her name means 'a good friend' or 'one with a friendly nature'. She is known in other languages as Tamil: சுமித்திரை, Burmese: Thumitra, Malay: Samutra, Khmer '' and '' th, สมุทรเทวี ''Samutthra Thewi''). Legend At the sacrifice conducted by Rishyasringa to obtain sons for the childless Dasharatha, a divine being emerged from the flames with a golden vessel filled with divine ''payasam''. Dasharatha offered half to Kausalya, a quarter (literally half of that which remained) to Sumitra, an eigh ...
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Sumitra Bhave–Sunil Sukthankar
Sumitra Bhave (12 January 1943 19 April 2021) and Sunil Sukthankar (born 31 May 1966) were an Indian filmmaker duo working predominantly in Marathi cinema and Marathi theatre. Bhave and Sukthankar had made seventeen feature films, more than fifty short films, and four TV serials; all of which had been written by Bhave. Sunil Sukthankar, a Film and Television Institute of India graduate (1989) is also an actor and a lyricist. He has written more than 90 songs for their own films as well as various other Marathi and Hindi films. The duo had won various national and international accolades for the films ''Doghi'' (1995), '' Dahavi Fa'' (2002), ''Vastupurush'' (2002), ''Devrai'' (2004), ''Astu'' (2016) and ''Kaasav'' (2017). At the 64th National Film Awards, their feature film ''Kaasav'' won the prestigious President Golden Lotus National Award. Personal life Sumitra Bhave Bhave was born on 12 January 1943 in Pune. She completed her graduation from Fergusson College, Pune, an ...
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Reema Lagoo
Reema Lagoo (born Nayan Bhadbhade; 21 June 1958 – 18 May 2017) was an Indian theatre and screen actress known for her work in Hindi and Marathi cinema. She began her acting career in the Marathi theatre, after which she became a household name for playing motherly roles in the 1990s and early 2000s. She became a household name after her roles in the 90s classic TV sitcoms '' Shriman Shrimati'' (as Kokila Kulkarni) and as Devaki Verma starring opposite Supriya Pilgaonkar in ''Tu Tu Main Main''. Career Lagoo's career as an actor began as a child, influenced by her mother, who was a Marathi stage and film actress. She appeared in five films including ''Masterji'', directed by Durga Khote. Her senior career continued in Marathi stage after a long gap following work as a child artiste. It began with her coming to Mumbai and appearing in P. L. Deshpande's play, an adaptation of ''My Fair Lady''. However, she received wider recognition with roles in television serials, Hindi and M ...
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Shreyas Talpade
Shreyas Talpade (born 27 January 1976) is an Indian actor, film director and producer who appears in Hindi and Marathi films. He has appeared in several critically and commercially successful films. He is better known for his role as Shah Rukh Khan's friend Pappu Master in ''Om Shanti Om'' (2007), the grand reincarnation melodrama of Farah Khan. He appeared in the comedies ''Golmaal Returns'' (2008), ''Welcome to Sajjanpur (2008), ''Golmaal 3'' (2010), ''Housefull 2'' (2012) and ''Golmaal Again'' (2017). Talpade dubbed for Allu Arjun in the Hindi version of '' Pushpa: The Rise''. Early life Shreyas Talpade was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra on 27 January 1976. His father is the brother of actresses Meena T. and Jayshree T. (full name "Jayshri Talpade"). Shreyas attended Shree Ram Welfare Society’s High School in Andheri West followed by Mithibai College in Vile Parle. He is married to Deepti Talpade, a psychiatrist. Career Talpade began his acting career appearing in Marathi ...
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Ministry Of Information And Broadcasting (India)
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (Ministry of I&B) is a ministerial level agency of the Government of India responsible for the formulation and administration of rules, regulations and laws in the areas of information, broadcasting, the press and the Cinema of India. The Ministry is responsible for the administration of Prasar Bharati, the broadcasting arm of the Indian Government. The Central Board of Film Certification is the other important statutory body under this ministry being responsible for the regulation of Cinema of India, motion pictures broadcast in India. Organisation * Broadcasting ** Conditional Access System (CAS) ** Community radio, Community Radio Stations ** Prasar Bharati ** Doordarshan ** All India Radio, Akashvani (All India Radio) ** Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited ** Uplinking / Downlinking of TV Channels ** Content Regulation on Private TV Channels ** Direct to Home (DTH) ** Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) ** Headend-in-th ...
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