Satish Rajwade (born 9 January 1973) is an Indian

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and television director and writer. He has also acted in few Hindi films and Marathi television series.

Career

Rajwade started his career with acting in various Hindi and Marathi films along with theatre. He then moved to television as a director and writer. He has also worked as an assistant to director

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. Rajwade got interested in acting after mother sent him to an acting workshop for kids during his summer. To pursue a career in acting, he joined Mithibai College, Vile Parle. During his college years, he acted in 75 one-act plays for his college in Marathi, Hindi, English as well as Gujarati for which he won many awards including the INT Best Actor in a Comic Role award for a Marathi one-act play ''Aambaa''. The Best Comic Actor award fetched Satish Rajwade a role in his first professional play ''Tur Tur'' by Kedar Shinde. But his first big break came when he was spotted by

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and Mohan Wagh and was offered a role in ''All The Best'', which had 890 shows. A casting director spotted Satish Rajwade during one of these performances and offered him a role in a Hindi film. Rajwade then went on to play small roles in various Hindi Films like ''Sanshodhan, Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa, Nidaan, Vaastav'' and ''Josh.''Rajwade then started working in the editing studios of B.R.Chopra without a salary for almost a year. Soon he wanted to be a director. Along with his friend Naveen Upadhyay, he directed his first pilot episode starring Mohan Joshi and

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. Blaze Music Company liked their work and offered him to direct a music video ''Na Jaane Kyun'' starring model

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which became an instant hit on the music charts. Pleased with the success of the music video, Blaze Music Company CEOs offered to let Satish Rajwade direct the marathi movie, ''Mrugjal'', which went on to bag 23 awards. Rajwade went on to direct his first serial ''Duniyadari'', for Zee Marathi, which was followed by ''Kinara'' and ''Reshim Gaathi''. He co-directed ''Oon Pawus'' for which he also won the ''Ma. Ta. Sanmaan'' Best Director award. He then directed Asambhav and later went on to direct the first 30 episodes of ''Weg'' on Saam Marathi. He later directed ''

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'' on

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and ''

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'' & '' Eka Lagnachi Dusri Goshta'' on

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. He has also worked on many projects with actress

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. His latest film '' Badam Rani Gulam Chor'' is based on popular Marathi play '' Makdachya Haati Champagne'' (literally: ''Champagne in the hands of a monkey'') and features

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, Pushkar Shotri and Anand Ingale in lead roles. His last release was '' Preamachi Goshta''. He has also acted in movie '' Bhay'' and '' Time Barvait''.

Filmography

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