1. Smita Talwalkar
Smita Talwalkar was a director, actress and producer in Marathi Cinema. She is well-known for her work like Tu Tithe Mee.
Smita Talwalkar was born on 5 September, 1954. Before her marriage, her name was Smita Govilkar. She got married when she was 17 years old. She has a son, Amber Talwalkar who is the director of the health club chain, Talwalkars. Amber got married to the famous Marathi actress, Sulekha Talwalkar. Smita also has one more daughter-in-law. She also is an actress, Purnima Talwalkar. Smita was suffering from ovarian cancer. It was diagnosed in 2010 and she was being cured with chemotherapy. However, she died at Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai on 6 August 2014 at the age of 59.
Smita was a newsreader in her early professional lif...
2. Aditi Sarangdhar
Aditi Sarangdhar is an Indian actress, who is a household name for the Marathi audience and best known for her lead role as a cop, Saloni Deshmukh, in Star Pravah’s crime-thriller “Lakshya” (2015). She was born on 16 October 1981 in Kalyan, Maharashtra to Shaila and Dr. Dipak Sarangdhar. She has two sisters, Amita and Nikita. She graduated with a degree in philosophy from the Ramnarain Ruia College in Mumbai, where she excelled as a theatre actress in Ekankinas (one-act plays).
She won the best actress award at Sawai Inter College Drama Competition in 2000 for “Majula,” directed by Nishikant Kamat. She was discovered by Kanchan Adhikari, who admired her ever since she saw her act as the lead character in Sameer Limaye’s stage play “Litmus.” Afterward, Adhikari cast her as a centra...
3. Vandana Gupte
Vandana Gupte is a legendary Marathi actress who can also be seen in Hindi TV serials. She has done numerous Marathi plays and is a popular theatre personality. She is a well known actress in Marathi cinema. She made her debut with Marathi movie Lapandav (1993), in which she portrayed the role of a lawyer. In 2006, she played a role of mother-in-law in Marathi movie Matichya Chuli.
Classical singer Manik Verma and Amar Verma are her parents and she is the sister of Bharti Achrekar and Rani Verma. She has worked in many Marathi movies and has been nominated for various movie awards. She played the role of Mrs. Archrekar in cricket based Bollywood movie titled “Meerabai Not Out” and portrayed the role of Mrs....
4. Akshay Pendse
Akshay Pendse is an actor and performer who predominantly appears in Marathi movies. He was born on November 12th, 1979 in Pune. He completed his high school and higher secondary education at Nutan Marathi Vidyalaya, Pune. He pursued his master's in arts from the University of Pune. He later relocated to Mumbai to begin his career as an actor. Akshay Pendse began his career as an actor by acting in the short film directed by Amol Palekar, "Karrie". In 2004, he acted in the Marathi movie "Uttarayan." He played the character of Sanjay, which was noted by the Marathi audience.
He later acted in "Kaydyacha Bola," a Marathi film starring Makarand Anaspure, Umesh Kamat, Sachin Khedekar, Arun Nalawade, Sanjay Mone, and Amita Khopkar. In this movie, he played the character of Harshavardhan Ghodke....
5. Bal Karve
Bal Karve is an established Indian stage/ film actor. He was born and raised in Pune. He is known for his performance in Marathi theatre, television, and Marathi movies. He started acting in 1977 with the film “Banya Bapu.” It was directed by Govind Kulkarni. Bal Karve is seen playing the role of “Bapu” in the Marathi movie. In 1978 he got to be a part of the play “Suryachi Pille” directed by Damu Kenkre. The play featured Madhav Vatve, Dilip Prabhavalkar, Mohan Gokhale, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, and Shanta Jog. The same year he appeared in two Marathi movies, “Chandra Hota Sakshila” and “Chandoba Chandoba Bhaglas Ka.” He has also done a Marathi TV serial named “Chimanrao Gundyabhau.”
It was a sitcom based on CV Joshi’s books on Doordarshan. In 1981 he app...
6. Subodh Bhave
Subodh Bhave is an actor and director in the Marathi film industry. He was born on 9th November 1975 in Pune, Maharashtra, India. He lives in Mumbai. Subodh Bhave pursued his graduation degree from Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce. He worked as a salesman in a small IT company named Inika Technologies located in Koregaon Park in Pune. Later, he found that he was interested in acting line, so he shifted to the acting career. Subodh Bhave worked in several Marathi movies, serials, and theatre. He received appreciation from renowned professionals. His popular roles consist of the role of Bal Gangadhar Tilak in the film titled as Lokmanya- Ek Yug Purush. It was a biopic on India’s most popular social reformer.
Subodh had also been appreciated for his role in the film Balgandharva which was made on an artist named Naraya...
7. Anand Abhyankar
There have been a few cases in the entertainment world where promising careers have been cut short by the cruel hands of death. So was the case of the predominantly Marathi actor Anand Abhyankar, when he met with a fatal car accident while returning to Mumbai, along with fellow actor Akshay Pendse. Earlier in life, following the Marathi tradition, he had started off with a promising theatre career, while he was studying in Pune, where he had shifted from his home town Nagpur.
As he joined more and more theatre groups, his name spread far and wide in the Marathi theatre world, his first commercial play being a comedy. Incidentally one of his co stars in this play happened to be Mohan Joshi who also became famous in Hindi films and TV serials. Anand’s very first play went on to run for over 1000 shows, establishing him firmly...