23rd Zee Chitra Gaurav Puraskar

23rd Zee Chitra Gaurav Puraskar
Presented on	13 March 2023
Hosted by	Shreyas Talpade, Nilesh Sable
Highlights
Best Film	Me Vasantrao
Most awards	Me Vasantrao (7)
Most nominations	Me Vasantrao (17)
Television coverage
Network	Zee Marathi
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The 23rd Zee Chitra Gaurav Puraskar, presented by the Zee Marathi television network, honored the best Indian Marathi-language films of 2022. ^[1] It was telecast on 26 March 2023. ^[2] Me Vasantrao led the ceremony with 17 nominations, followed by Godavari with 15 and Ved with 12. ^[3]

Me Vasantrao won 7 awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress, making it the most-awarded film of the ceremony. ^[4] Prasad Oak's Chandramukhi dominated the music categories, winning Best Music Director, Best Playback Singer – Female and Best Chereography. Har Har Mahadev won in both of its nominated categories. ^[5] Surprisingly, Riteish Deshmukh's Ved , despite securing 12 nominations, won only two awards in non-nominated categories—Popular Film and Popular Actress. ^[6] Rahul Deshpande received three nominations for Me Vasantrao and one for Godavari, winning for the latter.

Winners and nominees

Best Film	Best Director
Me Vasantrao Godavari Goshta Eka Paithanichi Y Ved	Nipun Dharmadhikari – Me Vasantrao Dr. Ajit Wadikar – Y Pratap Phad – Ananya Riteish Deshmukh – Ved Shantanu Rode – Goshta Eka Paithanichi Nikhil Mahajan – Godavari
Best Actor	Best Actress
Prasad Oak – Dharmaveer as Anand Dighe Jitendra Joshi – Godavari as Nishikant Deshmukh Sumeet Raghavan – Ekda Kaay Zala as Kiran Riteish Deshmukh – Ved as Satya Jadhav Rahul Deshpande – Me Vasantrao as Vasantrao Deshpande	Hruta Durgule – Ananya as Ananya Amruta Khanvilkar – Chandramukhi as Chandramukhi Umajirao Junnarkar (Chandra) Sayali Sanjeev – Goshta Eka Paithanichi as Indrayani Mukta Barve – Y as Dr. Aarti Deshmukh Sonalee Kulkarni – Tamasha Live as Shefali Genelia D'Souza – Ved as Shravani Jadhav
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Pushkaraj Chirputkar – Me Vasantrao as Purushottam Laxman Deshpande Kshitish Date – Dharmaveer as Eknath Shinde Gashmeer Mahajani – Sarsenapati Hambirrao as Shivaji I / Sambhaji I Sanjay Mone – Godavari as Nishikant's father Amey Wagh – Ananya as Jay Dixit	Gauri Nalawade– Godavari as Gautami Anita Date-Kelkar – Me Vasantrao as Vasantrao's mother Urmilla Kothare – Ekda Kaay Zala as Shruti Shruti Marathe – Sarsenapati Hambirrao as Maharani Soyarabai Jiya Shankar – Ved as Nisha Katkar
Best Music Director	Best Lyirist
Ajay-Atul – Chandramukhi Ajay-Atul – Ved Saleel Kulkarni – Ekda Kaay Zala Rahul Deshpande – Me Vasantrao Avadhoot Gupte – Pandu	Jitendra Joshi – Godavari Sandeep Khare, Dr. Salil Kulkarni – Ekda Kaay Zala Ajay-Atul – Ved Guru Thakur – Chandramukhi
Best Playback Singer – Male	Best Playback Singer – Female
Rahul Deshpande – "Khal Khal Goda" – Godavari Rahul Deshpande – "Kaivalya Gaan" – Me Vasantrao Manish Rajgire – "Gurupournima" – Dharmaveer Shankar Mahadevan – "Re Kshana"– Ekda Kaay Zala Avadhoot Gupte – "Bhurum Bhurum" – Pandu	Shreya Ghoshal – "Chandra" – Chandramukhi Aarya Ambekar – "Bai Ga" –Chandramukhi Shreya Ghoshal – "Sukh Kalale" – Ved Mugdha Karhade – "Alahida Parawa" – Ananya Priyanka Barve – "Bindiya Le Gayi" – Me Vasantrao
Best On-Screen Pair	Best Child Artist
Sayali Sanjeev, Suvrat Joshi – Gosht Eka Paithanichi	Arjun Purnapatre – Ekda Kaay Zala Khushi Hazare – Ved Saniya Bhandare – Godavari Aarav Shetye – Goshta Eka Paithanichi Aryan Menghaji – Baalbhaarti

Technical Awards

Best Story	Best Screenplay
Shantanu Rode – Goshta Eka Paithanichi Prajakt Deshmukh, Nikhil Mahajan – Godavari Pratap Phad – Ananya Salil Kulkarni – Ekda Kaay Zala	Nipun Dharmadhikari – Me Vasantrao Prajakt Deshmukh, Nikhil Mahajan – Godavari Dr. Ajit Suryakant Wadikar, Swapnil Sojwal – Y Shantanu Rode – Goshta Eka Paithanichi
Best Dialogue	Best Editing
Prajakta Deshmukh – Godavari Shantanu Rode – Goshta Eka Paithanichi Upendra Shidhaye, Nipun Dharmadhikari – Me Vasantrao	Jayant Jathar – Y Abhijit Deshpande – Ananya Faizal Mahadik, Imran Mahadik – Me Vasantrao Manish Shirke – Goshta Eka Paithanichi Mayur Hardas – Sarsenapati Hambirrao
Best Choreography	Best Cinematography
Deepali Vichare – "Chandra" – Chandramukhi Ashish Patil – "Bai Ga" – Chandramukhi Ranju Varghese – Zombivli Ranju Varghese – Ved Phulwa Khamkar – Ananya Umesh Jadhav – Sarsenapati Hambirrao	Shamin Kulkarni – Godavari Mahesh Limaye – Sarsenapati Hambirrao Bhushankumar Jain – Ved Abhimanyu Dange – Me Vasantrao Sanjay Memane – Jhimma
Best Art Director	Best Sound Design
Satish Chipkar, Rakesh Kadam, Sachin Patil – Har Har Mahadev Amit Waghchaure – Godavari Ashok Lokre, A. Rucha – Me Vasantrao Madan Mane – Sarsenapati Hambirrao Durgesh Mahapatra, Nilesh Wagh – Ved	Anmol Bhave – Me Vasantrao Belon Fonseca – Godavari Lochan Kanvinde – Zombivli
Best Background Score	Best Costume Design
AV Prafullachandra – Godavari AV Prafullachandra – Zombivli Sarang Kulkarni, Saurabh Bhalerao – Me Vasantrao	Nachiket Barve – Har Har Mahadev Sachin Lowlekar – Me Vasantrao Mansi Attarde – Sarsenapati Hambirrao
Best Makeup Artist	Best VFX
Saurabh Kapde– Me Vasantrao Vidyadhar Bhatte – Dharmaveer Yasmin Rogers – Zombivli	Rayan – Zombivli

Special awards

Lifetime Achievement Award
Ashok Saraf [7]
Popular Film
Ved
Popular Actress
Genelia D'Souza – Ved [8]
Most Natural Performance of the Year
Sonalee Kulkarni
Majha Dildari Award
Nagraj Manjule
Marathi Paul Padte Pudhe
Sai Tamhankar

Superlatives

Multiple nominations

Nominations	Film
17	Me Vasantrao
15	Godavari
12	Ved
8	Goshta Eka Paithanichi
7	Ananya
	Chandramukhi
	Sarsenapati Hambirrao
	Ekda Kaay Zala
5	Y
4	Dharmaveer
	Zombivli
2	Har Har Mahadev
	Pandu

Multiple wins

Awards	Film
7	Me Vasantrao
6	Godavari
5	Chandramukhi
3	Ved
2	Goshta Eka Paithanichi
	Har Har Mahadev

See also

• Zee Chitra Gaurav Puraskar
• List of Marathi films of 2022

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