Alok Rajwade

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Alok Rajwade
Born (1989-02-07) 7 February 1989 (age 35)
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Alma mater Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce
Occupations
  • Actor
  • writer
  • director
Spouse
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(m. 2016)​

Alok Rajwade (born 7 February 1989)[ citation needed ] is an Indian actor, director, singer and painter. He has appeared in Marathi and Hindi films and experimental plays. [1]

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Early life

Rajwade was born and raised in Pune, where he attended Aksharnandan school. He went on to join Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce for a Bachelor of Commerce degree. [2] He was part of various theatre troupes like Aasakta Kalamanch and Samanvay. [3] [4] He was a founding member of the theatre troupe Natak Company, in 2008. [5] He directed and acted in various plays for Natak Company. [6] [7]

Career

Rajwade's first major play was in Abhraham Lincolnche Patra (a Marathi Adaptation of Abraham Lincoln's Letter) by an organisation named Jagar. [3] In 2008, he starred in the Bhojpuri film, Udedh Bun . [8] In 2009, he was part of the critically acclaimed movie Vihir . [9] [10] In 2010, he wrote a play titled Geli Ekvis Varsha (which was directed by him as well) which was performed at Italy's Universo Teatro. [4] In 2012, Rajwade was seen in Ha Bharat Maza. [11] He was greatly appreciated for his roles in Rajwade and & Sons (2014) and Rama Madhav (2014). [12] In the same year, he was also seen in the Hindi movie Dekh Tamasha Dekh , portraying the role of Prashant. [13]

In 2017, he was featured on Forbes India's 30 under 30 list. [4] Alok Rajwade also won the Best Actor Award at the BRICS Film Festival-2017 held in China that year for his movie Kaasav. [14] In 2018, he made his directorial debut in Marathi movies through Ashleel Udyog Mitramandal, written by Dharmakirti Sumant. [12] [15] In the same year, he was also part of the movie Dear Molly which was selected for the Academy Awards. [16] He directed the play, A Doubtful Gaze at Uber at Midnight, which was staged at Serendipity Arts Festival 2018, in Goa. [17] [18]

He also features in Bharatiya Digital Party short video series Aai Ani Me, in which he plays Aniruddha aka Ani along with Renuka Daftardar(Aai) and Mrinmayee Godbole(Jui).

In 2019, he was a co-host of the series titled Safe Journeys. [19] [20] Rajwade was also awarded the Balasaheb Sarpotdar Award by his alma mater, Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce. [21]

Filmography

All films are in Marathi, unless mentioned.

Films

YearTitleRoleNotes
2008 Udedh Bun Ashu Bhojpuri Short Film [8] [2]
2009 Bokya Satbande Vijayendra SatbandeFilm debut
Vihir Nachiket [9] [10]
2012 Chintoo Satish Dada
Ha Bharat Maza [11]
2013Kaatal Aakash
2014 Rama Madhav Madhavrao Peshwe [12]
Dekh Tamasha Dekh Prashant Hindi film [13]
Rajwade and Sons Anay Rajwade [12]
2016 Family Katta Siddharth [22]
2017 Kaasav Manav [12]
PimpalYoung Arvind
2018Ashleel Udyog MitramandalDirectorial Debut [15]
Dear MollyFatherHindi/English film [16]
2022 Me Vasantrao Vasantrao's Mama
2023 Teen Adkun Sitaram Kautilya

Plays

YearTitleRoleLanguageRefs
2007Jhoom Barabar JhoomActor Hindi
2008Bed ke Neeche Rehne WaliActorHindi
2009DalanActorMarathi [6]
2010Institute of PavtalogyDirectorMarathi [7]
Tichee Satra PrakarnaDirectorMarathi
Geli Ekvees VarshaDirector/WriterMarathi [4]
Don ShoorDirectorMarathi [23]
2011Dil-e-NaadanDirector Urdu
2012Natak NakoDirectorMarathi
2013Shivcharitra ani EkDirectorMarathi
Mi GhalibDirectorMarathi
Aashadatil Ek DivasActorMarathi
2014Binkamache SanwadDirectorMarathi
2016Sindhu Sudhakar Rum Aani IttarDirectorMarathi
2018A Doubtful Gaze at Uber at MidnightDirector [24] [18]
2022Prasthan urph exitDirectorMarathi

Web-Series

YearTitleRoleLanguage
2018 Aai Ani Mi AniMarathi
2021 Shantit Kranti DinarMarathi
Hing Pustak TalwaarPandeyMarathi
2022 9 to 5 AvinashMarathi
2023 Shantit Kranti 2 DinarMarathi

Personal life

He dated Parna Pethe before tying the knot on 29 February 2016. They had a court marriage at Mangal Karyalay, Pune. [25] [26]

Alok Rajwade at IMDB

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