Satish Rajwade

Satish Rajwade
Born	(1973-01-09) 9 January 1973 (age 51)
Nationality	Indian
Occupation(s)	director, writer, actor
Spouse	Pallavi Rajwade
Children	Hruditya Rajwade, Yohana Rajwade

Satish Rajwade (born 9 January 1973) is an Indian Marathi film 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 Govind Nihalani.

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 Mahesh Manjrekar 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 Reema Lagoo. Blaze Music Company liked their work and offered him to direct a music video Na Jaane Kyun starring model Sameer Dharmadhikari which became an instant hit on the music charts.^{[ citation needed ]}

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. ^[1] 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 Agnihotra on Star Pravah and Guntata Hriday He & Eka Lagnachi Dusri Goshta on Zee Marathi. He has also worked on many projects with actress Mukta Barve. ^{[2] [3]}

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 Upendra Limaye, Mukta Barve, Pushkar Shotri and Anand Ingale in lead roles. ^{[4] [5] [6]} His last release was Preamachi Goshta . He has also acted in movie Bhay and Time Barvait . ^[7]

Filmography

Year	Title	Capacity	Medium
1998	Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa	Actor	Hindi film
1999	Vaastav: The Reality	Actor	Hindi film
2000	Mrugjal... Ek Naslela Astitva	Director Writer Lyricist Editor	Marathi film
2009	Ek Daav Dhobi Pachhad	Director	Marathi film
2009	Gaiir [8]	Director	Marathi film
2009	Asambhav	Director	Marathi TV series
2010	Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai	Director	Marathi film
2010	Agnihotra [9]	Director	Marathi TV series
2011	Guntata Hriday He [10]	Director	Marathi TV series
2012	Eka Lagnachi Dusri Goshta [11]	Director	Marathi TV series
2012	Badam Rani Gulam Chor [4] [12]	Director	Marathi film
2013	Premachi Goshta	Director	Marathi film
2013	Popat	Director	Marathi film
2014	Sanngto Aika [13]	Director	Marathi film
2014	Mumbai Delhi Mumbai	Writer Director	Hindi film
2015	Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai 2	Writer Director	Marathi film
2017	Ti Saddhya Kay Karte	Writer Director	Marathi film
2017	Rudram	Actor	Marathi TV series
2018	Aapla Manus	Director	Marathi Film
2018	Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai 3	Writer Director [14]	Marathi film
2018	A Perfect Murder	Actor	Marathi Drama
2019	Jeevalaga	Director	Marathi TV Series
2020	Samantar	Director	Web Series
2022	Autograph – Ek Japun Thevavi Ashi Lovestory	Director	Marathi Film

References

1. Kedar (14 July 2012). "Mrugjal". SRFC. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
2. Gayatri Deshmukh (14 July 2012). "The L factor in M-town". The Times of India . Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
3. Gayatri Deshmukh (27 May 2012). "Marathi film industry forming camps?". The Times of India . Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
4. Gayatri Deshmukh (30 June 2012). "M-Town gets bigger and better". The Times of India . Archived from the original on 12 January 2014. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
5. Gayatri Kolwankar (1 July 2012). "'Badam Rani Gulam Chor', my biggest challenge, says Satish". The Times of India . Archived from the original on 12 January 2014. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
6. Gayatri Deshmukh (29 June 2012). "Upendra Limaye and Mukta Barve are back". The Times of India . Archived from the original on 12 January 2014. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
7. "Satish Rajwade: Movies, Photos, Videos, News & Biography | eTimes". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
8. Prasanna D Zore (6 November 2009). "Stranger than fiction". Rediff.com . Mumbai. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
9. "'अग्निहोत्र'चा दी एण्ड". Maharashtra Times. 2 April 2010. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
10. "'गुंतता हृदय हे'चा गुंता लवकरच सुटणार!" (in Marathi). Mumbai: Zee News. 14 December 2011. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
11. "'स्वप्निल-मुक्ता' पुन्हा एकत्र !" (in Marathi). Mumbai: Zee News. 3 January 2012. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
12. "'बदामी राणी...'च्या कलाकारांचा रसिकांशी आज थेट संवाद". Sakal (in Marathi). Pune. 21 July 2012. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
13. "REVEALED: Sachin Pilgaonkar's look in Sangto Aika". Times of India. 18 July 2014. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
14. "IMDB". IMDb .

External links

• Satish Rajwade at IMDb