Satish Rajwade
Born (1973-01-09) 9 January 1973
NationalityIndian
Occupation(s)director, writer, actor
SpousePallavi Rajwade
ChildrenHruditya 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.

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

YearTitleCapacityMedium
1998Hazaar Chaurasi Ki MaaActorHindi film
1999Vaastav: The RealityActorHindi film
2000Mrugjal... Ek Naslela AstitvaDirector
Writer
Lyricist
Editor
Marathi film
2009Ek Daav Dhobi PachhadDirectorMarathi film
2009Gaiir[8]DirectorMarathi film
2009AsambhavDirectorMarathi TV series
2010Mumbai-Pune-MumbaiDirectorMarathi film
2010Agnihotra[9]DirectorMarathi TV series
2011Guntata Hriday He[10]DirectorMarathi TV series
2012Eka Lagnachi Dusri Goshta[11]DirectorMarathi TV series
2012Badam Rani Gulam Chor[4][12]DirectorMarathi film
2013Premachi GoshtaDirectorMarathi film
2013PopatDirectorMarathi film
2014Sanngto Aika[13] DirectorMarathi film
2014Mumbai Delhi Mumbai Writer
Director
Hindi film
2015Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai 2Writer
Director
Marathi film
2017Ti Saddhya Kay KarteWriter
Director
Marathi film
2017RudramActorMarathi TV series
2018Aapla ManusDirectorMarathi Film
2018Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai 3Writer
Director[14]
Marathi film
2018A Perfect MurderActorMarathi 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. 1 2 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.
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