List of Marathi People In The Performing Arts (194 items)report

• Abhinay Deo – Is an Indian film director, his first movie was Game and his second was Delhi Belly (Cinema and theatre)

• Amol Palekar – Bollywood director & actor, received award for best actor of 1979 for film "Gol Maal" (Cinema and theatre)

• Amol Gupte – Bollywood director & actor, received award for best screen play for film "Taare Zameen Par" (Cinema and theatre)

• Anand Patwardhan – An Indian documentary filmmaker, known for his activism through social action documentaries on topics such as corruption, slum dwellers, etc. (Cinema and theatre)

• Ashutosh Gowarikar – director of Lagaan(nominated for Oscars, has bagged 5 filmfare, 7 international awards) (Cinema and theatre)

• Baburao Mistry – Wrote his own screenplays; first Indian filmmaker to adopt the method of "Stenographic", the method Satyajit Ray adopted for Pather Panchali (Cinema and theatre)

• Bhagwan Dada – Film director, producer and actor (Cinema and theatre)

• Bhalji Pendharkar – Director, was associated with Prabhat Film Company, also received Dadasahab Phalke Award (Cinema and theatre)

• Dadasaheb Phalke –;irected the first Indian feature film, the "father of Indian cinema"; directed 95 movies and 26 short films in a span of 19 years (Cinema and theatre)

• Dadasaheb Torne- made first Indian film named Shree Pundlik in the year 1912 (Cinema and theatre)

• Deepak Kadam – Director of various Video Albums, Ad films, TV serials & Marathi Feature Films. His upcoming movie WAAKYA has been chosen from 280 films from 35 country for navi Mumbai international film festival-2014 (Cinema and theatre)

• Dinkar D patil – had an illustrious career as a filmmaker for almost five decades; introduced Marathi Lavani folk dance in his films (Cinema and theatre)

• Gauri Shinde – Bollywood director; made her directional debut through the highly acclaimed English Vinglish (Cinema and theatre)

• Jabbar Patel – director, maker of classics films in Marathi, received Nargis Dutt award for best feature film on national integration (Cinema and theatre)

• Kavita Lad - Marathi television and theatre actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Kunal Deshmukh – Bollywood director (Cinema and theatre)

• Madhur Bhandarkar – Bollywood director, Script Writer, producer, also 3 times recipient of national filmfare award for best director (Cinema and theatre)

• Mahesh Kothare – Bollywood director (Cinema and theatre)

• Mahesh Manjrekar – Bollywood director, actor, screenwriter, producer, has won 2 star awards & 1 national award (Cinema and theatre)

• Master Vinayak – Bollywood director (Cinema and theatre)

• N. Chandra (Chandrakant Narvekar) – Bollywood director (Cinema and theatre)

• Nishikant Kamat – director of movies like Dombivli Fast, Mumbai Meri Jaan and Drishyam (Cinema and theatre)

• Paresh Mokashi – his film Harishchandrachi Factory was the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film official entry to 82nd Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film (Cinema and theatre)

• Acharya Atre – his Marathi film, Shyamchi Aai (श्यामची आई) won the 1954 National Film Award for Best Feature Film, received the First National Film Award (Cinema and theatre)

• Prasad Oak – Marathi actor, film director, film producer, poet, singer, writer, singer (Cinema and theatre)

• Raja Nawathe-Bollywood director, Regarded as one of the finest female actors in the history of Hindi cinema,|190x190px]] (Cinema and theatre)

• Raja Paranjpe – Had a career spanning over 40 years, also was associated with about 80 Marathi film and Hindi film (Cinema and theatre)

• Sachin Pilgaonkar – Actor and director, started acting in films at the age of 4, directed several films & TV Soaps (Cinema and theatre)

• Sachin Kundalkar – Bollywood director, is a Marathi film director and screenplay writer, received the Best Screenplay for his film Gandha in 2009 (Cinema and theatre)

• Sai Paranjpe – Director, scriptwriter & theatre personality, received Padma Bhushan in 2006 (Cinema and theatre)

• Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni – Famous director of acclaimed Marathi films like Deool, Vihir and Valu (Cinema and theatre)

• V Shantaram – Bollywood director, He directed his first film, "Netaji Palkar" in 1927. In 1929, he founded the Prabhat Film Company (Cinema and theatre)

• Vishnupant Damle – Was a set designer, film director of Marathi Cinema, was also one of the co-founders for Prabhat Film Company (Cinema and theatre)

• Vishram Sawant – Bollywood director (Cinema and theatre)

• Aditi Sarangdhar – Marathi actor known as Angry Young Woman (Cinema and theatre)

• Amruta Khanvilkar – Marathi actress and dancer who also appeared in Bollywood films (Cinema and theatre)

• Antara Mali – Bollywood actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Ashwini Bhave – Bollywood actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Bhagyashree Patwardhan – Bollywood actress, known for Maine Pyaar Kiya (1989) (Cinema and theatre)

• Bhargavi Chirmule – Marathi actress; worked in movies like Kass and One room kitchen (Cinema and theatre)

• Durga Khote – actress; marks the pioneering phase for women in Indian cinema; India Today named her among "100 people who shaped India" (Cinema and theatre)

• Durgabai Kamat (1899–1997), first actress of Indian cinema, in Mohini Bhasmasur (1913), second movie of Phalke (Cinema and theatre)

• Gauri Pradhan Tejwani – television actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Jayshree Gadkar – acted in several Marathi films, also acted in Ramanand Sagar's TV Series Ramayana as Kaushalya, mother of Rama (Cinema and theatre)

• Kajal Kiran - Bollywood actress of 70s (Cinema and theatre)

• Kavita Lad - Actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Kimi Katkar – Bollywood Actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Lalita Pawar-Noted actress in Indian cinema (Cinema and theatre)

• Leela Chitnis – First Indian Film Star to endorse popular soap brand "LUX", concession then only granted to top Hollywood heroines (Cinema and theatre)

• Madhuri Dixit – Leading actress in Indian cinema in the 90s, Forbes named her among "Top 5 most powerful Indian Movie Stars" (Cinema and theatre)

• Mamta Kulkarni – Bollywood Actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Manjari Phadnis – Actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Mayuri Kango – Bollywood actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Mrinal Kulkarni – Model & Actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Mugdha Godse – Model & Actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Namrata Shirodkar – Bollywood Actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Nanda – actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Nivedita Joshi – Actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Nutan – Bollywood Actress (Tanuja's elder sister and shobhana samarth's daughter), role model for many Bollywood Heroines, received Padma Shri in 1974 (Cinema and theatre)

• Padmini Kolhapure – Bollywood actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Pallavi Joshi – Bollywood actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Priya Bapat- Leading Marathi Actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Priya Tendulkar – Bollywood Actress, Social Activist, her father was eminent popular writer Vijay Tendulkar (Cinema and theatre)

• Radhika Apte – actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Ranjana Deshmukh – popular Marathi actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Reema Lagoo – acted in various Marathi dramas, Marathi movies, and Bollywood (Cinema and theatre)

• Renuka Shahane – Bollywood actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Sulochana – actress, received the "Dadasaheb Phalke Award" in 1973 (Cinema and theatre)

• Sagarika Ghatge – actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Sandhya – appeared in popular films like Navrang, Do Aankhen Barah Haath and Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje (Cinema and theatre)

• Sarika – actress, worked in more than 50 Hindi films, married to Kamal Hasan (Tamil superstar) (Cinema and theatre)

• Shakuntala Paranjpye – actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Shashikala Jawalkar – Bollywood actress who performed character roles in the 60s and 70s (Cinema and theatre)

• Shilpa Shirodkar – Bollywood actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Shilpa Tulaskar – Television actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Shobhana Samarth – actress and mother of Nutan and Tanuja (Cinema and theatre)

• Shraddha Kapoor – Bollywood actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Smita Patil – Bollywood actress nominated for several Filmfare and national awards, received Padma Shri in 1985 (Cinema and theatre)

• Sonali Bendre – Bollywood actress; acted in Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada films; received star screen best actress award in 2004 (Cinema and theatre)

• Sonali Kulkarni – Bollywood actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Supriya Pilgaonkar – actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Tanuja – Bollywood actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Urmila Matondkar – Bollywood actress, started acting from the age of 9 and has acted in several Hindi, Telugu films (Cinema and theatre)

• Vandana Gupte – stage and television actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Varsha Usgaonkar – Bollywood actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Vidya Malvade - Bollywood actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Aditi Govitrikar – model (Cinema and theatre)

• Anusha Dandekar- MTV VJ and model (Cinema and theatre)

• Madhu Sapre – former supermodel (Cinema and theatre)

• Mugdha Godse – Bollywood actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Pooja Chitgopekar- Miss India Earth 2007 and later Miss Earth Air 2007 (Cinema and theatre)

• Rakhi Sawant – model and actress (Cinema and theatre)

• Ujjwala Raut – international ramp model (Cinema and theatre)

• Ajinkya Dev – Bollywood actor (Cinema and theatre)

• Ashok Saraf – leading Marathi actor (Cinema and theatre)

• Atul Kulkarni – Bollywood actor; theatre artist; acted in several Marathi, Hindi, and Kannada films; nominated for Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Actor for Marathi film Natarang (Cinema and theatre)

• Bhanu Athaiya – costume designer, recipient of Oscar for her work on the movie Gandhi (Cinema and theatre)

• Bharat Jadhav – leading Marathi theatre performer (Cinema and theatre)

• Dada Kondke – revolutionised Marathi comedy (Cinema and theatre)

• David Abraham Cheulkar – Jewish Bollywood character actor of the 60s (Cinema and theatre)

• Dilip Prabhavalkar – leading stage artist. Last seen as Gandhi in Lage Raho Munnabhai (Cinema and theatre)

• Kanan Kaushal (Cinema and theatre)

• Kashinath Ghanekar - veteran stage actor (Cinema and theatre)

• Kuldeep Pawar – actor (Cinema and theatre)

• Laxmikant Berde – leading Marathi actor of 80s and 90s (Cinema and theatre)

• Milind Soman – model and actor (Cinema and theatre)

• Mohan Agashe – leading art film and Bollywood actor (Cinema and theatre)

• Mohan Gokhale (1953–1999) – Mr. Yogi (Cinema and theatre)

• Nana Patekar – Bollywood and leading stage actor (Cinema and theatre)

• Omi Vaidya – Bollywood actor (Cinema and theatre)

• Rajnikant – Tamil/South Indian cinema superstar and second highest paid Asian actor as of 2017 (Cinema and theatre)

• Ramesh Bhatkar – actor (Cinema and theatre)

• Rakesh Bapat – Bollywood actor, also holds the title of Grasim Mr. India (Cinema and theatre)

• Ritesh Deshmukh – Bollywood actor (Cinema and theatre)

• Sachin Pilgaonkar - film and television actor, director, singer and producer. Winner of four Filmfare Awards (Cinema and theatre)

• Sachin Khedekar – Bollywood actor movies Subhas Chandra Bose, Astitva (Cinema and theatre)

• Sadashiv Amrapurkar – Bollywood and Marathi film actor (Cinema and theatre)

• Sanjay Narvekar- Marathi and Bollywood actor (Cinema and theatre)

• Sayaji Shinde – Marathi, Bollywood, Tollywood actor & film producer (Cinema and theatre)

• Shivaji Satam – actor (Cinema and theatre)

• Shreyas Talpade – Bollywood actor (Cinema and theatre)

• Shriram Lagoo - Marathi and Bollywood actor (Cinema and theatre)

• Sudhir Joshi – late Marathi actor, acted in several Marathi films (Cinema and theatre)

• Swanand Kirkire – Bollywood lyricist (Cinema and theatre)

• Vijayendra Ghatge – Bollywood actor (Cinema and theatre)

• Viju Khote – Bollywood actor (Cinema and theatre)

• Vikram Gokhale – actor (Cinema and theatre)

• Ajay Pohankar – classical vocalist (Indian classical musicians)

• Ajay−Atul – music composer brothers (Natrang) (Indian classical musicians)

• Arati Ankalikar-Tikekar – classical singer (Indian classical musicians)

• Arun Paudwal – music director of Marathi cinema (Indian classical musicians)

• Ashwini Bhide – classical Vocalist (Indian classical musicians)

• Bal Gandharva (1888–1967) singer and stage actor (Indian classical musicians)

• Bhimsen Joshi (1922–2011) - Indian vocalist in the Hindustani classical tradition, recipient of the Bharat Ratna (Indian classical musicians)

• C. R. Vyas (1924–2002)- Indian vocalist in the Hindustani classical tradition, recipient of the Padma Bhushan (Indian classical musicians)

• C. Ramchandra(or Ramchandra Chitalkar) (1918–1977) – Hindi film music director (Indian classical musicians)

• Datta Naik – Hindi film music director (Indian classical musicians)

• Hirabai Barodekar (1905–1989) – Indian Hindustāni classical music singer, pioneer of concerts by women artists in India, from the Kirana Gharana (Indian classical musicians)

• Hridaynath Mangeshkar – music director (Indian classical musicians)

• Jyotsna Bhole – singer, actor (Indian classical musicians)

• Kesarbai Kerkar – singer, born at Keri in Goa (Indian classical musicians)

• Kishori Amonkar (born 1931) – classical singer (Indian classical musicians)

• Laxmikant Kudalkar (1937–1998) – of the duo Laxmikant-Pyarelal (Indian classical musicians)

• Mogubai Kurdikar – singer from Jaipur Gharana born at Kurdi Goa. (Indian classical musicians)

• Prabha Atre (born 1932) - Indian classical vocalist; awarded Padmabhushan, Sangeet Natak Akademi award (Indian classical musicians)

• Ram Kadam (1916–1997) – Marathi music composer (Pinjra 1972, Sangte Aika 1959) (Indian classical musicians)

• Sameep Kulkarni - Sitarist (Indian classical musicians)

• Sanjeev Abhyankar – classical singer (Indian classical musicians)

• Satish Vyas – Santoor player, recipient of the Padma Shri (Indian classical musicians)

• Shrikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar (1899–1974) – Indian classical musicologist, Vocalist, composer, Padmabhushan 1957 (Indian classical musicians)

• Shrinivas Khale - music director (Indian classical musicians)

• Shruti Sadolikar-Katkar (Indian classical musicians)

• Sudhir Phadke (1919–2002) – Marathi music composer, composed music for Geet Ramayan (Indian classical musicians)

• Sureshbabu Mane – vocalist of Kirana gharana (Indian classical musicians)

• Uday Bhawalkar – Dhrupad vocalist (Indian classical musicians)

• Ulhas Kashalkar – Hindustani Classical Vocalist (Indian classical musicians)

• V. G. Jog – violinist (Indian classical musicians)

• Vasant Desai – music director of Hindi/Marathi films (Indian classical musicians)

• Vasantrao Deshpande – classical singer (Indian classical musicians)

• Veena Sahasrabuddhe – classical vocalist (Indian classical musicians)

• Vidyadhar Oke - harmonium player, musicologist, musical instrument inventor (Indian classical musicians)

• Vishnu Digambar Paluskar – singer of gwalior gharana, reformer of Indian Classical Music (Indian classical musicians)

• Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande (10 August 1860 – 19 September 1936) – Indian classical musicologist and reformer (Indian classical musicians)

• Avdhoot Gupte – music composer, singer
  
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• Gaurav Dagaonkar – music composer, also does pock, Pop, as music director his first release Lanka
  
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• Karsh Kale – New Age musician, fusion, electronica from US
  
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• Milind Date – flautist, composer, Known for his collaborations with many international artists and flamboyant performances
  
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• Salil Kulkarni – music composer, singer (Aggobai Dhaggobai)
  
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• Sandip Khare – poet, songwriter and singer (Ayushyawar bolu kahi, Diwas Ase Ki)
  
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• Atul Kasbekar – first Indian to win the International Food and Beverage Creative Excellence Awards (FAB Awards) 2005, held at London (Applied arts - fashion, photography, art direction, advertisement)

• Bhanu Athaiya – first Indian to win the Academy Award for Costume Design for the film Gandhi (1982) (Applied arts - fashion, photography, art direction, advertisement)

• Gautam Rajadhyaksha – one of India's leading fashion photographers (Applied arts - fashion, photography, art direction, advertisement)

• Gopi Kukde – advertising veteran, prominently recognised for the advertising character of the Onida Devil (Applied arts - fashion, photography, art direction, advertisement)

• M.V. Dhurandhar – painter and postcard artist (Applied arts - fashion, photography, art direction, advertisement)

• Nitin Chandrakant Desai – art director, first Indian to receive the Genie Award for his film Such a Long Journey (Applied arts - fashion, photography, art direction, advertisement)

• Pralhad Anant Dhond – later a teacher; in 1958 became the Dean of Sir. J. J. School of Art (Applied arts - fashion, photography, art direction, advertisement)

• Ram V. Sutar – sculptor; his first work of note was the 45 feet Chambal monument at the Gandhi Sagar Dam, in Madhya Pradesh; received Padmashri in 1999 (Applied arts - fashion, photography, art direction, advertisement)

• Sambhaji Kadam – painter; also studied musicology, especially the "Shruti" intervals or the micro-tonic intervals in Indian music (Applied arts - fashion, photography, art direction, advertisement)

• V. S. Gaitonde – painter, received First prize at the Young Asian Artists Exhibition, Rockefeller Fellowship and Padma Shri in 1971 (Applied arts - fashion, photography, art direction, advertisement)

• Anant Sadashiv Altekar – in 1947, elected the First Chairman of the Numismatic Society of India (Historians)

• Annabhau Sathe –a founder member of the Lal Bawta Kalapathak of the Communist Party in Maharashtra; people conferred the epithet Lok Shahir (Historians)

• Babasaheb Purandare – historian who researched Shivajij (Historians)

• Devadatta Ramakrishna Bhandarkar - archaeologist and epigraphist; Carmichael Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture in the University of Calcutta (Historians)

• Dattatraya Ganesh Godse – historian, playwright, art critic; received a Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1988 (Historians)

• Datto Vaman Potdar – due to vast knowledge he was called as Dr. Johnson of Maharashtra or a living encyclopaedia; the Government of India honoured Potdar with the title Mahamahopadhyaya (महामहोपाध्याय) in 1946, and Padma bhushan in 1967 (Historians)

• Govind Sakharam Sardesai – historian and writer (Historians)

• Ninad Bedekar – historian and writer (Historians)

• Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar – His doctoral thesis was later published as The History of Caste in India (volume 1), which determines the date of Manusmriti (Historians)

• Tryambak Shankar Shejwalkar, was the first historian to study the Third Battle of Panipat (Historians)

• Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi – For his vital contribution to the Indian history he was honoured with the title Mahamahopadhyaya (महामहोपाध्याय) by the British Indian Government in 1941. He was also awarded Padmabhushan in 1975 by the President of India. (Historians)

• Vishnushastri Krushnashastri Chiplunkar – His articles introduced reader to "Western" tradition of literacy criticism (Historians)

• Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade – He was considered to be the first in real sense to undertake an immense research of Maratha history (Historians)

• Vishwas Patil – "Panipatkar", recipient of Bhartiya Parishad Award, Gadkari Award & several other prestigious awards (Historians)

• Vithal Krishnaji Khedkar – Was one of the founders of Prarthana Samaj in Bombay & original author of a book later published The Divine Heritage of the Yadavas (Historians)

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