Girish Kulkarni

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Girish Kulkarni
Girish Kulkarni at Masala Premier
Born	Girish Pandurang Kulkarni Pune, Maharashtra, India
Occupation	Actor, Writer, Producer
Awards	National Film Awards 2011 - Best Actor

Girish Pandurang Kulkarni is a National Award winning Indian film actor, writer, and producer. He is known for Marathi films such as Valu (The Wild Bull), Vihir (The Well) and Deool (The Temple).^[1]^[2]

Personal life

Girish Kulkarni was born in Paranda Tal. of Osmanabad Dist: and brought up in Pune. He did his Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from PLGPL, Latur. While studying in Latur, he was involved in local stage plays. After finishing his diploma he worked for a private Engg. companies for some time but decided to pursue career in writing.

Career

Before starting his acting career, Girish Kulkarni was working with Radio Mirchi as cluster programming head.^{[citation needed]} Many of the characters he writes reflect authentic village people. Valu was a simple, light movie describing various stereotype characters found in an Indian village through a simple story about a Wild Bull which needs to be caught. In Gabhricha Paus, he describes a tragic story of an Indian farmer from a small village in Vidarbha who is suffering because of low rain, evil money lenders and negligence of farmers by the Indian government. Vihir was an abstract movie which tells a story about an adolescent boy who sets out to understand the meaning of life and death after his cousin and close friend dies. Vihir was screened at Berlin Festival and garnered a huge appreciation from all over the world. His latest movie is Deool, which portrays how politicians manipulate the belief of people in the name of God. His new movie "Masala" released on 20 April 2012.

Filmography

Acting credits
Year	Film	Role
2008	Valu	Jeevan
2009	Gabhricha Paus	Kisna
2009	Gandha	Mangesh
2009	Vihir	Bhavasha Mama
2011	Deool	Keshya
2012	Masala	Revan Patil^[3]
2013	Pune 52	Amar Aapte
2013	Ugly	Vijay Jadhav
2013	Postcard	Postman

Writing and production credits
Year	Film	Notes
2008	Valu	Story, screenplay, Dialogues and producer
2009	Vihir	Story, screenplay, Dialogues
2011	Deool	Story, screenplay, Dialogues
2012	Masala	Story, screenplay, Dialogues

Awards

National Film Awards^[4]

2011 Deool - National Film Award for Best Actor
2011 Deool - National Film Award for Best Screenplay (Best Dialogue)

References

↑ Name *. "Girish Kulkarni". Mumbai Cinemas. Retrieved 2012-06-05.
↑ By Square on (2012-03-12). "Girish Kulkarni Latest Movies Videos Images Photos Wallpapers Songs Biography Trivia On". Gomolo.com. Retrieved 2012-06-05.
↑ Shakti Salgaonkar (20 Apr 2012). "Review: Masala (Marathi)". Mumbai: DNA. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
↑ Vidya Balan, Girish Kulkarni big winners at National Film Awards

External links

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Girish Kulkarni at the Internet Movie Database

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1967–1980	Uttam Kumar (1967) Ashok Kumar (1968) Utpal Dutt (1969) Sanjeev Kumar (1970) M. G. Ramachandran (1971) Sanjeev Kumar (1972) P. J. Antony (1973) Sadhu Meher (1974) M. V. Vasudeva Rao (1975) Mithun Chakraborty (1976) Bharath Gopi (1977) Arun Mukherjee (1978) Naseeruddin Shah (1979) Balan K. Nair (1980)

1981–2000	Om Puri (1981) Kamal Haasan (1982) Om Puri (1983) Naseeruddin Shah (1984) Shashi Kapoor (1985) Charuhasan (1986) Kamal Haasan (1987) Premji (1988) Mammootty (1989) Amitabh Bachchan (1990) Mohanlal (1991) Mithun Chakraborty (1992) Mammootty (1993) Nana Patekar (1994) Rajit Kapur (1995) Kamal Haasan (1996) Balachandra Menon and Suresh Gopi (1997) Ajay Devgan and Mammootty (1998) Mohanlal (1999) Anil Kapoor (2000)

2001–present	Murali (2001) Ajay Devgan (2002) Vikram (2003) Saif Ali Khan (2004) Amitabh Bachchan (2005) Soumitra Chatterjee (2006) Prakash Raj (2007) Upendra Limaye (2008) Amitabh Bachchan (2009) Dhanush and Salim Kumar (2010) Girish Kulkarni (2011) Irrfan Khan and Vikram Gokhale (2012)

National Film Award for Best Screenplay

1967–1980

S. L. Puram Sadanandan (1967)
Pandit Anand Kumar (1968)
Puttanna Kanagal (1969)
Satyajit Ray (1970)
Tapan Sinha (1971)
Gulzar (1972)
Mrinal Sen and Ashish Burman (1973)
Satyajit Ray (1974)
No Award (1975)
Vijay Tendulkar (1976)
Satyadev Dubey, Shyam Benegal, Girish Karnad (1977)
T. S. Ranga and T. S. Nagabharana (1978)
Sai Paranjpye (1979)
Mrinal Sen (1980)

1981–2000

2001–present

Neelakanta (2001) Aparna Sen (2002) Goutam Ghose (2003) Manoj Tyagi and Nina Arora (2004) Prakash Jha, Manoj Tyagi and Shridhar Raghavan (2005) Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra (2006) Feroz Abbas Khan (2007) Sachin Kundalkar (2008)

Original	P. F. Mathews and Harikrishna (2009) Vetrimaaran (2010) Nitish Tiwary, Vikas Behl and Vijay Maurya (2011) Sujoy Ghosh (2012)

Adapted	Gopal Krishan Pai and Girish Kasaravalli (2009) Anant Mahadevan and Sanjay Pawar (2010) Avinash Deshpande Nigdi (2011) Bhavesh Mandalia and Umesh Shukla (2012)

Dialogues	Pandiraj (2009) Sanjay Pawar (2010) Girish Kulkarni (2011) Anjali Menon (2012)

Persondata
Name	Kulkarni, Girish
Alternative names
Short description	Actor
Date of birth
Place of birth	Pune, Maharashtra, India
Date of death
Place of death

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