Girish Kulkarni

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), Deool (The Temple) and Gabhricha Paus (The Damned Rain). His latest release is the Hindi film Ugly.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Personal life

Girish Kulkarni was born in the Paranda Taluka of Osmanabad District and he was brought up in Pune. He pursued his Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from PLGPL, Latur. While studying in Latur, he was involved in local stage plays. Post his graduation, he worked for private engineering companies for a while but soon enough, he decided to follow his passion and pursue a career in writing.

Career

Before starting his cinematic career, Girish Kulkarni was working with Radio Mirchi as a Cluster Programming Head.^[4] He enjoys creating stories inspired by his observations, and many of the characters he writes reflect authentic village people. Valu, released in 2008, was a light, enjoyable movie portraying various stereotypical characters found in an Indian village through the simple story of a wild bull which needs to be captured.

Girish Kulkarni presents Valu in Karlovy Vary in 2008

In 2009's Gabhricha Paus, he portrayed the tragic story of an Indian farmer from a small village in Vidarbha, who is suffering because of sparse rain, evil money lenders and the negligence of the Indian government towards farmers. His second release in 2009, Vihir, was an abstract movie which told the story of 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 International Film Festival in 2010 and garnered praise and critical appreciation from all over the world.

His following movie Deool, released in 2011, which depicted how politicians manipulate the beliefs of innocent masses in the name of God. His next writing and acting venture in Marathi cinema, the movie Masala released in 2012 and quickly became a family favourite, unveiling new aspects of his talents. In 2013, he made his acting debut in Bollywood with film-maker Anurag Kashyap's latest thriller Ugly, in which his performance as the inadvertently funny cop brought him the attention and praise of the industry as well as the masses.

Currently, work on his upcoming films is underway. His next is a Marathi movie titled Highway, starring Huma Qureshi and Tisca Chopra, which he has written, acted in, and co-produced. He is also working on a comedy film, with which he will mark his directorial debut, apart from acting in it.^[5]

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^[6]
2013	Pune 52	Amar Aapte
2014	Ugly	Vijay Jadhav
2013	Postcard	Postman
2015	Highway	Shekhar
2015	Jaundya Na Balasaheb	unknown^[7]

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^[8]

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

References

↑ "Girish Kulkarni". Mumbai Cinemas. Retrieved 2012-06-05.
↑ Square on (2012-03-12). "Girish Kulkarni Latest Movies Videos Images Photos Wallpapers Songs Biography Trivia On". Gomolo.com. Retrieved 2012-06-05.
↑ "Ugly IMDB".
↑ "Ugly actor Girish Kulkarni". Marathi Sanmaan. Retrieved 2015-01-21.
↑ Sumedha Deo*. "Afraid of getting typecast: Ugly actor Girish Kulkarni". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 2015-01-21.
↑ Shakti Salgaonkar (20 Apr 2012). "Review: Masala (Marathi)". Mumbai: DNA. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
↑ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/marathi/movies/news/Girish-Kulkarni-debuts-as-director-with-Ajay-Atul-film/articleshow/45951021.cms
↑ Vidya Balan, Girish Kulkarni big winners at National Film Awards

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Girish Kulkarni.

Girish Kulkarni at the Internet Movie Database

National Film Award for Best Actor

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) Rajkummar Rao and Suraj Venjaramoodu (2013) Vijay (2014) Amitabh Bachchan (2015)

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 Bahl and Vijay Maurya (2011) Sujoy Ghosh (2012) P. Sheshadri (2013) Srijit Mukherji (2014) Juhi Chaturvedi and Himanshu Sharma (2015)

Adapted	Gopal Krishan Pai and Girish Kasaravalli (2009) Anant Mahadevan and Sanjay Pawar (2010) Avinash Deshpande Nigdi (2011) Bhavesh Mandalia and Umesh Shukla (2012) Panchakshari (2013) Joshy Mangalath (2014) Vishal Bhardwaj (2015)

Dialogues	Pandiraj (2009) Sanjay Pawar (2010) Girish Kulkarni (2011) Anjali Menon (2012) Sumitra Bhave (2013) Vishal Bhardwaj (2014) Juhi Chaturvedi and Himanshu Sharma (2015)

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