The 20th Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards (META) and Festival 2025 has announced that the lifetime achievement award for META 2025, which marks META’s 20th year, will be conferred on Shanta ...

There must be very few people in Pune today who still remember Manjula, the schoolteacher. Although it has not been long since she died, she had not been in the public eye for almost a generation ...

First there was the Prabhat film Sant Tukaram. I saw it as a child. For years afterwards Vishnupant Pagnis who played Tukaram was the saint incarnate for me. My favourite song was “Aadhi beej ekale”.

Actress Renuka Shahane made her debut as a director in Marathi cinema with the film, 'Rita' based on her mother Shanta Gokhale's critically acclaimed Marathi novel 'Rita Welinkar'. The actress also ...

Shanta Gokhale is a novelist, playwright, translator, cultural critic, columnist and theatre historian. She has written two novels in Marathi, Rita Welinkar and Tya Varshi. Both won the Maharashtra ...