One of the most noted Marathi actors of the era, Vinay Apte worked in the Hindi and Marathi film industries for almost four decades. Beginning his acting career with Marathi plays in 1974, his first play as an actor Mitrachi Goshta was directed by one of the most celebrated Marathi playwright Vijay Tendulkar. Apte later went on to star in movies such as Kalyug (1981), Chandni Baar (2001), Corporate (2006), Dhamaal (2007), Jogwa (2009), Lalbaug Paral (2010), and Chakravyuh (2012). Apte died on 7th December 2013 due to multiple organ failures at the Kokilaben Ambani Hospital, Mumbai. Several of his movies were released posthumously including Madhubala – Ek Ishq Junoon (2014), Gour Hari Dastaan (2015), and Dhondi (2017).
Vinay Apte
Movies
Raajneeti
Belonging to a prominent Uttar Pradesh-family of ruthless politicians, Samar Pratap is about to return to his Irish-American girlfriend, Sarah, in the U.S. and obtain a PhD, but cancels his trip when his father, Chandra, is shot dead. He decides to stay put and avenge this slaying but ends up…
Aarakshan
Following the Mandal Commission report and the Supreme Court of India’s decision to maintain a 27 percent reservation for Dalits and lower/backward castes, right-winged political parties organize protests. The Principal of Shakuntala Thakral Mahavidyalal, a non-government college which is exempt from this mandate, gets in the limelight when it’s Principal,…
Ek Chalis Ki Last Local
Employed in Kurla in a Multinational Call Center where he is instructed to speak with an accent, Nilesh Rastogi misses the last 1:40 AM Kalyan-bound local-train to return home to Vikhroli. Asked to leave the platform by a Hawaldar, he goes looking for an alternate place to hang out until…
Saathiya
Running away from home can’t keep a couple together. A signed paper can’t keep a couple together. Love can. While for most Love Stories, marriage is the “goal”, the fact remains that marriage is just the beginning. Saathiya continues on, from where most love stories end. From the infatuation stage…
Veer
In early twentieth-century British India, the Pindari leader Prithvi Singh narrates his story to a reporter from the London Times – a story of betrayal and deceit at the hands of the British and Madhavgarh’s Raja Gyanendra Singh, which led to the massacre of 4500 Pindaris.
