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Chandrakant Kulkarni is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Indian born on 1963
Chandrakant Kulkarni (Marathi: चंद्रकांत कुलकर्णी) is a Marathi theatre and film director, script writer and actor. He is known for his works of directing the plays Wada Chirebandi, Dhyanimani, Gandhi Virudh Gandhi and most recently the remake of Hamidabaichi Kothi. He has also directed the acclaimed films Bindhaast (1999) and Tukaram (2012).
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The Village Had No Walls (1995)
, 2h4Directed by Amol Palekar
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Chandrakant Kulkarni, Upendra Limaye, Nagesh Bhosale
Roles a schoolteacher
Rating79%
The story begins with the young schoolteacher walking alone towards the village called Bangarwadi, across a deserted landscape. When the teacher reaches Bangarwadi, he finds that the school is not working and people are reluctant to send their children to school. The schoolteacher, with a support of Karbhari (village head) successfully convince the local people to send their children to school. Over the next months, he successfully runs the school. Teacher tries to help the illiterate and needy people of the village with all possible means, which sometimes land him into troubles. After successful run at school, he convinces the villager to set up a gymnasium through community participation. He invites the king of the state, Pant Pratinidhi for its inauguration. A sudden death of village head leaves village and schoolteacher shocked, this is followed by a prolong drought. The schoolteacher tries his best to get help from government with frequent letters describing the graveness of situation, but gets no response. Drought forces people of Bangarwadi to abandon the village, leaving the schoolteacher alone with no students.
Director
Aajcha Divas Majha (2013)
Directed by Chandrakant Kulkarni
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Sachin Khedekar, Ashwini Bhave, Mahesh Manjrekar, Pushkar Shotri
Rating72%
The movie is an entertaining and a cinematic journey of a morally-stricken Chief Minister who works efficiently and actively to help a beleaguered elderly singer who is yet to receive the government allotted flat applied for eight long years ago!
Dusari Goshta (2013)
Directed by Chandrakant Kulkarni
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Political films
Actors Vikram Gokhale, Prateeksha Lonkar, Renuka Shahane, Neha Pendse, Siddharth Chandekar
Rating62%
A young boy from the lower caste resorts to petty thefts to make both ends meet after he lost his father at the early age. Once the boy realizes the importance of an education, he begins to improve his life and never looks back. Through diligence and dedication, he climbs the social and political ladder to success.
Tukaram (2012)
Directed by Chandrakant Kulkarni
Genres Biography
Actors Jitendra Joshi, Prateeksha Lonkar, Radhika Apte, Vrishasen Dabholkar, Yatin Karyekar, Smita Tambe
Rating79%
"Tukaram" was born in 1608 in Dehu, a village near Pune to a family who were devoted followers of the deity Vitthal or Vithoba (a form of Lord Vishnu, the Preserver in the Hindu Trinity). The family belonged to the Kunbi caste, they were moneylenders and traders by profession.
Kadachit (2008)
Directed by Chandrakant Kulkarni
Actors Ashwini Bhave, Sachin Khedekar, Sadashiv Amarapurkar, Tushar Dalvi, Sulekha Talwalkar, Nilu Phule
Rating75%
A distinguished neurosurgeon, Dr. Gayatri Pradhan, is happily settled in Pune along with her husband Dr. Shekhar Pradhan, an anesthetist, and their only daughter Piyu. A blissful and contented woman, Dr. Gayatri has managed to effectively fit into the roles of a flourishing medical professional, an ideal wife and a caring mother with unconditional love and support of her family. However, the harmonious tranquility in their lives is abruptly blemished with the arrival of an unwanted stranger.
Meerabai Not Out (2008)
Directed by Chandrakant Kulkarni
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Sports films, Cricket films
Actors Mandira Bedi, Mahesh Manjrekar, Anupam Kher, Eijaz Khan, Prateeksha Lonkar
Rating42%
Meera Achrekar lives a middle-classed lifestyle in a Shivaji Park Chawl, along with her widowed mother; brother Manoj, his wife, Neelima, and their son, Mayank. After the passing of their father, Anant, Manoj, who was just 18 at that time, took over the financial reins of this family, while she, herself, got employed as a Maths Teacher with Vishwa-Prem Vidyalaya, and heads the 'Meera XI' cricket team in the colony. Her mother and Manoj are on the look-out for a suitable groom, but her obsession with cricket along with the 'bahenji' bespectacled looks turn to her disadvantage. Things start to look up after she dramatically meets with heart specialist Dr. Arjun Awasthi, who lives in a mansion with his widower dentist father. The two families meet, and decide to get the couple married. On the day of the formal engagement, however, things spiral out of control when Meera does not show up.
Kay Dyache Bola (2005)
Directed by Chandrakant Kulkarni
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Makarand Madhukar Anaspure, Sachin Khedekar, Mohan Agashe, Nirmiti Sawant, Umesh Kamat, Pushkar Shotri
Rating72%
Harshvardhan Ghodke (Akshay Pendse) and Abhijit Vaidya (Umesh Kamat), are engineering students, who lie to their parents and land up in Mumbai to have fun for a couple of days. Unfortunately, they get caught up in such a mess with the law that they can't find a way out. They are framed for a murder they didn’t commit.
Union (2002)
Directed by Chandrakant Kulkarni
Genres Drama
Actors Prateeksha Lonkar, Atul Kulkarni, Shreyas Talpade, Tushar Dalvi, Mohan Joshi, Umesh Kamat
Rating64%
Sudha is happy with Satish her second husband and she has young daughter, Manu from this marriage. Sudha's son from the first marriage, 'Ananda' is staying with his now newlywed father in Nagpur. He is 12 years old and lives with his grandmother, elder uncle and aunt. He has a blurred memory of his real mother while Sudha also shares same sorrow as she had to stay away from her own son for eight years.
Bindhaast (1999)
, 2h35Directed by Chandrakant Kulkarni
Actors Reema Lagoo, Ram Kapoor, Nirmiti Sawant, Gautami Gadgil Kapoor, Mona Ambegaonkar, Prateeksha Lonkar
Rating75%
Mayuri (Gautami Kapoor) and Vaijayanta aka Vaiju (Sharvari Jamenis) are two fast friends studying in the same girls college. When a girl stab by her boyfriend after being harassed and blackmailed by a boy named Rahul. ACP Nisha Velankar (Mona Ambegaonkar) arrests him and throws him in jail, where he later commits suicide. Nisha is an ex-alumni of the college and later gets invited as chief guest of the college's silver jubilee function. Mayuri and Vaiju decide to carve their own destinies after hearing a soul stirring speech from Nisha, some days before the function.
Scriptwriter
Raakilipattu (2007)
Directed by Priyadarshan
Themes Feminist films, Political films, Buddy films
Actors Jyothika, Tabu, Sharbani Mukherji, Lakshmi Narayan, K. P. A. C. Lalitha, Major Ravi
Josephine (Jyothika), her best friend Radhika (Sharbani Mukherjee) and their friends are pranksters in a ladies' college. Like other college girls, they sing songs, break rules and wreak havoc. They also have a grudge against Gita, another girl from the college.
Kay Dyache Bola (2005)
Directed by Chandrakant Kulkarni
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Makarand Madhukar Anaspure, Sachin Khedekar, Mohan Agashe, Nirmiti Sawant, Umesh Kamat, Pushkar Shotri
Roles Histoire
Rating72%
Harshvardhan Ghodke (Akshay Pendse) and Abhijit Vaidya (Umesh Kamat), are engineering students, who lie to their parents and land up in Mumbai to have fun for a couple of days. Unfortunately, they get caught up in such a mess with the law that they can't find a way out. They are framed for a murder they didn’t commit.
Snegithiye (2000)
, 2h34Directed by Priyadarshan
Genres Thriller
Themes Feminist films, Political films, Buddy films
Actors Jyothika, Sharbani Mukherji, Tabu, Manasi Scott, Major Ravi, Shweta Menon
Roles Original Story
Rating66%
Vani Subramaniyam (Jyothika), her best friend Radhika (Sharbani Mukherjee) and their friends are pranksters in a ladies' college. Like other college girls, they sing songs, break rules and wreak havoc. They also have a grudge against Gita (Ishita Arun), a very rich, beautiful, arrogant girl from the college.
Producer
Union (2002)
Directed by Chandrakant Kulkarni
Genres Drama
Actors Prateeksha Lonkar, Atul Kulkarni, Shreyas Talpade, Tushar Dalvi, Mohan Joshi, Umesh Kamat
Roles Producer
Rating64%
Sudha is happy with Satish her second husband and she has young daughter, Manu from this marriage. Sudha's son from the first marriage, 'Ananda' is staying with his now newlywed father in Nagpur. He is 12 years old and lives with his grandmother, elder uncle and aunt. He has a blurred memory of his real mother while Sudha also shares same sorrow as she had to stay away from her own son for eight years.