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Mohan Agashe is a Actor Indian born on 23 july 1947 at Bhor (Inde)

Mohan Agashe

Mohan Agashe
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Birth name Mohan Mahadeo Agashe
Nationality Inde
Birth 23 july 1947 (76 years) at Bhor (Inde)
Awards Padma Shri, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Dr. Mohan Agashe is an Indian theatre and film actor. He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1996.

Biography

He is a psychiatrist by profession and works as a Professor of Psychiatry at the B. J. Medical College and Sassoon Hospital in Pune, India.




Career in psychiatry
Dr. Mohan Agashe studied in B. J. Medical College, Pune for his MBBS and PG degree in Psychiatry. He had been a student of eminent psychiatrist Dr. D.N.Nandy.But during his medical college in Pune,he fell in love with theatre by Utpal Dutt; even the night before his final examination,he was caught red-handed by Prof.Nandy at the Academy of Fine Arts, Rabindrasadan watching a play.Apart from his medical career he had an illustrious career in clinical psychology and psychopharmacology. Agashe started his early career by opting to work in The Government Hospital at Pune. He had the honor of chairing the Organizing Committee meetings for the Annual National Conference of Indian Psychiatric Society held at Armed Forces Medical College, Pune.

Agashe was a founding Director of Maharashtra Institute of Mental Health until he moved on to become Director of FTII. His students have progressed in their careers to become renowned psychiatrists in India, the UK and the United States.


Advisor to the Government
In 1998, Agashe's project to improve the mental health education and service lead to the formation of a new policy on mental education by the Government of Maharastra. He has also served as an Advisor to the Government of Maharastra on Mental Health Education and Service. He was also instrumental in establishing the Maharastra Institute of Mental Health in 1991. MIMH is now a prestigious state level training and research institute in Mental Health Sciences. It is located in Pune, India.


Principal investigator
In 1994, western India witnessed a major earthquake centred on Latur. To understand the mental health effects of the quake, a research project was initiated by the Indian Council of Medical Research. For that project Agashe served as Principal Investigator.

Agashe is currently the Principal Investigator for an Indo-US joint project on Cultural Disorders of Fatigue and Weaknesses.


Career in acting
Agashe's love of acting made him take time out of his busy schedule to work in plays. He started his career in acting by working in plays.


Director at Film and Television Institute of India
From April 1997 to April 2002 he was the Director General of the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune.

Usually with

Goutam Ghose
Goutam Ghose
(4 films)
Om Puri
Om Puri
(12 films)
Prakash Jha
Prakash Jha
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Mohan Agashe (60 films)

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Actor

Ab Tak Chhappan 2, 1h45
Genres Action, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Nana Patekar, Ashutosh Rana, Vikram Gokhale, Gul Panag, Tanmay Jahagirdar, Mohan Agashe
Roles Ex Commissioner Pradhan
Rating58% 2.9007552.9007552.9007552.9007552.900755
Ab Tak Chhappan 2 opens to encounter specialist Sadhu Agashe (Nana Patekar) proclaiming what he did was right. The film then goes into flashback, where we are shown what happened a few months back. Away from Mumbai, with a few cases pending against him, Sadhu now leads a peaceful life in his village (Goa) with his son Aman, mourning the loss of his wife. He cooks, lives in a house by the river and listens to his son playing the piano. However, his retired phase comes to a halt, when ex-police commissioner (Mohan Agashe) convinces Sadhu to get back on the job on the home minister's (Vikram Gokhale) request to tackle Mumbai's escalating crime scene.
Deool Band
Deool Band (2015)

Genres Drama
Actors Gashmeer Mahajani, Girija Joshi, Mohan Joshi, Mohan Agashe
Roles Dr. Vyas
Rating73% 3.683353.683353.683353.683353.68335
Dr. Raghav Shastri, Indian by origin, is NASA's youngest scientist. He returns to his motherland, only to find out that his country is full of God worshippers. However, Raghav is not one of them. He challenges the existence of God and orders the locality to shut the temple within the premises. But in a twist of fate, God himself descends and questions the atheist. In the end, after a dramatic sequence of events, Raghav finally starts believing in God.
Akalpith
Akalpith (2014)

Actors Mohan Agashe, Nirmiti Sawant, Renuka Shahane
Roles Justice Gore

A Man is accused of three murders but in the interrogations he says that he doesn't remember the day's events and hence is considered to be insane. So he is to be transferred to Bhopal psychological research department. Just 14 Hrs before he being transported to Bhopal he says that he has started to remember the events of that day. An urgent special midnight Jury is arranged to record the statement and he is taken there. He is recording his statement and what he remembers, but the problem starts when he remembers that he was present on the place of murders but didn't kill the people. Now he only has 4 hrs to prove to the jury that he is innocent. What happens next is the movie.
Dr. Prakash Baba Amte: The Real Hero, 2h17
Genres Biography
Actors Nana Patekar, Sonali Kulkarni, Mohan Agashe, Tejashree Pradhan Ketkar
Roles Baba Amte
Rating85% 4.286834.286834.286834.286834.28683
This movie showcases the life of Dr. Prakash Baba Amte, a man whose contribution to society is immeasurable. He was unaware of his destination but became an inspiration to the world by teaching the epitome of self-actualization.
Welcome Zindagi, 2h15
Actors Swapnil Joshi, Amruta Khanvilkar, Mohan Agashe, Satish Alekar, Prashant Purushottam Damle, Rajeshwari Sachdev
Rating78% 3.934443.934443.934443.934443.93444
Meera, a young media professional, finds herself cornered every step of the way, as she tries to live a normal life. She feels ignored by her father, betrayed by her fiancé, faces trouble at work. The only escape route she can think of, is taking her own life with a massive dose of sleeping pills.
Prem Mhanje Prem Mhanje Prem Asta
Directed by Mrinal Dev-Kulkarni
Actors Mrinal Dev-Kulkarni, Sachin Khedekar, Pallavi Joshi, Sunil Barve, Suhas Joshi, Mohan Agashe
Rating64% 3.2325653.2325653.2325653.2325653.232565
The movie is a heart-warming story of two different individuals who at one point in their lives were married. A single mother along with her two daughters live with her mother-in-law. Her husband had abandoned them 4 years ago, but staying in the same city had never bothered to check on his family. The only thing he did in those 4 years was to send divorce papers, which his wife has not signed.
Jolly LLB
Jolly LLB (2013)
, 2h8
Directed by Subhash Kapoor
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Arshad Warsi, Boman Irani, Amrita Rao, Saurabh Shukla, Harsh Chhaya, Manoj Pahwa
Roles Senior Dewan
Rating74% 3.7484353.7484353.7484353.7484353.748435
The film begins with a drunk Rahul Dewan (Rahul Siddhartha), racing in an Sports Utility Vehicle against a car, after he is seduced by a woman in that car. He loses control and crashes into a wall on the footpath by the road. The film cuts to a court scene where Jagdish Tyagi aka Jolly (Arshad Warsi), a Lawyer defending a surgeon against a Public interest litigation (PIL) filed against him after the surgeon had his son operate upon a patient in his pursuit of Guinness Book of World Records. Jolly loses the case but decides to move to the capital Delhi to try his luck. He happens to see prominent criminal lawyer Tejinder Rajpal (Boman Irani) defending Rahul Dewan in a sessions court. Rahul Dewan is accused of causing death under the influence of alcohol. Rajpal convinces the judge that prosecution had no evidence to implicate Rahul Dewan and he was being deliberately targeted by the media as he was from a rich family, resulting in Dewan's acquittal.
Maximum
Maximum (2012)

Directed by Kabeer Kaushik
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Sonu Sood, Naseeruddin Shah, Neha Dhupia, Vinay Pathak, Nishikant Dixit, Aarya Babbar
Roles Sathe
Rating47% 2.3833852.3833852.3833852.3833852.383385
Story of Maximum revolves around two of Mumbai Police's top encounter specialists. It's a story of their fight for control and oneupmanship. This fight goes through a complex maze of politics, land deals, fake encounters and bad money.
The King & The Commissioner, 3h10
Directed by Shaji Kailas
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Films about terrorism
Actors Mammootty, Suresh Gopi, Samvrutha Sunil, Salim Kumar, Saikumar, Janardhanan
Roles The Prime Minister
Rating33% 1.684881.684881.684881.684881.68488
The story revolves around Joseph Alex I.A.S (Mammootty) and Bharathchandran IPS (Suresh Gopi). A Pakistan military group under Maj. Abu Jalal Rana trespasses Indian waters, targeting New Delhi. The plan, however, is intercepted by Dr. Emma John of Intelligence Wing as she informs it to her senior Padmabhushan Dr. Sudarshan (Nedumudi Venu). Before they can tell the home minister, however, they are killed by two cops, who is joined by a senior police officer, Shankar Ramdas (Devan). Unbeknownst to them, Imran, a photo journalist manages to take pictures of the scene onto his camera. Meanwhile, Kishore Balakrishnan (Vijay Menon), the senior analyst at the agency, sets off to see Swami Chandramoulishwar (Saikumar) at his ashram demanding for the information he passed before. However, Swami was able to suffocate him before pushing him into the Yamuna river. The next day, the bodies of Kishore, Dr. Sudarshan, and Dr. Emma are all found in the river. Since both the bodies of the doctors are seen in an intimate position, the police concludes that Kishore killed the two out of jealousy, and then killed himself right after by drowning himself into the river.
Masala
Masala (2012)

Actors Girish Kulkarni, Amruta Subhash, Mohan Agashe, Dilip Prabhavalkar
Rating75% 3.7638253.7638253.7638253.7638253.763825
A couple is forced to repeatedly move in search of sustainable business ventures. They live in constant fear of meeting their creditors, whose money they spent in unfruitful investments. When the couple meets another couple, things start changing for the better by following the wise counsel of their new acquaintances. The latter part of the movie showcases these changes.
Phhir
Phhir (2011)

Genres Thriller, Romance
Actors Rajneesh Duggal, Adah Sharma, Rajniesh Duggall, Roshni Chopra, Gurpreet Singh, Parag Tyagi
Rating52% 2.622032.622032.622032.622032.62203
The film opens with a person (presumed to be the protagonist) who goes to a guru in Manchester, who tells him that he has to pay for his crimes in this life and the next one too. That person then goes to the cellar of a Mansion called Dia Mansion, writes all that he has done on a letter, places it in a huge coffin-like box, and then shoots himself.
Gulmohar
Gulmohar (2009)

Directed by Gajendra Ahire
Actors Sonali Kulkarni, Rajit Kapur, Jitendra Joshi, Mohan Agashe, Girija Oak
Rating58% 2.9403252.9403252.9403252.9403252.940325
Deven, an achiever and competent young man is married to Vidya who has loved him for whatever he was and whatever he wants to be.
Valu
Valu (2008)
, 2h15
Directed by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni
Genres Comedy
Actors Atul Kulkarni, Mohan Agashe, Dilip Prabhavalkar, Nirmiti Sawant, Girish Kulkarni, Amruta Subhash
Roles Sarapanch
Rating75% 3.7796753.7796753.7796753.7796753.779675
In the small village of Kusavde, there is a lonely misunderstood wild bull. The bull, "Valu", is actually a holy, consecrated bull which is the responsibility of the village. It is allowed to roam free and is the responsibility of the entire village. But lately, Valu becomes very aggressive and is blamed for every single act of chaos and destruction that happens in and around the village. Now catching the bull becomes equivalent to establishing power in the village for the leaders and for those who are interested in the fringe benefits.