Satish Manwar is an Indian film director and screenwriter. He grew up in a rural
Maharashtra
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and moved to
Pune
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to learn drama at Center for Performing Arts, commonly known as ''Lalit Kala Kendra'', at
Pune University
Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), formerly the University of Pune, is a public state university located in the city of Pune, India. It was established in 1949, and is spread over a campus in the neighbourhood of Ganeshkhind. The uni ...
. After receiving his M.A. in 1998,
he moved to Mumbai to work as an assistant editor and assistant director. He along with his fellow friends and alumni of ''Lalit Kala Kendra'' co-founded a theatre group called ''Lalit Mumbai''.
His work often deals with the differences between rural and urban areas.
Selected filmography
Personal life
Manwar is married to
Marathi
Marathi may refer to:
*Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India
**Marathi people (Uttar Pradesh), the Marathi people in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh
*Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Mar ...
playwright and screenwriter,
Manaswini Lata Ravindra.
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Living people
Hindi-language film directors
Indian male screenwriters
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
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