Swapna Patker is a corporate trainer and business woman better known for 2015 Marathi film ''

Balkadu ''Balkadu'' is a 2015 Indian Marathi language film. The film stars Umesh Kamat, Neha Pendse and Prasad Oak in lead roles and stars Supriya Pathare, Tiku Talsania, Pushkar Shrotri, Anand Ingale in supporting roles. Balkadu was directed by Atul K ...

'', a biopic of Shivsena founder Balasaheb Thackeray. She is chief managing director of The Royal Maratha Entertainment, a film production company. She is the founder and editor of TNG Times, an online news portal that covers stories related to politics, business, sports, and entertainment. Patker is author of ''Jeevan Funda'', a Marathi language

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, published in 2013.

Corporate Trainer

Patker is a corporate trainer, CBT and "wellness consultant" from

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. She founded Mindworks Training Systems, a wellness clinic and online

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, and training setup. Dr. Patker has expertise in children, adult and teenage counseling. She lays focus on emotion handling,

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medicine and

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; and specializes in wellness training for children, parents and corporate. As a dream analyst, she guides you through the interpretation of your own dreams and their application to real-life problems with the use of cognitive (CBT) and emotive (REBT) therapies. She runs a life coaching practice in India.

Writer

Besides mind training, Patker is active in other creative areas also. She is the author of book 'Jivanfunda'. She did writing for 'Corporate India' a magazine covering the corporate every month through an eye lens of finance & industry growth. She even wrote a Harvard Business review on 'India & Business'. She used to write columns named 'Corporate Mantra' & 'Athavdyacha Manus' in Dainik Samana.

Producer

In 2015, Under the banner of The Royal Maratha Entertainment, Patker produced a

Marathi language Marathi (; , 𑘦𑘨𑘰𑘙𑘲, , ) is a Classical languages of India, classical Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by Marathi people in the Indian state of Maharashtra and is also spoken in Goa, and parts of Guj ...

film

, which is biopic of late Balasaheb Thackeray. She also wrote lyrics for the film.

Hotelier

As a woman entrepreneur, She founded ''Saffron 12'', a multi-cuisine and fine-dining family restaurant in Mumbai. At the launch of Saffron 12, on 12 March 2013,

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, Mudasir Ali, Tajdar Amrohi,

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and wife Padma,

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, Gary Richardson and

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were among the guests spotted.

Personal life

On 8 June 2021 she was arrested in fake medical degree case by Bandra police in Mumbai. Patker alleged the arrest to be a "revenge arrest" because she had filed a case in which she alleged being stalked by particular individuals "allegedly at the behest of

Shiv Sena Shiv Sena (1966–2022) (; ; SS) was a right-wing Marathi regionalist Hindutva-based political party in India founded in 1966 by Bal Thackeray, who was later succeeded by Uddhav Thackeray. The party is split into two parties: the Uddha ...

Member of Parliament

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." Bombay high court granted bail to Patker on 27 June 2021.

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