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Upendra Limaye (born 8 November 1969) is an Indian actor, who won the National Film Award for his role in the Marathi film '' Jogwa''. On the centenary of Indian cinema in April 2013, ''
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Personal life

Upendra Limaye was born and grew up in Pune’s Sadashiv Peth. He is married to Dr Swati and they have two children. In Pune, Upendra Limaye attended Bharti Vidyapeeth and New English High School.


Career

He has acted in numerous experimental plays, Marathi parallel films, television serials, Hindi mainstream movies and a few South Indian films. He has worked with renowned stage and film directors like Madhur Bhandarkar, Ram Gopal Verma, Amol Palekar, Rajiv Patil, Jabbar Patel, Satish Alekar, Vinay Apte, Waman Kendre, Chandrakant Kulkarni, Anant Mahadevan, Karupaniannan and others. His performance in the film ''Jogva'', earned him the Best Male Actor award at the 56th National Films Awards in 2010, making him the first Marathi actor to be honoured with. Besides ‘Jogwa’, he has appeared in several National award-winning films, like ‘Mukta,’ ‘Bangarwadi,’ ‘Sarkarnama,’ ‘Dhyasparva’, ‘Chandni Bar,’ ‘Page 3,’ ‘Traffic Signal,’ to mention a few. In 1988, along with his friends za Upendra founded an Experimental Theatre platform called ‘Parichay’. In the next decade, Upendra acted in numerous experimental and commercial plays.


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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Limaye, Upendra 1974 births Living people Indian male film actors Male actors in Marathi cinema Male actors in Hindi cinema Male actors from Pune Best Actor National Film Award winners Marathi actors 20th-century Indian male actors 21st-century Indian male actors