Shashank Ketkar
Shashank Ketkar is an Marathi television and theater actor predominantly working in the Marathi. He is best known for his role as Shree on the popular daily soap Honar Sun Me Hya Gharchi.
Personal life
Shashank Ketkar was married to actress Tejashree Pradhan in 2014, but they divorced in 2015. Shashank married again in 2017 to Priyanka Dhavale who is a lawyer by profession and hails from Dombivli, a city near Mumbai.Career
Ketkar did Masters of Engineering Management from Sydney, Australia. He worked as a duty manager at Olympic gold-medalist Ian Thorpe's swimming school in Australia. While in Sydney, he took part in Marathi plays and musical programs organized by cultural groups. Upon completing his education and on returning to India, he decided to indulge in performing arts, which had been only his hobby up till then. He joined "Sudarshan Rangamanch", a theatre group in Pune where he landed his first role in the play Purnaviram, which was directed by Pramod Kale and written by Sachin Kundalkar. He then auditioned for Marathi television shows and debuted as Kailash on ETV Marathi's daily soap Kalay Tasmay Namah, where he played grandson of Vikram Gokhale. He also did a negative character of Aniket Gaydhani in the serial Swapnanchya Palikadale that aired on Star Pravah.Ketkar's biggest break came in 2013 with the Zee Marathi's daily soap Honar Sun Me Hya Gharchi where his lead role as Shreerang 'Shree' Gokhale made him popular. In 2013, at the Zee Marathi Awards, Ketkar received the "Best Actor" and "Best Couple" award along with his co-star, who plays his wife Janhavi. The show grabbed 11 awards in various categories. In 2015, the show's lead characters Shree and Janhavi started trending on social networks and Whatsapp as Janhavi's famous dialogue in the show "Kahihi ha Shree!", which she regularly repeats, became popular.
In 2014, he played the role of Mangesh Kadam and Leena Bhagwat's son in the play Goshta Tashi Gamtichi, for which he won the Best Supporting Actor at the 2015 Akhil Bhartiya Natya Parishad Awards. In 2015, his first single "Yaara" was released by Sagarika Musics. The romantic-single is co-sung by Deepika Jog and the video also features Ketkar.
Works
;Films| Year | Title |
| 2016 | One Way Ticket |
| 2017 | Wada |
| 2018 | Aaron |
| 2018 | 31 Divas |
| 2020 | Goshta Eka Paithanichi |
;Television serials
| Year | Title | Role | Channel |
| Kalay Tasmay Namah | Kailash | ETV Marathi | |
| Swapnanchya Palikadale | Aniket Gaydhani | Star Pravah | |
| 2013–2016 | Honar Sun Me Hya Gharchi | Shreerang Gokhale | Zee Marathi |
| 2016 | Ithech Taaka Tambu | Kapil Sathe | Zee Yuva |
| 2016 | Naktichya Lagnala Yaycha Ha | Shree Ketkar | Zee Marathi |
| 2018 - Present | He Man Baware | Siddharth | Colors Marathi |
; Album
| Year | Album | Song | Composer | Writer | Co-artist |
| 2015 | Yaara | Yaara | Hrishikesh Datar, Saurabh Bhalerao, Jasraj Joshi. | Vaibhav Joshi | Deepika Jog |
;Plays
- Purnaviram.
- Goshta Tashi Gamtichi.
- Goshta Tashi Gamtichi 2.
Awards