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About Vasant Shankar Kanetkar
- Vasant Shankar Kanetkar (20 March 1922– 31 January 2000) was a Marathi playwright and novelist from Maharashtra, India. He was born in the town of Rahimatpur in Satara District, Maharashtra.
- His father, Shankar Keshav Kanetkar, was a poet who wrote poetry under the pen name Kavi Girish and was a founding member of a circle of poets named Ravikiran Mandal.
- Vasant Kanetkar was educated in Pune and Sangli.
- After passing M.A.
- exam in 1948 from Sangli, he joined as a lecturer in Nashik in 1950.
- He received wide admiration from the audience after his play 'Raigadala Jevha Jag Yete' (???????? ?????? ??? ????).
- He kept the Marathi commercial theatre vibrant and live for more than two decades.
- Five of his plays received best play award of the year given by Maharashtra State Government.
- In 1966, Kanetkar received a Filmfare Award for Best Story for the Hindi movie Aansoo Ban Gaye Phool, which was an adaptation of Ashroonchi Zhali Phule.
- Kanetkar received a Padma Shri award in 1992 for his literary accomplishments.
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