Shashank Ketkar Biography ![Update](/style/images/edit_profile.png)
Shashank Ketkar is a popular Marathi actor who predominantly works in Marathi serials. He is married to well-established television actress and his co-star Tejashree Pradhan since February 2014. He is to make his Marathi film debut through the upcoming release - One Way Ticket. After playing the popular roles of Kailash in Kalay Tasmay Namah and Aniket Gaydhani in Swapnanchya Palikadale, he played the lead role of Shrirang "Shri" Gokhale in the popular television soap - Honar Sun Me Hya Gharchi. The lead female role was played by his wife Tejashree Pradhan. The Marathi show premiered in 2013 ended on 24 Jan 2016. This successful television soap made the couple immensely popular among Marathi TV audience.
Ketkar is also a stage actor who has appeared in the Marathi stage plays – Purnaviram and Goshta Tashi Gamtichi. He was also featured in one music video, Yaara in 2015 composed by Hrishikesh Datar, Saurabh Bhalerao and Jasraj Joshi. Yet it was the show - Honar Sun Me Hya Gharchi, which changed his life, both professionally and personally. The successfully completed 500 episodes and has worked wonders for the young actor. It was his sixth show and his first super hit project. He fell in love with his on-screen wife Tajashree on the sets of the show and got married in 2014. They play a traditional couple in the show.
Ketkar has a good record in academic career. He completed Masters in Engineering Management from Sydney, Australia. A sportsperson too, he is a good swimmer and has worked as duty manager of the great athlete and Olympics gold medal winner Ian Thorpe's swimming school in Australia. Since those days, while at Sydney he actively participated in Marathi plays before he moved to India to pursue a career in acting. He joined "Sudarshan Rangamanch", a theatre group in Pune and Purnaviram was his first stage play. He played grandson of Vikram Gokhale in his debut series, Kalay Tasmay Namah, followed by a negative role in Swapnanchya Palikadale. In 2013 he got his breakthrough role of male protagonist through Honar Sun Me Hya Gharchi.
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Updated: February 21, 2016