Santosh Juvekar
Santosh Juvekar is an Indian actor who works in Marathi films, TV, and stage, and has also appeared in Hindi films and web series. He was born on 12 December 1984 in Gadhinglaj, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, and studied at SVPM, Kalwa.
He began acting in 2004 in the Marathi play Aani Makarand Rajadhyaksha, playing Naren Deshmukh. The play, directed by Dilip Kolhatkar, also starred Vikram Gokhale. Juvekar became popular on television with the show Ya Gojirvanya Gharaat.
His film debut was Blind Game (2006), directed by Rajiv Patil, with a strong cast including Anant Jog and Upendra Limaye, and a small role for Mukta Barve. He later played leading roles in films such as Zenda, Morya, Matter, Shala, Fakt Ladh Mhana, Sanai Choughade, Date Bhet, Rege, and Sharyat, and he played an Army officer in 31December: The Mirror. In 2017, he was nominated for Best Actor at the Ambarnath Marathi Film Festival for Gadbad Gondhal. He also acts in the web series Struggler Saala on YouTube.
Juvekar’s first Hindi film was Mumbai Meri Jaan (2008), about the 2006 Mumbai train bombings, with a cast that included R. Madhavan, Irrfan Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Paresh Rawal and Kay Kay Menon. The film won multiple awards, including a National Film Award for Best Special Effects in 2008. In 2017 he appeared in Ascharya Fuck It (Ascharyachakit!). He played Vilas, a hostile taxi driver by night and an aspiring Marathi leader by day, in Bhonsle (2020). He has since played a Police Inspector in Darlings (Netflix, 2022) and in Kuttey (2023), and a role named Guddu in Minus 31: The Nagpur Files. His upcoming film is Chhava, directed by Samit Kakkad.
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