Madhurani Gokhale

Madhurani Gokhale, a k a Madhurani GokhalePrabhulkar is a seasoned actress and singer from Maharashtra, India, who is also a music director and an acting coach as well. She has acted in many Marathi and Hindi TV serials, Plays and Movies, and also a popular face in anchoring TV programs and shows. She has started acting right from her school daysand took part in high school plays, before turning professional even as she was studying in college. Madhurani Gokhale is a talented model too, who has appeared in many commercials, as her face and manner of acting have earned her a good popularity in Marathi Media and among Maharashtrians in particular.

She is known for her singing ability and communication skills, as well. Born in Bhusawal of Jalgaon district, Maharashtra, just 60 KM from the world famous Ajanta, she did her primary schooling there but then has moved to Pune and was brought up in the city. Incidentally, Bhusawal railway junction, which has one of the biggest Railway yards of India, was taken as the model for the construction of the movie set in England for the famed American movie by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, “Bhowani Junction” (1956), starring Ava Gardner Ava Lavinia Gardner was an eminent American actres >> Read More... . In Pune, as she was studying in Sir Parshurambhau College, eminently known as the S.P College, situated at Sadashiv Peth, down Tilak Road, she made the Play “See Saw”, with her own script and presentation. The Play won the award for Best Play in Pune’s Inter-college annual Drama Competition festival, “PurshottamKarandak”, that year. It can be said that her professional career started from that one particular presentation.

Sanjay Pawar One who believes in “the role of a writer is not t >> Read More... , the Director, was there at the Play as one of the judges, and he had her recommended to the famous Producer Kanchan Nayak to be associated right through many of his plays and movies. She had completed her degree in Mass Communications at the University of Pune soon, and after that her parents got her married to her friend and companion Pramod Prabhulkar. The husband and wife team has started an institute in Kothrud, Pune, and its Marathi name is Mirekalsa Academy of Arts and Media Private Limited, ‘Miracles Institute of Acting’ for short. They conduct workshops for TV Ads and acting. Madhurani has played cameo in one of the films made by the couple, “Goad Gupit” (2003), with another actor by the name Aadesh Bandekar. She has also acted in a Stage Play that goes by the name, “TumchaAamcha Same Astaa”.

She has worked as the music composer in the film, “Sunder MajheGhar”, by Vrinda Kirodian, which featured Shreya Ghoshal and also Sadhana Sargam, both the artists performing only on Madhurani’s request. She had been instrumental in the 48 marriages that happened during and after her show, “YandakartavyaAahe”. The Afternoon program in E-TV, “HichMajhiMaitrin”, is another TV show that she is famous for. In this Marathi show produced by Madhavi, she interviews Marathi celebrities from the regional entertainment field. As for future plans, while her husband is busy with the script of a movie, Madhurani GokhalePrabhulkar is busy planning a children’s music album that is rather a collection of poems that speak of moral values. “ Asambhav” (February 2007 to August 2009) was a serial in which she was cast in along with stars like Sunil Barve Known for his character as Akash in a renowned TV >> Read More... and the talented Urmila Kanetkar.

The serial was directed by Satish Rajwade and was reportedly produced for Zee Marathi by Atharva Communications. In the music field, she has been credited with the album, “ Tishnagi Tishnagi Dil Ki is a Pakistani series aired on Geo >> Read More... ” (2009), with 4 songs, all with singer Peenaz Masani. She is also a host in the DD Sahyadri program called Music Track. In one of the many programs she has compered for DD, renowned Ghazal singer Suryaksha Deshpande has taken part and sung on her request. On 10th of June 2014, it was reported that the students of her institute at Pune, Miracles Academy,were making a ‘dharna’ and were seen making a complaint with the local police station for what they call irregularities and breach of trust against the management. The representatives of the complaining students reportedly have told the media that the institute had collected sums of around Rupees 65,000 as fees for a six-month course, and had made false promises of acting classes by prominent celebrities, and have also offered false promises of offering acting chances in the in-house productions.