Milind Gawali

Today we had a meeting with Shankar Mahadev, Writer,Director Rajan Prabhu had come all the way from Poona, with his beautiful song written by himself " त्या पहाटेची मी वाट पाहे " which Shankar liked it very much and has agreed to sing , me and Shakar were meet after ages, first time we met through Swapna Waghmare, who was Directing a serial called " Khusboo " and Shankar had sang the title song, that time also he was star as his album " Breathless " was a major hit. And that time when we met he which I thought was the first time, but he reminded me that we had met before with Shivaji park group of friends, that time also he was nice and polite and after many many years as he had become a bigger star singer music Director, he has become more humble, he treated Rajan who had come with Santosh & Kiran with respect, I was little worried that he might not recognise me or being a Marathi film he might give a reason to say no, but he fixed next weeks recordin...

Mahesh Tilekar " मुर्ति लहान पण कीर्ति महान " Nothing is impossible for this man. This picture is click at the Dada Kondke studio, pune. from your right : Kuldeep Pawar, Asha Kale, Varsha Usgaonkar, myself & the great Mahesh Tilekar. This song was done for the awareness of Bird Flu. For Venkateshwara Hatcheries, Dance Director Deepali Vichare. This was the first time I worked with Varsha, the star of Marathi films and Asha Kale the yesteryear's star. In this song we also had the legend, the king Nilubhau ( Nilu Phule ). and the funniest part was I am a vegetarian, and the ad was to promote chicken. Working with Varsha was a great experience , she has the star quality in her and along with that she is very down to earth. Also While shooting had memorable time with Nilu bhau, he shared his shooting experiences those memories are still fresh in my mind. The All Time Great Marathi Show Ever Happened Till Date Was " TARE TARAKA " and not to mention the organise...

Bhagwan Das in the black T' Shirt and black cap. This was a nice Ad film shot by Bhagwan on 35mm CinemaScope for a oil company at the BR studios. Me and Bhagwan are great friends , have done ad film for Bisleri , the visiting card he designed for me was a unique one, we are great friends and are looking forward to do a film together, every time we meet we talk about doing a film , And I am sure he would make a great film.

Modelling was always something as a bonus, never thought of full time profession, mostly did suiting's , and again the credit goes to a Photographer friend Mukesh Mistry , for 5 years I modelled for all his catalogues like G'mens , Aakar , Vastram etc, he would always call me, same print shoot for jeans, also did some TV commercials. Stopped doing when things changed, casting were done through auditions, I was the most uncomfortable in auditions, I never liked the process and so drifted away. The director I enjoyed doing Ads was Bhagwan Das , a very creative artist, a painter, graphic designer.

" Halad Tuzi Kunku Maze" Director Sandeep Navre , Second film with him, first film " Bhavachi laxmi " by him I was nominated for Best Supporting Actor's award for Zee Marathi channel, and the funniest part was I play the main lead in the film and they nominate me for supporting role. Sandeep has a very good sense of rural audience, when I went to Phaltan and Satara for the release of " Bhavachi Laxmi " I was over whelmed by the audience response. This film has a very touching story, and I play a character called " Ram " ,who would surely get sympathy from the audience, enjoyed thoroughly, 10 to 15 % of the shoot is still remaining, which they are planning to do in the last week of this month at filmcity , Mumbai .

Campus will always remain very close to my heart, 4 years of television success, and all the work on television which I did that is more than 3000 episodes is all because of Campus, the character " Ravi Bhatnager " is still remembered by many, miss so many people who are no more now including Sanjeevji , his wife Geeta who was always full of life, who was a very strong women and always eager to throw a party for smallest reason and treat all of us, we had become a huge Campus family. And now after so many years very few are in touch, just bump in at functions and parties like last week met Resham at Deepali's success party and started remembering the 25 th episode party at Juhu hotel where she had dance till she fell, and I realised how years pass by and just memories remain.

1) Sudhir Pande who played my father. 2)Arif, Pari, Ninad, Resham, Suchita & me 3) Ballu, Sandy, Prashant, Ravi & me Paritosh Painter , me & Resham This entire group was close to Sanjeev, which had Shefali Chaya, Bharat Nerkar ( One of the best Cinematographer of India television ), Vijay ( best recordist famous for no dubbing when cordless were not in use). Indrajeet Arora a dear friend of Sanjeev Bhatacharya and me too. Sanjeev Seth ( handsome villian ) & Ravi Kolekar Sanjeev Loved to be loved by his Actors , he had a very deep emotional bonding with most of them, everyone of us have great memories of him. I owe Campus to one friend and that is Kannan Iyer, before Campus I had done a Hindi film called Vartaman, where I met Kannan, and he was the decent of the lot, he had come from Delhi after the successful serial Fauji with Shahrukh Khan, and he called me one day and said let us go on the set of a new serial called Campus at St Xaviers school. I was not at all keen...