Laxmikant Shetgaonkar
{{short description|Indian filmmaker}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Use Indian English|date=December 2018}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Laxmikant Shetgaonkar
| image = Laxmikant Shetgaonkar at IFFI Press Conference in 2011 (cropped).jpg
| alt = Laxmikant Shetgaonkar at IFFI Press Conference in 2011
| caption = Shetgaonkar in 2011
| birth_date =
| birth_place = Cuncolim, Goa, India
| occupation = {{hlist|Director|screenwriter}}
| years_active = 2004–2013
| notable_works = {{flatlist|
}}
| awards = Yuva Srujan Puraskar (2009)
}}
Laxmikant Shetgaonkar is an Indian film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his critically acclaimed Konkani films, Paltadacho Munis and Baga Beach.
{{cite web
| title = Laxmikant Shetgaonkar's next venture is 'Baga Beach'
|work= The Hindu
| url = http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/laxmikant-shetgaonkars-next-venture-is-baga-beach/article2664734.ece
|date=27 November 2011
| accessdate = 2014-09-01
}}
Early life
Shetgaonkar was born in Cuncolim, Salcete. While in Delhi, he developed a love for films after attending many film festivals.
{{Cite web
|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Espousing-the-cause-of-the-Konkani-film-industry/articleshow/55643581.cms
|title=Espousing the cause of the Konkani film industry
|last=Malkarnekar
|first=Gauree
|date=27 November 2016
|website=The Times of India
|access-date=2018-12-19
}}
Career
Shetgaonkar's career began as an assistant director and screenplay writer in Mumbai. His first film was Eka Sagar Kinaree (A Seaside Story), which won him a Golden Conch in the Best Fiction category at the Mumbai International Film Festival. His next film, Paltadacho Munis (The Man Beyond the Bridge), premiered at 2009 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the prize of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI Prize) for Discovery. Set in Goa, the film is about a recently widowed forest ranger in a dwindling forest, who strikes up an unlikely relationship with a woman he finds lost and alone in the woods.
{{cite web
| title = The Man Beyond the Bridge: Film Review
|work=The Hollywood Reporter
| url = http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/man-beyond-bridge-film-review-29627
|date=2010-10-14
| accessdate = 2014-09-01
| first = Justin
| last = Lowe
{{Cite news
|url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/that-one-from-goa/article25517956.ece
|title=That one from Goa
|last=Chatte
|first=Sachin
|date=2018-11-16
|work=The Hindu
|access-date=2018-12-19
|language=en-IN
|issn=0971-751X
}}
In 2013, Shetgaonkar released Baga Beach, which won the Best Feature Film in Konkani award at the 61st National Film Awards.{{cite web|title=61st National Film Awards For 2013 |url=http://www.dff.nic.in/List%20of%20Awards.pdf# |publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals |date=16 April 2014 |accessdate=2014-04-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416181218/http://www.dff.nic.in/List%20of%20Awards.pdf |archivedate=16 April 2014 }} After the awards, the Goa Legislative Assembly passed a resolution congratulating him for making the film about "a topic which needed much attention", and called it an "eye opener on the issues related to children on our beaches."{{Cite news|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/goa-assembly-passes-resolution-hailing-makers-of-baga-beach-114072301193_1.html|title=Goa Assembly passes resolution hailing makers of 'Baga Beach'|agency=Press Trust of India|date=2014-07-23|work=Business Standard India|access-date=2018-12-20}}
Filmography
| class="wikitable" |
| Year || Title |
|---|
| 2004
| Eka Sagar Kinaree (A Seaside Story) |
| 2009
| Paltadacho Munis (The Man Beyond the Bridge) |
| 2013 |
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://laxmikant.net/}}
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Category:Film directors from Goa
Category:Indian male screenwriters
Category:Konkani-language film directors
Category:21st-century Indian people