Actor and film maker Shashank Udapurkar is a happy man today. He was lucky to find his film’s release and success thereafter in theatres last year, before the lockdown began by end of March 2020. Now, he is enjoying more fruits from his film’s success at different international and National film festivals. Recently, at the seventh Rajasthan International film festival held at Mehrangad Fort ,Jodhpur Shashank Udapurkar won the best director award besides his film ‘Prawaas’ (movie review) winning the Special Jury award for best regional film. The film’s producer Om Changani also won the Pride of Rajasthan award for the selection of ‘Prawaas’at the IFFI 2020 .

Reacting to this big success, director- actor Shashank Udapurkar said, “It was a big honour to screen this film to conclude this festival and the standing ovation given by the audience after watching this film, was more than an award.” ‘Prawaas’ has also been selected for screening at the Trichur International film festival in Kerala. So, there are many more awards expected to come. The film stars popular Marathi artistes like Ashok Saraf, Padmini Kolhapure, Vikram Gokhale, Shreyas Talpade and Shashank Udapurkar.