Better known for her memorable performance in Marathi film ‘Dhag’ read review which won her National Film award for best actress 8 years ago, Usha Jadhav is once again in news. Now, the talented actress has won the Best actress award for her performance in the Marathi film ‘Mai ghat – Crime No. 103/2005′ at the Indo German Film Week held at Berlin.

Originally from Kolhapur, Usha travelled to Mumbai via Pune, where she was doing a job. Her passion for art, brought her in search of roles in films. Initially, she received some modelling assignments and in the year 2007 found an important role in Madhur Bhandarkar‘s film ‘Traffic Signal’. This was enough for her to make progress in her acting career, with few more important roles in Hindi films. Last year , Usha also performed lead role in Aruna Raje‘s Marathi film ‘Firebrand’ released on Netflix. But now, her lead role in this Marathi film ‘Mai ghat’ have raised big expectations from this film, which is yet to be released.