Popular veteran Marathi and Hindi stage and film personality Dr. Mohan Agashe will be felicitated with the prestigious ‘Jeevangaurav’ award on 5thNovember 2011 by the Akhil Bharatiya Natyaparishad, Pune. The award will be presented to him by renowned senior actor Dr. Shreeram Lagoo. Incidentally, Dr. Agashe has completed 50 years of his acting career.

Dr. Mohan Agashe, who began his career with Sai Paranjape’s Little Theatres went on to perform in various Marathi popular plays like ‘Ghashiram Kotwal’, ‘Begum Barve’ and ‘Aadhe Adure’ in Hindi; besides doing memorable roles in films like ‘Saamna’, ‘Sinhasan’, ‘Jait Re Jait’ and Aruna Raje’s Hindi film ‘Rihaee’. He was also in Ram Gopal Verma’s film ‘Ab Tak Chappan’. At present, his marathi play ‘Katkone Trikon’ is in the news. Dr. Agashe is also doing a serial ‘Guntata Hriday Hey’ on Zee Marathi.