V. Shantaram Special Contribution Award

V. Shantaram Special Contribution Award
V. Shantaram Special Contribution Award
State award for contributions to Marathi cinema
	The 2024 recipient: Mukta Barve
Awarded for	Contribution to Marathi Cinema.
Sponsored by	Government of Maharashtra
Rewards	Gold Medal; ₹ 2,00,000;
First award	2009
Final award	2023
Most recent winner	Mukta Barve
Highlights
Total awarded	14
First winner	Mahesh Kothare

The V. Shantaram Special Contribution Award, instituted in 2009 for the Maharashtra State Film Awards is an award given by the Government of Maharashtra to long-serving film personalities in Marathi cinema. It was named V. Shantaram in honour of V. Shantaram, one of the successful Marathi filmmaker.

Awarded forContribution to Marathi Cinema.

Year	Image	Winner	Field of work	Ref
2009		Mahesh Kothare	Director, actor, writer	^[1]
2010		Sachin	Director, actor, singer
2011	–	Smita Talwalkar	Director, actress, producer	^[2]
2012		Dilip Prabhavalkar	Actor
2013		Reema Lagoo	Actress	^[3]
2014		Ajay-Atul	Music Director
2015		Sonali Kulkarni	Actress	^[4]
2016	–	Alka Kubal	Actress	^[5]
2017	–	Arun Nalawade	Actor
2018		Mrinal Kulkarni	Actress, director	^[6]
2019		Bharat Jadhav	Actor	^[7]
2020		Gajendra Ahire	Director, screenwriter
2021		Ravindra Sathe	Singer
2022		Nagraj Manjule	Director, screenwriter, actor
2023	–	Digpal Lanjekar	Director, actor
2024		Mukta Barve	Actress

Recipients