Shashank Shende

Movies

Ankush
Father
Ankush, an clever boy belonging to a middle-class family, has high expectations placed on him. Ravi falls in love with him. In an attempt to save his own life, Ankush gets caught between a group of bullies.
Tarri
Tarri's father
A young hot tempered boy, Sangram popularly known as Tarri for his fearless attitude and unfettered courage, he fights against all odds and powerful adversaries to achieve what he has decided.
Nay Varan Bhat Loncha Kon Nai Koncha
Babi
This movie is a brutal look at coming of age in a city whose citizens have been famished by brutality and sin for centuries. It is said that the night sky of Mumbai has been forever haunted - hiding the beautiful twinkling stars by the curse of countless lives lost in a ruthlessly expanding city. The film, soaked in the fog of these ancestors, explores what it takes to grow up in a deprived community, looking to satiate the hunger of one's soul. Enacted by two young souls, The film is a director's masterpiece.
Chronicle of Space
The move from the city to the country, the disappearance of the father. Nobody explained to Dhigu why this is so. Throughout the summer, the observant boy takes note of his surroundings.
Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior
Shelaar Mama
When Aurangzeb recruits his trusted soldier Udaybhan to control the Kondhana fort, Shivaji's military leader Tanhaji Malusare and his army of Maratha warriors set out to recapture the fortress.
Kaagar
Guruji / Prabhakarao Deshmukh
Yuvraj works for a renowned politician, Prabhakar, and falls in love with his daughter, Rani. However, a brewing political conspiracy changes the course of many lives.
Buddha
Father Benedict Daddario
In the drought stricken eastern part of Maharashtra, the Christian missionaries decide to sell the land given to Dalits in exchange for their conversion to Christianity.
The Quest
'The Quest [Ringan]' is a story about the boundless love between father and son. Their life is hell on earth. Father Arjun's problems are getting too much for him: His land is affected by drought, their livelihood is threatened. Seeing no way out, he considers to take his own life. Only the unconditional love for his son motivates him to not give up and look for work, to be able to keep his land. Will the father be strong enough to secure his son's future? A film and an appeal for morality, reflecting important issues such as integrity, honesty, and mutual responsibility in times of need.
Highway
Highway is a film of that escape which all of us yearn for. It is an attempt to see our own reflections in today’s time.
Hate Story 2
Kaka
A young photographer from Mumbai uses her mind to play games with a prominent Hindu rightist leader.
Rajjo
Gannewala
The journey of a nautch girl in the most extraordinary circumstances. Rajjo and Chandu fall in love against the backdrop of the dying Kothas of Mumbai.
Ghanchakkar
Baba
A safe cracker claims he has lost his memory when two criminals come calling for their cut of the bank heist loot.
Tuhya Dharma Koncha?
Bija
"Kawdu and Bhulabai are a tribal couple living in a tiger reserve somewhere in Maharashtra. Their idyllic life gets a rude shock after Kawdu (Upendra Limaye), who had gone into the forest to fetch a medicinal root for his ailing baby, is arrested on charges of having killed a tiger. Desperate to save the life of her baby, Bhulabai (Vibhawari Deshpande) rushes to a Christian missionary, and showered with care and concern, embraces Christianity under the belief that this new god has different powers from her “own” gods, and will solve her problems. However, freeing her husband from jail is another affair, and for this she is advised to seek the help of Naxalites living in the nearby forest, through whom she acquires a new deity—Karl Marx. Even as these new gods find their place on her altar beside Waghdeo and Naagdeo, the traditional nature deities of her community, the community itself shuts the family out for having dropped its own gods." - Aparna Pallavi
Force
Arvind
A vengeful drug-dealer/gangster targets and terrorizes an entire police unit and their families.
Chillar Party
Minister Bhide
A gang of innocent but feisty kids who lead carefree lives in Chandan Nagar colony, take on the big bad world of politics when one of their friend's life is endangered.
Pangira
The story of ‘Pangira’ is all about how rapidly Indian villages have changed, over a period of time. Old rural hospitality and contented, peaceful village life – is now a History! Right from natural resources to local politics – ‘Indian village’ has changed and IS still changing from every aspect. Miss-use …of drinking and farming water, un-imaginable destruction of natural resources by cutting down trees in and around villages is normal. Development is happening, but with ‘Jilha Parishads’ and ‘Panchayat Samitees’, politics and courruption has become integral part of the system. At the end, a farmer, a common man, still does not get the price he deserves for his hard work.
He...
He...' is a story of a 13-year ragpicker boy Hari from the Slums of Mumbai who gets a chance to act in a short movie. Hereafter his friends call him Hero. Under the name 'Hero' he starts a journey, a journey which is all waiting and observing. Under his observation, he confronts the dark side of the society but practically he finds himself helpless. The name Hero gives him a new window to look at his harsh reality.
City of Gold
Anna
Today, there is hardly anyone who hasn't visited the swanky shopping malls, nightclubs, lounge bars, clubs and other such lifestyle destinations that sprung up across the centre of Mumbai. However, very few know that buried deep below these glittering edifices to consumerism lies the dark, dirty and painful reality of many thousands of mill workers who once worked the cotton mills in this very same area. Rising and toiling to the wail of the mill sirens each and every day, seven days a week, these workers embodied the true unbridled zeal and unflagging spirit of the city and played a pivotal role in the evolution of Mumbai as the modern day business capital of India. And then it suddenly was as if they never existed. Following the mill workers strike in the mid-80s, these mills began closing down rapidly and the mill-workers mysteriously disappeared...