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name: "Girish Kulkarni"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/girish-kulkarni"
fi1m_id: "girish-kulkarni"
imdb_id: "nm2971390"
tmdb_id: 587090
wikidata_id: "Q2162531"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "25 November 1977"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:15:52.460682+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Girish Kulkarni

## Identity

Girish Kulkarni

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/girish-kulkarni
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** girish-kulkarni
- **IMDb ID:** nm2971390
- **TMDB ID:** 587090
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2162531
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girish_Kulkarni, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2162531, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2971390/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/587090

Actor. Born 25 November 1977 in Solapur, Maharashtra, India.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 25 November 1977, Solapur, Maharashtra, India
- **Also known as:** Girish Pandurang Kulkarni
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girish_Kulkarni, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2162531, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2971390/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/587090

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Dangal*](https://film.one/film/dangal.md) (78)

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## Biography

Girish Pandurang Kulkarni is an Indian actor, writer, producer and director. Born on 25 November 1977 in Nannaj, Solapur district, Maharashtra, he trained in mechanical engineering and began with local stage plays before moving into film.

He is best known for his work in Marathi cinema, including *Valu* (2008), *Vihir* (2009) and *Deool* (2011), for which he received National Film Awards for Best Actor and Best Screenplay. In Hindi films and series he has appeared as Coach Pramod Kadam in *Dangal* (2016), Inspector Jadhav in *Ugly* (2013), Nalawade in *Kaabil* (2017) and Bipin Bhosle in *Sacred Games* (2018).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dangal* (2016), Fi1m 78, as Coach Pramod Kadam — [page](https://film.one/film/dangal.md)

## Complete filmography (41)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Baapya* (2026), as Anil Borkar
- *Matka King* (2026), series, as TP D'souza
- *Interrogation* (2025), as Rajan
- *Deva* (2025), as Jairaj Apte
- *Ekda Yeun Tar Bagha* (2023), as Shravan Phulhambrikar
- *Ganapath* (2023), as Senior
- *Boyz 4* (2023), Actor
- *Jailer* (2023), as Bal Singh
- *Thankam* (2023), as Jayanth Sakhalkar
- *Boyz 3* (2022), Actor
- *Jahaan Chaar Yaar* (2022), as Madhukar Rane
- *Guilty Minds* (2022), series, as Bhandari
- *Bhoot Police* (2021), as Santu
- *Sunflower* (2021), series, as Sub Inspector Chetan Tambe
- *Crime Next Door* (2021), series, as Ranjeet Singh
- *Hello Charlie* (2021), as Priyesh Patel
- *Dithee* (2019), Actor
- *Trijya - Radius* (2019), as Visputey (Drunkard in the Bar)
- *Firebrand* (2019), Actor
- *Sacred Games* (2018), series, as Bipin Bhosle
- *Fanney Khan* (2018), as Karan Kakkad
- *Faster Fene* (2017), as Appa
- *Kaabil* (2017), as Nalawade
- *The Kill* (2016), as The Husband
- *Dangal* (2016), as Coach Pramod Kadam — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/dangal.md)
- *Jaundya Na Balasaheb* (2016), as Balasaheb · Director, Writer, Producer
- *Highway* (2015), Writer
- *Postcard* (2014), as Postman
- *Salaam* (2014), as Shankar
- *Ugly* (2013), as Inspector Jadhav
- *Pune 52* (2013), as Amar Apte · Dialogue, Producer
- *Deool* (2011), as Keshya · Screenplay
- *Vihir* (2009), as Bhavshya Mama · Writer, Producer
- *Smell* (2009), as Mangesh
- *The Damned Rain* (2009), as Kisna
- *Valu* (2008), as Jeevan · Screenplay
- *Mahercha Daivat* (2007), Actor
- *The Grinding Machine* (2004), as Brother
- *Alcohol*, Actor
- *Khashaba*, Actor
- *Ikroop*, as Girish

## Gallery

- ![Girish Kulkarni](https://film.one/media/person/103168/gallery-d1b9035e112a.jpg) Girish Kulkarni — Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Girish_Kulkarni_at_Masala_Premier.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Indian film actor, writer, and producer Girish Pandurang Kulkarni at 2008 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival](https://film.one/media/person/103168/gallery-921358c9c663.jpg) Indian film actor, writer, and producer Girish Pandurang Kulkarni at 2008 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival — che (Please credit as "Petr Novák, Wikipedia" in case you use this outside Wikimedia projects.), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Girish_Kulkarni_KVIFF.jpg/1280px-Girish_Kulkarni_KVIFF.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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