Lokmat
Maharashtrian
Of The Year

Great people do not aim to be exceptional. It is their deeds that make them great. It is because they dare to dream differently. It is because of their sacrifice and commitment that they can translate their dreams into reality. It is this daring, determination, and courage that makes these heroes a source of inspiration for all.

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Padma Shri
Dr. Abhay Bang

Ajay Atul

Anu Malik

Ayaz Memon

Dr. Bhalchandra Mungekar

Padma Shri
Dr. Rajendra Badwe

Nivedita Saraf

Prakash Javdekar

Prasoon Joshi

Prithviraj Chavan

Rahul Joshi

Raj Nayak

Ravi Jadhav

Dr. Vijay Darda

Vikram Shroff

Dr. Ramakant Panda

Mahesh Bhatt

Milind Deora

Nitin Gadkari

Dr. Vijay Darda

Arnab Goswami

Vikram Limaye

Mrinal Kulkarni

Padma Shri
Dr. Prakash Amte

Sunil Sood

Ayaz Memon

Harsh Goenka

Madhur Bhandarkar

Medha Patkar

Padma Shri
Popatrao Pawar

Praful Patel

Prof.Shashikumar Chitre

Sushil Kumar Shinde

Padma Shri Ujjwal Nikam

Dr. Achyut Godbole

Ashutosh Gowarikar

Dhanraj Pillay

Padma Bhushan
Julio Ribeiro

Medha Patkar

Padma Shri
Rajdeep Sardesai

Shobha De

Padma Bhushan Shri
Anna Hazare

B.N.Deshmukh

Padma Shri
Dilip Vengsarkar

Padma Vibhushan
Dr. Raghunath Mashelkar

Padma
Bhushan Gulzar

Padma Shri
Lila Poonawalla

Padma Shri
Rajdeep Sardesai

Ankur Mehra

Padma Bhushan
Shri Anna Hazare

Padma Vibhushan
Asha Bhosle

Jaidev Shroff

Mahesh Manjrekar

Piyush Goyal

Rajesh Khanvilkar

Rishi Darda

Ronnie Screwvala

Sachin Khedekar

Sajjan Jindal

Ajinkya Rahane

Padma Bhushan
Dr. Suresh Advani

Dr. Vijay Darda

Aakash Chopra

Gaur Gopal Das

Geetanjali Kirloskar

Hital Meswani

Mahesh Kale

Praveen Pardeshi

Padma Vibhushan
Dr.Raghunath Mashelkar

Rajkumar Hirani

Ronnie Screwvala

Rishi Darda

SushilKumar Shinde

Swapnil Joshi

Veena Patil

Dr.Vijay Darda

Ashok Chavan

Bhushan Gagrani

Dr Bhagwat Karad

Dr Pratit Samdani

Dr Vidya Yeravdekar

Pirojsha Godrej

Padma Shri
Rajdeep Sardesai

Ravi Shastri

Rishi Darda

Sanjay Gupta

Suresh Prabhu

Dr.Vijay Darda

Balasaheb Thorat

Devendra Fadnavis

Kailash Kher

Mangal Prabhat Lodha

Padma Vibhushan
Dr.Raghunath Mashelkar

Rishi Darda

Dr.Sanjay Oak

Sanjeev Mehta

Satya Raghavan

Schauna Chauhan

Dr.Sonal Parmar

Supriya Badwe

Dr.Vijay Darda

Padma Shri
Amit Maydeo

Deven Bharti

Ramesh Damani

Rishi Darda

Dr.Vijay Darda

Dhananjay Munde

Sudhir Mungantiwar

Rajiv Poddar

Namita Thaper

Mahesh Kale

Padma Shri
Popatrao Pawar

Padma Shri
Sonu Nigam

Padma Bhushan
Dr.Vijay Bhatkar


    Jury Members

    Winners

Dr.Abhinav Deshmukh (IPS)

(IPS
Promising)

Padma Shri
Akshay Kumar

(Social Influencer)

Chandrakant Kulkarni

(Theatre – Male)

Dhananjay Munde

(Powerful politician)

Dr. D.Y. Patil

(Lifetime Achievement)

Kareena Kapoor Khan

(Power Icon)

Dr. Milind V. Kirtane

(Medical)

P & G

(CSR)

Piyush Goyal

(Maharashtra Bhushan)

Poonam Mahajan

(Powerful politician)

Rahul Dhoot

(Business)

Rutuja Bagwe

(Theatre – Female)

Shantilal Muttha

(Public/Social Service)

Shreya Ghoshal

(Performing Arts)

Sumitra Bhave

(Director)

Dinkar Tukaram Kamble

(Social Service)

Akanksha Hagawane

(Sports)

G.Sreekanth

(IAS-Promising)

Ravi Shastri

(Maharashtra Abhiman Award)

Sonali Kulkarni

(Film – Female)

Sumeet Raghavan

(Film – Male)

Alia Bhatt

(Outstanding Entertainer
of the Year)

Ashok Hande

(Performing Arts)

Ashutosh Gowariker

(Film – Male)

MLA Bachchu Kadu

(Politics: Who fulfills
people’s expectations)

Devendra Fadnavis

(Political: Transformer
of the Year)

Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala

(Medical)

Feroz Khan

(Theatre – Male)

Mahesh Agrawal

(Infrastructure)

Nagraj Manjule

(Entertainment Trendsetter Award)

Nitin Joshi

(Global Torchbearer of the Year)

Ranbir Kapoor

(Outstanding Entertainer of the Year)

Rinku Rajguru

(Film-Female)

Pralhad Pai

(Samaj Bhushan)

Rajaram Bhapkar

(Public/Social Service)

Reshma Mane

(Sports)

Sachin Kurve

(Administration: Promising)

Sandip Pisalkar

(Art)

Satyanarayan Nandlal Nuwal

(Business)

Sukanya Kulkarni

(Theatre – Female)

Sudhir Mungantiwar

(Politics: Most influential
politician)

Ajoy Mehta

(Administration – State level)

Amruta Subhash

(Film – Female)

Padma Vibhushan
Asha Bhosle

(Lokmat Lifetime)

Dr.Deepak Pathak

(Science and Technology)

Padma Shri
Dr.Rajendra Badwe

(Maharashtra’s ‘MANBINDU’)

Mukta Barve

(Theatre)

Nita Ambani

(Lokmat Maharashtra Youth Icon)

Nitin Gadkari

(Politics: Most influential
politician)

Lalita Babar

(Sport)

MP Rajeev Satav

(Politics: Who fulfills
people’s expectations)

Razzaq Jabbar Khan Pathan

(Public/Social Service)

Ranveer Singh

Lokmat
Abhiman Award

Sandeep Patil

(Administration – Regional)

Satish Magar

(Infrastructure)

Shankar Mahadevan

(Performing Arts)

Dr.Anand Deshpande

(Business)

Padma Shri
Nana Patekar

(Film-Male)

Shashikant Dhotre

(Art)

Padma Vibhushan Amitabh Bachchan

(Maharashtra’s ‘MANBINDU’ Award)

Shaikh Nasir

(Entertainment)

Dr. Himmatrao Bawaskar

(Science and Technology)

Bandopati Khedkar

(Arts)

Padma Bhushan Dilip Kumar

(Lokmat Lifetime Achievement Award)

Hanmant Gaikwad

(Business)

Kishor Kadam

(Literature)

MP Raju Shetti

(Politics)

Paromita Goswami

(Public Service- Social Service)

Virdhawal Khade

(Sports)

Amir Khan

(Entertainment)

Bhgwan Rampure

(art)

Kalpana Joshi

(science & Technology)

Kavita Raut

(Sports)

R.R. Patil

(Politics)

Ravindra Smita Kolhe

(Public Service- Social Service)

Sanjay Gaikwad

(Business)

Padma Shri
Appasaheb Dharmadhikari

(Samaj Kalyan Jeevan Gaurav)

Padma Bhushan
Babasaheb Kalyani

(Business Influencer Awards)

N.Ambika

( IAS – Promising – Female)

Chandrakant Patil

(Powerful politician)

Chetna Sinha

(Public/Social Service)

Deepika Padukon

(Iconic Performer)

Noah Massil

(Global Torch bearer)

Dr Lokendra Singh

(Medical-Maharashtra)

Gauri Ingawale

(Theatre-Female)

Harsh Poddar

(Administration IPS
Promising – Male)

Kalyani Muley

(Film-Female)

Prashant Damle

(Theatre-Male)

Rahul Aware

(Sports-Male)

Dr.Rajesh Deshmukh

(Administration – IAS
Promising – Male)

Padma Bhushan
Ram Sutar

(Lifetime Achievement Award)

Ranjitsinh Disale

(Teacher)

Riteish Deshmukh

(Maharashtra Gaurav)

Rohit Shetty

(Entertainment Trendsetter)

Satyajeet Tambe

(Politics – Promising)

Shripad Banawali

(Medical-Mumbai)

Smriti Mandhana

(Sports-Female)

Subodh Bhave

(Film Male)

Tata Motors

(CSR)

Uddhav Thackeray

(Power icon)

Vicky Kaushal

(Pathbreaking Performer)

Vikram Gaikwad

(Performing Art)

Vishal-Agrawal

(Business Promising)

Ajinkya Rahane

(Sports)

Alka Patankar

(Medical)

Amol Kisan Hankare

(Teacher)

Astik Kumar Pandey

(Administration IAS-Maharashtra)

Avinash Arun

(Director Webseries)

Dr Aarti Singh

(Administration IPS Maharashtra)

Dr Rohidas Borse

(Medical)

Dr Sidheshwar Birajdar

(Medical)

Dr.Sudhakar Shinde

(Administration IRS – Promising)

Padma Shri
Dr.Tatyarao Lahane

(Medical)

Eknath Shinde

(politician)

Iqbal Singh Chahal

Administration IAS-Mumbai

Jafar Baba Sayyad

Social

Nilesh Lanke

(politician – Promising)

Om Raut

(Director – Movie)

Pradeep Rathod

(Business)

Rajaram Chaudhary

(Agriculture Innovator – BKT)

Sonu Sood

(Social)

Vandana Sunil Avasarmal

(Social)

Vijay Shekhar Sharma

(Business)

Yuvraj Dhamale

(Social)

Eknath Shinde

(Most Powerful politician)

Kiara Advani

(Actor – Female)

Ranveer Singh

(Actor Male)

Padma Bhushan N.Chandrasekaran

(Visionary Industrialist)

Devendra Fadnavis

(Most Powerful politician)

Peyush Bansal

(Entrepreneur)

Sujata Bajaj

(International Artist)

Dr Nandkumar & Aarti Palve

(Lokseva Samajseva)

Jitendra Awhad

(Impactful politician)

Dr Rahul Patil

(Politics)

Dr Vipin Itnakar

(IAS – Promising)

Ankit Goyal

(IPS – Promising)

Manoj Patil

(IPS – Promising)

Pavneet Kaur

(IAS – Promising)

Dr Mandar Nadkarni

(Medical-Mumbai)

Avantika Narale

(Sportsperson – Promising)

Aman Mehtani

(Industrialist – Promising)

Dr.Rhishikesh Thakre

(Medical – State)

Balaji Jadhav

(Teacher)

Finolex Industries LTD
(Mukul Madhav)

(CSR)

Mithilesh Desai

(BKT Innovator in Agriculture)

Dr.Amey Arun Beedkar

(Medical – Rest of Maharashtra)

Aniket Jadhav

(Sports)

Dr.Medha Samant

(Public Service – Social Service)

Vinay Kore

(Business)

Kumar Mangalam Birla

(Visionary Industrialist)

Manisha Khatri

(IAS-Promising)

Noorul Hasan

(IPS-Promising)

Dr.Pradnya Changede

(Medical-Mumbai)

Prasad Lad

(Politics – Promising)

Riteish Deshmukh

(Best Actor – VED)

Rohit Pawar

( Debutant Politician)

Shweta Mahale

( Debutant Politician)

Usha Dhere karpe

(Teacher)

Varun Dhawan

(Actor Male)

Girish Mahajan

(Politics Powerful)

Dr.Abhishek Mangeshikar

(Medical Mumbai)

Ranbir Kapoor

(Actor)

Isha Ambani

(Buisness Person)

Bhushan Gagrani

(Outstanding Bureaucrate)

Ojas Deotale

(Sports)

MLA Deepak Kesarkar

(Politics Influential)

MLA Atul Save

(Politics Influential)

Vivek Johnson

(IAS Promising)

Vishal chordia

(Business)

Dr.Sudhir Mehta

(Business)

Somay Munde

(IPS Promising)

Savita Nana Pawra

(Agriculture)

Dr.Meraj Quadri

(Medical Rest of Maharashtra)

Jaisingh Chavhan

(Social Entrepreneur)

Ananda Anemwad

(Teacher)

Harishchandra Sude

(Public Service Social Service)

MLA Kunal Patil

(Politics Promising)

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Winner Selection Process

1 Nomination

Competent Candidates from every strata and corner of Maharashtra across 14 categories with the details of their achievements and career have been recommended by our editorial board and listed as possible nominees.

2 Selection

Impact on society, Innovation in work & Proven capability for problem solving and overcoming challenge in difficult circumstances are the clear criteria on which the senior lokmat editor finalises five nominees.

3 Voting

Process of registering your vote for the Candidate of your choice by logging in to Lokmat.com. Each and every vote plays a crucial role in the selection of the winners at the final stage.

4 Jury

Experienced and respected professionals from every award category are part of the Eminent jury. Award winners in all the categories will be chosen only after detailed discussion deliberation amongst the jury members.