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| honorific_prefix = '''[[Āchārya]]'''
| name = Prahlad Keshav Atre
| image = PralhadKeshavAtreImg.jpg
| birth_date = 13 August 1898
| birth_place = [[Kodit Khurd]], [[Pune district]], Maharashtra
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1969|6|13|1898|8|13}}
| death_place = [[Mumbai]], Maharashtra, India
| occupation = {{hlist|Politician|Poet|Writer}}
| other_names = [[Honorary titles of Indian leaders|Acharya]] Atre
| children =
| education = Bachelor of Arts
| alma_mater = [[University of Pune]]<br/>[[University of London]]
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'''Prahlad Keshav Atre''' ({{audio|Ma-PK Atre.ogg|pronunciation}}) (13 August 1898 – 13 June 1969), popularly known as '''Āchārya Atre''', was a prominent [[Marathi language|Marathi]] writer, poet, educationist, founder–editor of ''Maratha'' (a Marathi language newspaper), and above all, a noted orator.

==Biography==
===Early life===
Acharya Atre was born on 13 August 1898 in a [[Deshastha Brahmin]]<ref name="iwi74">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AsU7R69gqDIC|title=The Illustrated Weekly of India, Volume 95|publisher=Bennett, Coleman & Company, Limited, at the Times of India Press|page=31|year=1974|quote=Marathi literature is strewn with Deshastha writers. Some of the luminaries are B. S. Murdhekar, the neo classical poet and critic; the popular dramatists Acharya P. K. Atre, V.V.Shirwadkar; the poet and story writer G.D.Madgulkar popularly known as the "Modern Walmiki" of Maharashtra, Sahitya Akademi Award winners G. T. Deshpande, Laxmanshastri Joshi, S. N. Banhatti, V. K. Gokak and Mugali all belong to this community.}}</ref> family of Kodit Khurd, a village near Saswad in [[Pune district]]. His father was a [[clerk]] and also a secretary of Saswad Municipality for a brief period and his uncle was teacher at MES Waghire High School Saswad. He completed his primary and High School education from MES Waghire High School, Saswad. He matriculated from [[Fergusson college]] in 1919. He completed Bachelor of Arts from [[University of Pune]]. After graduation Atre took up a career as a school teacher. Atre did his T. D. (teacher's diploma) from the [[University of London]] in 1928.<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedic dictionary of Marathi literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nrR9D_ydGwoC|editor=Sunita Deshpande|author=Jaquir Iqbal|publisher=Global Vision Publishing House|access-date=1 October 2009|pages=37–38|isbn = 9788182202214|date = October 2009}}</ref> Before returning to [[India]] he studied [[Experimental Psychology]] under [[Cyril Burt]] and taught at [[Harrow, London|Harrow]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SLkABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA47|title=Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema|author1=Ashish Rajadhyaksha|author2=Paul Willemen|publisher=Routledge|access-date=10 July 2014|page=47|isbn=9781135943189|date=10 July 2014}}</ref>

==Film and theatre career==
His Marathi film, ''[[Shyamchi Aai (film)|Shyamchi Aai]]'' won the 1954 [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film]].<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0040899/awards Awards] [[IMDb]]</ref> Atre wrote seven plays; some of them had a humorous theme while others, a serious one. All of them received high public acclaim. His comedy-play, ''[[Moruchi Mavshi]]'' was later adapted into [[Hindi film]], ''Aunty No. 1'' (1998), starring [[Govinda (actor)|Govinda]] and [[Raveena Tandon]].
His movie ''Mahatma Phule'' (1955) received the ''President's Silver Medal''.

==Writing and Publishing==
Atre was the founder–editor of four Marathi newspapers. Two of them had a short life. But the other two, ''Maratha'' and ''(Weekly) Navayug'', ran for many years with a large circulation.

== Political career ==
* Member of [[Sanyukta Maharashtra Samiti]] during 1956–60. He was arrested in 1956 under the Preventive Detention Act for his agitation.
* Member of [[Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha]] from Dadar constituency (18) 1962–1967<ref>{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_Maharastra_1962.pdf |title=STATISTICAL REPORT ON – GENERAL ELECTION, 1962 – TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MAHARASHTR |access-date=7 June 2012}}</ref>

However his ambition of becoming a member of the Indian Parliament could not be fulfilled as he lost these elections.

== Important works ==

===Plays===
* Sāshtāng Namaskār (1935)
* Gharābāher (1934)
* Bhramāchā Bhopalā (1935)
* Udyāchā Sansār (1936)
* Lagnāchi Bedi (1936)
* [[Moruchi Mavshi|Moruchi Māwashi]] (1947) a Marathi comedy play
* [[To Mi Navhech]] (1962)

===Novels, Biographies, and Essays===
* Chāngunā (1954)
* Battāshi Wa Itar Kathā (1954)
* Mahātmā Jyotibā Phule (1958)
* Suryāsta (1964) (On the life of [[Jawaharlal Nehru]])
* Samādhiwaril Ashru (1956)
* Kelyāne Deshātan (1961)
* Atre Uwāch (1937)
* Lalit Wāngmaya (1944)
* Hashā Āni Tālyā (1958)
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* Mi Kasā Jhālo (1953)

===Movies===
* [[Brahmachari (1938 film)|Brahmachari]] (1938)
*[[Shyamchi Aai (film)|Shyāmchi Aai]] (1953)
* Premveer (Script writer)
* Dharmveer (Script writer)
* Brandichi Bātali (Script writer)
* Paayaachi Daasi (Hindi: Charanon Ki Daasi). Producer.
* Mahātmā Phule
* Parinde (Hindi, Director under name of Principal Atre) (1945)

===Journalism===
* Founder/Editor of (weekly) ''Sāptāhik Navyug'' (1940–1962) and ''Tukārām'' (1954)
* Evening newspaper ''Jai Hind'' (1948)
* Daily ''Marāthā'' (1956 – Till the end)

== Honors ==
* President of 38th ''Natya Sammelan'' at [[Belgaon]] (1955)
* President of 10th ''Maharashatra Patrakar Sammelan'' (1950)
* President of ''Regional Sahitya Sammelan'' at [[Baroda]], [[Indore]] and [[Gwalior]]
* In his honor there is an ''Acharya atre bhavan'' in Saswad

== Awards ==

;[[National Film Awards]] (India)
* [[1st National Film Awards]] (1953) – [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film|President's Gold Medal for the All India Best Feature Film]] – [[Shyamchi Aai (film)|Shyamchi Aai]]<ref name="1stawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/1st_nff_1954.pdf|title=1st National Film Awards|publisher=[[Directorate of Film Festivals]]|access-date=21 August 2011}}</ref>
* [[2nd National Film Awards]] (1954) – [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Marathi|President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in Marathi]] – [[Mahatma Phule (film)|Mahatma Phule]]<ref name="2ndawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/2nd_nff_1955.pdf|title=2nd National Film Awards|publisher=[[Directorate of Film Festivals]]|access-date=10 March 2012}}</ref>

== References ==
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* ''Prahlad Keshav Atre'', by A. N. Pednekar. Sahitya Akademi Publications. {{ISBN|81-260-1570-5}}.

== External links ==
* {{IMDb name|0040899}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111006163347/http://www.manase.org/en/maharashtra.php?mid=68&smid=23&pmid=8&id=782 Prahlad Keshav Atre]
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