Acharya Pralhad Keshav Atre

Prahlād Keshav Atre, popularly known as Āchārya Atre, was a multi-faceted Indian figure. He was a Marathi writer, a poet, an educationist, a newspaper founder–editor of Maratha, a political leader, a movie producer–director–script writer and above all, a noted orator.
His Marathi film, Shyamchi Aai won the 1954 National Film Award for Best Film.
He was a principal of a high school in his teaching career of 20 years.
He introduced parodistic poetry to Marathi language under the pseudonym Keshav Kumār. His book, Jhenduchi Phule, is a collection of his parodistic poems. Atre wrote seven plays. His comedy-play, Moruchi Mavshi was later adapted into Hindi film, Aunty No. 1 (1998), starring Govinda and Raveena Tandon.
Atre had studied Urdu language in depth. He while writing under the pseudonym Maulana Allauddin Khilji, ridiculed the predilection of the Marathi poets of those times of using not easily understood Sanskrit words and using bigger than life comparisons.
Atre was an important political leader of his times in Maharashtra, and he worked vigorously in the Sanyukta Mahārāshtra Āndolan. He possessed extraordinary oratory skills, humor being a captivating feature of his speeches.