(An English travel guide to less conventional destinations...)
An English travel guide to less conventional destinations in Maharashtra, including lakes, forts, and hill stations. Popular Prakashan describes Gunaji as a travel writer, photographer, actor, and television travel-show host.
https://popularprakashan.com/en/product/a-travel-guide-offbeat-tracks-in-maharashtra-milind-gunaji/
2003
(An English travel book about lesser-known places in Mahar...)
An English travel book about lesser-known places in Maharashtra. The publisher describes Gunaji's continuing work as a traveler and writer and records a 2010 publication edition.
https://popularprakashan.com/en/product/mystical-magical-m-a-h-a-r-a-s-h-t-r-a/
2009
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Milind Gunaji is associated with Mumbai, Maharashtra, a major center of India's Hindi-language film and television industries and an important base for Marathi cultural production. His public career has combined screen performance with travel writing, photography, modeling, and advocacy for Maharashtra's natural and historical heritage.
Gunaji is described as a qualified mechanical engineer. His later work connected technical training with careers in modeling, acting, television presentation, travel writing, and photography.
Gunaji began his screen career in the early 1990s, appearing in films including Papeeha and Droh Kaal. He attracted broad attention as Inspector Indrajeet Saxena in the 1996 Hindi thriller Fareb and subsequently played prominent supporting and antagonist roles in Hindi and Marathi productions such as Virasat, Godmother, Devdas, LOC Kargil, Aan: Men at Work, and Panipat. He also appeared in Tamil and Telugu cinema, including Aalavandhan and Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum.
His television work included acting roles in series such as Byomkesh Bakshi, CID, Dharti Ka Veer Yodha Prithviraj Chauhan, Kulvadhu, Veer Shivaji, Hum Ne Li Hai... Shapath, and Everest. As a presenter, he hosted the Marathi travel program Bhatkanti and was associated with Discover Maharashtra. These programs focused on travel, forts, landscapes, and cultural heritage in Maharashtra, a western Indian state whose historical sites include the hill forts associated with the Maratha period.
Gunaji also worked as a model and wrote travel material for Marathi publications, including a weekly column associated with Lokprabha. He served as a brand ambassador for the Government of Maharashtra's forest and wildlife initiatives and for Mahabaleshwar, a hill station in the Western Ghats. In 2009 he was named brand ambassador for the Novel Institute Group's NIBR College of Hotel Management and was also associated with Intiamatkat Tours.
His photography has included solo exhibitions in venues such as Balgandharva in Pune, Kalidas Hall in Nashik, and Prabodhankar Thackeray Hall in Vile Parle. His professional activities therefore extend across commercial cinema, regional television, tourism communication, environmental advocacy, travel publishing, and visual documentation of Maharashtra.
Gunaji established a long-running public career across Hindi and Marathi cinema, television presentation, modeling, travel writing, and photography, with more than six decades of screen and media credits reported in biographical accounts.
His travel programs and books brought attention to lesser-known landscapes, forts, hill stations, and heritage sites in Maharashtra.
He held ambassadorial roles connected with Maharashtra's forests, wildlife, tourism, Mahabaleshwar, and hotel-management education.
He presented solo photography exhibitions in Pune, Nashik, and Vile Parle, extending his documentation of Maharashtra beyond television and books.
(A Marathi literary work combining words, music, and refle...)
2011Hawai Mulukhgiri
(A travel book using aerial views and photography to prese...)
2013(A Marathi travel book associated with Gunaji's interest i...)
2001(An English travel guide to less conventional destinations...)
2003(A later edition or related English presentation of Gunaji...)
2009(Gunaji's first published book, a Marathi travel work comp...)
1998Gad Killyanchi Bhatkanti
(A Marathi travel work centered on forts and historic land...)
2011Chanderi Bhatkanti
(A later travel work continuing Gunaji's exploration of Ma...)
2005Chala Mazya Govyala
(A travel book focused on Goa and its landscapes and cultu...)
2003Gudha Ramya Maharashtra
(A travel book about the hidden and scenic aspects of Maha...)
2007(An English travel book about lesser-known places in Mahar...)
2009Meri Avismarniya Yatra
(A travel book documenting Gunaji's journeys and experiences.)
2011Gunaji's public work reflects a sustained interest in travel, regional heritage, landscape conservation, poetry, music, and the documentation of lesser-known places. His books and television programs present Maharashtra not only as a destination but also as a cultural and historical landscape, while his environmental ambassadorial work connects tourism with the preservation of forests and wildlife.
Travel, trekking, photography, poetry, music, Maharashtra's forts and landscapes, and environmental conservation.
Gunaji has released and appeared in music projects involving Marathi poetry and songs. His album Man Pakhrache Hoi drew on his poetic writing, and Aika Dajiba was reported to have achieved a platinum disc.
Gunaji is married to Rani Gunaji. Their son, Abhishek Gunaji, is an information-technology engineer who has also worked in filmmaking and directed the short film Chhal. Abhishek married Radha Patil in December 2021.
