Career
He is best known for his role as Shree on the popular daily soap Honar Sun Maine Hya Gharchi. Ketkar did Masters of Engineering Management from Sydney, Australia. He is also a swimmer and worked as duty manager at Olympic gold-medalist Ian Thorpe"s swimming school in Australia.
While in Sydney, he took part in Marathi plays and musical programs organized by cultural groups.
Upon completing his education and on returning to India, he decided to indulge in performing arts, which had been only his hobby up till then He joined "Sudarshan Rangamanch", a theatre group in Pune where he landed his first role in the play, which was directed by Pramod Kale and written by Sachin Kundalkar.
He then auditioned for Marathi television shows and debuted as Kailash on ETV Marathi"s daily soap Kalay Tasmay Namah, where he played grandson of Vikram Gokhale. He also did a negative character of Aniket Gaydhani in the serial Swapnanchya Palikadale that aired on Star Pravah.
Ketkar"s biggest break came in 2013 with the Zee Marathi"s daily soap Honar Sun Maine Hya Gharchi where his lead role as Shreerang "Shree" Gokhale made him popular.
The show grabbed 11 awards in various categories. In 2015, the show"s lead characters Shree and Janhavi started trending on social networks and Whatsapp as Janhavi"s famous dialogue in the show "Kahihi ha Shri", which she regularly repeats, became popular. In 2015, his first single "Yaara" was released by Sagarika Musics.
The romantic-single is co-sung by Deepika Jog and the video also features Ketkar.