He has been there in this film industry for almost 40 years. Earlier, as an assistant to famous editing master G.G.Mayekar , Mr. V.N. Mayekar started independent work as a film editor with B.R. Films ‘Chotisi Baat’ directed by Basu Chatterjee. The film became a hit and V.N.Mayekar established himself in this film industry. Till now, he has done editing for 80 films and has won 8 awards, including two Filmfare awards for the films ‘Ghatak’ and ‘Ghayal’, one Zee award for the film ‘Legend of Bhagat Singh’ and IIFA award for ‘Vastav’. ‘
Mr.V.N.Mayekar is best known for his editing work in films like ‘Damini’,’Astitva’,’Pukar’,’Vivah’, ‘Shaukeen’,’Hathyar’, ‘Andaz Apna Apna’, ‘Fida’, ‘apne Paraye’ ,’Pitaah’ and ‘Khakee’. Recently, he edited a film ‘Toh Baat Pakki’ for director kedar Shinde in Hindi. Impressed by his master work, kedar has given the editing work of his forthcoming Marathi film ‘Shrimant Damodar Pant’ to him. And, Mr. Mayekar has done justice to his editing job, which was evident from the first look of the film, released recently. Having worked with well known film makers like Basu Chetterjee, Raj Kumar Santoshi and others, he is certainly a master in editing. Besides doing some Marathi films, he has also directed his own film ‘Pasant Aahe Mulgi’ in late eighties with Nitish Bharadwaj, Varsha Usgaonkar and Prashant Damle.
Magzmumbai met Mr. V.N.Mayekar during the release of first look of this film. He was more than happy to share his experiences in this industry. “Adapting the new editing skills with the changing time was more challenging; but I learned the techniques on Computer, as I had to survive in this industry,” he said. When all those editing experts said good bye to their job, after editing began on computers; Mr. Mayekar worked hard to make his services available to the film industry. “There are some advantages, with the new technology, as you get the choice of showing 2- 3 scenes differently edited by you, to the director. If you are provided with more content, it becomes easier to select the scenes for editing,” says Mr. Mayekar.