Charandas Chor is a 2017 Marathi-language Drama motion picture written by Shyam Maheshwari, Avinash Singh and Shyam Benegal & Shama Zaidi. The movie is directed by Shyam Maheshwari and Shyam Benegal and produced by Children's Film Society Of India. It's a journey of a thief who is on the run and finds some ......what else, thieves!!. It's a slice of life film spruced with layers of humour through our cute, naïve guy Charan Chandrakant ....is he that naïve? Charan is an apprentice in films and in turn of events he gets a trunk of 2cr original cash which he runs away with. From here, Charan embarks on a journey with 2cr booty, but his problem is, he wants to tell it all about the trunk and also wants to hide it all....he wants to own the trunk and disown the repercussions....confusing!!. But as Isaac Newton rightly said so- 'Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things'...We will find out the truth!!. Charandas chor stars Smita Patil in the title role along with an ensemble cast including Lalu Ram, Sunder, Adesh Aware, Anuya Baiche, Abhay Murlidhar Chavan and Sachin Khandekar. The movie is based on Rajasthani folk tale by Vijaydan Detha. The music was composed by Nand Kishore Mittal. The film has a running time of 156 min.

A drama film directed by Shyam Maheshwari, starring Adesh Aware in the lead role.