Ashok Saraf (Marathi: अशोक सराफ) (born 4 June 1947) is an Indian film and stage actor and comedian. He has appeared in many Marathi movies and stage plays in lead roles and in Hindi movies and TV serials in supporting roles. He is affectionately known as 'MAMA' in entire Marathi film industry means closer human being. Most of Marathi actors & actress called him as Samrat ashoka of marathi film industry.
In the 1980s and 90s, Saraf was considered as one of the two Marathi comedy superstars along with actor Laxmikant Berde.
His brand of comedy has been emulated by many actors and serves as a benchmark for new upcoming comedy actors in Marathi cinema.
Saraf started his career in Marathi cinema since the late 1960s. In the 1970s, he was frequently seen in supporting comic roles in Marathi movies with leading actors like Dada Kondke, Nilu Phule, Ravindra Mahajani, Avinash Masurekar, Raja Gosavi and others. His pairing with actress Ranjana Deshmukh became very popular with Marathi movie fans.
But from the early 1980s, Saraf started getting cast as the leading hero in Marathi films. The combination of Ashok Saraf, Laxmikant Berde, Sachin Pilgaonkar and Mahesh Kothare created the 'comedy films wave' in Marathi cinema from 1985 that lasted for more than a decade.
His superhit Marathi films as the lead hero include 'Ek Daav Bhutacha', 'Dhoom Dhadaka', 'Gammat Jammat', 'Ashi hi Banava Banavi' and 'Vazir'
Saraf has also starred in television serials like Yeh Choti Badi Baatein and Hum Paanch (as Anand Mathur).
In Bollywood, he is best remembered for the comic "Munshiji" in Rakesh Roshan's 1995 action thriller Karan Arjun, in Yes Boss as Shahrukh Khan's colleague and in Singham as head constable.
In the Marathi film industry, he is popularly known as Mama (maternal uncle).
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