He is best known for his critically acclaimed Konkani films, Paltadacho Munis and Baga Beach.

[2] Shetgaonkar's career began as an assistant director and screenplay writer in Mumbai.

His first film was Eka Sagar Kinaree (A Seaside Story), which won him a Golden Conch in the Best Fiction category at the Mumbai International Film Festival.

Set in Goa, the film is about a recently widowed forest ranger in a dwindling forest, who strikes up an unlikely relationship with a woman he finds lost and alone in the woods.

[5] After the awards, the Goa Legislative Assembly passed a resolution congratulating him for making the film about "a topic which needed much attention", and called it an "eye opener on the issues related to children on our beaches.