Mohan Gokhale was passionate about theatre since his childhood and had won many awards for the same during his college days and even at the state level.
He founded the Theatre Academy at Pune and directed Nana Patekar's first Marathi play, Bhau Murarrao, which was written by Vijay Tendulkar.
[2] Gokhale is best remembered for the popular comedy TV series, Mr. Yogi (1989), where he played the lead role of Yogesh Patel, an NRI from the United States who comes to India to get married and in the process meets 12 girls from 12 sun signs.
[1] He began acting in films with the Marathi movie Maaficha Sakshidar, which was directed by Rajdutt and based on Pune's Joshi-Abhyankar serial murders.
He was working on Kamal Haasan's Hey Ram at the time,[6] along with the TV shows Alpaviram, Zanjeerein and Aashirvad.