Shantanu Anant Tambe is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter and producer.

He is the son of Anant Ramji Tambe, a poet from Maharashtra.

Shantanu is from a Marathi family where his father Anant Ramji Tambe is a poet in Maharashtra.

[citation needed] In early 1998, with the self-learning on-set experience, Shantanu joined Tijori Films, a film production company founded by Deepak Tijori, where he assisted directors including Anant Mahadevan, Arun Frank, Manish Khandelwal, Vikram Bhatt, and others.

After 11 years of experience at Tijori Films, Shantanu independently directed a Marathi TV series Baba - Ek Atoot Naate... produced by Trikuta Films, which was telecasted in 2009 on Mi Marathi channel's exclusive section, Ek Soneri Paan.