Usha Jadhav bagged the Best Actor award for Mai Ghat: Crime No 103/2005 at the NYC South Asian Film Festival. Director Ananth Narayan Mahadevan was also honoured. The Marathi film is based on a true story of a mother's 10-year fight for justice after her son was tortured and killed by the police.

Jadhav, who bagged the National Film Award for Best Actress for the Marathi film Dhag (2012), attended the awards ceremony in New York over the weekend. The Bhootnath Returns (2014) actor has been travelling with the film on the festival circuit.