Ratnakar Ramkrushna Matkari (born 1938) is a Marathi writer, a movie and play producer/director, and a self-taught artist from Maharashtra, India.Matkari was born on 17 November 1938 in Mumbai.
After earning a degree in economics from Mumbai University in 1958, he worked at the Bank of India for the next twenty years.
Since 1978, he has devoted his time exclusively to writing and production/direction of movies and plays.