for Best Actress in a Commercial Play. Barve's next release was Sawar Re (2007), in which she played Mukta. Barve's next commercial play was Jitendra Patil's debut play Kabaddi Kabaddi, in which she played a girl who wants to be a Kabaddi champion like her ostracised uncle, but her father (played by Vinay Apte) wants her to settle down like his other daughters in the United States. For her work in the play Kabaddi Kabaddi, she was given the award for Best Actress in a Commercial Play at the Zee Gaurav Puraskar (2008), Maharashtra Times Awards (2007) and Maharashtra State Film Awards (2007). 2008-2011: Jogwa and success In 2008, Barve made a special appearance in the film De Dhakka and played a cameo role of Parimal Bhosle in the Hindi film Saas Bahu Aur Sensex. Saas Bahu Aur Sensex grossed domestically. In 2009, Barve featured in the Ashok Saraf's producer debut Ek Daav Dhobi Pachhad (2009), a comedy romance in the role of Sulakshana, who has feelings for her father's enemy's son and lies to her father that she is pregnant in order to visit the U.S. Her next appearance was in Gajendra Ahire's film Sumbaran (2009), in which she played a Dhangar girl named Kalyani. Barve's final appearance of 2010 was opposite Upendra Limaye in the National Award winning film Jogwa, dealing with religious superstitions in rural India. She played Suli, a Jogtin, a happy and innocent girl who is forced into a lifetime of servitude to the local deity, who enters a relationship with Tayappa, a forced eunuch. To prepare for the role, Barve studied the life of a Jogtin through photographs and by observing day-to-day rural behaviour. For this portrayal, Barve won the awards for Best Actress at Maharashtra State Film Awards (2009) and at Marathi International Film and Theatre Awards (2010). In 2009, Barve was honoured by the Sangeet Natak Akademi with the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for achievement in Marathi theatre. Barve's next release was the Bollywood film Thanks Maa (2010); she played a cameo role of Lakshmi, a prostitute. Taran Adarsh of entertainment portal of Bollywood Hungama wrote of her performance, "Mukta Barve; effective". Thanks Maa grossed domestically. In 2010, Barve also starred in Satish Rajwade's romantic film Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai, opposite Swwapnil Joshi. Her character was a girl based in Mumbai, going to Pune and lands up meeting Joshi's character. The chemistry between Barve