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Padmini was born to a middle-class Maharashtrian family on 1 Nov 1965. Her father was a classical singer and her mother had a job working for the airlines. Padmini Kolhapure was a famous Hindi film heroine in the 1980s.Padmini Kolhapure is one of the finest actress India has produced. Beginning her career as a child actress in Dev Anand’s ‘Ishk Ishk Ishk’ and Raj Kapoor’s ‘Satyam Shivam Sundram’ she went on to become a rage in the Eighties.
Padmini first faced the camera for “Ek Khilari Bawan Pattey” ( a humble film made in 1970 during Vinod Khanna’s pre-fame days) in which she doubled up for a child artiste who fell sick. “My neighbour was filmmaker B.S.Thapa and he called me for the role.”
When she recorded ‘Yaadon ki baaraat…’, the title-song of the Nasir Husain blockbuster with Lata Mangeshkar and sister Shivangi, the sisters’ voices went in a joint chorus on three child artistes, one of whom was Aamir Khan.
Asha Bhosle introduced Padmini to Dev Anand at the recording of “Ishq Ishq Ishq” as her bhatiji (niece) who could also act and she ended up playing the sixth sister in the film. This led to other films, such as “Dreamgirl”(1978), “Zindagi”, “Saajan Bina Suhagan” (1978), etc.
She was introduced in the film ‘Thodi Si Bewafai’ with Rajesh Khanna and Shabaza Azmi as a grown up actress. From then on she worked in many more films and became one of the leading ladies of the industry. Some of her other good films include ‘Zamane Ko Dikhana Hain’, ‘Prem Rog’, ‘Vidhata’, ‘Souten’, ‘Who Saat Din’, ‘Pyar Jhukta Nahin’, ‘Pyar Kiya Hain Pyar Karenge’ and ‘Souten Ki Beti’. Her co-stars in these films were Rishi Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Rajesh Khanna, Anil Kapoor and Mithun Chakraborty.
She fell in love with producer Pradeep Sharma alias Tutu Sharma after he cast her in Aisa Pyar Kahan. They married and she retired from films at the tender age of 21 (where girls today enter at that age).She has a son named Priyank.. After her son grew up, she returned to acting in 2004, such as for the Marathi film Manthan and Chimnee Pakhra which was a huge hit and earned her a Screen award in the Best actress category (marathi). She has also acted in new films such as Eight (film).
She was back in controversy (after the much controversial peck on the cheek to Prince Charles during his first visit to India in 1979) … to play the role of Tulsi Virani in Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi which was much in the news after Smriti Irani left but then the role was offered to Gautami Kapoor. She is currently working on “Mera Bachpan” with Helen “Daughter” with Ayub Khan.(2008) She has also acted on stage her debuted being “Kaash” followed by “Abhi to mein jawan hoon”,and currently working on “Aasman se gire khajoor pe atke” with her Brother in law Shakti Kapoor.
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