Biography of Urmila Matondkar

Urmila Matondkar (born on February 4, 1973 in Mumbai, India) is a Bollywood actress.

She started her career as a child artist; perhaps the best known of her early movies is the 1983 Masoom. Her first big hit was the 1995 Rangeela, in which she played a star-struck dancer. She was nominated for a Filmfare Best Actress Award for her work in Rangeela. This was her first film for director Ram Gopal Varma—but not her last. She has starred in many subsequent RGV pictures, such as Daud, Satya, Kaun, Mast, Jungle, and Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya.

Her biggest hits since Rangeela have been Judaai and Bhoot. She also turned in a strong dramatic performance in Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya in 2001, for which she was nominated to the Filmfare Best Villain Award.

Urmila is an outstanding dancer and has been a featured performer in many Bollywood “item numbers”, in which a star gives a cameo performance in a song-and-dance number. Perhaps her best-known item number is the “Chamma Chamma” sequence from the 1998 China Gate. A brief Westernized version of Chamma Chamma appeared in Baz Luhrman’s 2001 film musical, Moulin Rouge—minus Urmila.