Padmini Kolhapure

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Padmini Kolhapure was a famous Hindi film heroine in the 1980s.

Padmini was born to a middle-class Maharashtrian family in 1965. Her father was a classical singer and her mother had a job working for the airlines. Her father's first cousins are singers Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle, and as a child was in the chorus for some of their songs. It was Asha Bhosle who suggested Padmini's name to Dev Anand who was looking for a child actress for a small role in Ishq Ishq Ishq (1975). He cast the seven-year old child, and soon she was cast in other child roles, such as Dreamgirl (1978), Zingagi, Saajan Bina Suhagan (1978). Her mother quit her airlines job to be a full-time chaperone as Padmini picked up more roles. Her most famous child role was playing Zeenat Aman as a child in Raj Kapoor's film Satyam Shivam Sundaram (1977). The memorable song "yashomati maiye se" was picturized on her, with playback singing done none other than her relative Lata Mangeshkar. The success of that song led to her most controversial role in Insaaf ka tarazu (1980), remake of the American film Lipstick (1976), where she played the rape victim that was originally played by Mariel Hemingway. She became a household name and earned the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award. She also graduated to heroine roles at the tender age of seventeen in Nasir Hussain's Zamane Ko Dikhana Hai opposite Rishi Kapoor. The film flopped, but she reunited with Rishi Kapoor for his father Raj Kapoor's film Prem Rog (1982). The film earned her a Filmfare Best Actress Award. She also won a special acting award for Ahista Ahista (1982). She was known for her professionalism and diligence. She even worked when she had a fever on Do Dilon ki Dastaan. She had more box office hits, such as Vidhaata (1982) and Souten (1983). She had a huge hit with Pyar Jhukta Nahin (1985) with Mithun Chakravorthy, and they were paired together in several more films. She fell in love with producer Tutu Sharma after he cast her in Aisa Pyar Kahan. They married and she retired from films at the tender age of 22. She has a son with him named Priyank.^[1].