PADMINI KOLHAPURE ,HINDI ACTRESS
BORN 1965 NOVEMBER 1
Padmini Kolhapure created a sensation by giving a nude scene in this film, people had given her the status of an adult actress.
Actress Padmini Kolhapure has worked in many hit films during her career in the 70s and 80s.Padmini Kolhapure created a sensation by giving a nude scene in this film, people had given her the status of an adult actress.
Padmini created a sensation by giving a nude scene in the 1980 film 'Ghahrai'. So much so that Padmini also gave a long rape scene in the film 'Insaaf Ka Taraju' which came out in the same year. After which people gave the title of Padmini Kolhapure Adult Actress. Both these films proved to be hits at the box office. Seeing the success of these films, Padmini Kolhapure was very happy.
But after a few days he realized that doing such films would not be able to be successful in the industry for long. The perception in the minds of people about Padmini was changing. When Padmini realized this, she started avoiding doing such scenes. However, directors keep coming to him with such films continuously. But she went on turning down every film.
Full name: Padmini Kolhapure
Nickname: Padmini
Birth date: November 1, 1965
Birth place: Mumbai, India
Occupation: Actress
Years active: 1976-present
Spouse (s): Pradeep Sharma
Religion: Hinduism
Zodiac sign: Scorpio
Padmini Kolhapure is an Indian actress and singer who mainly appears in Hindi films. She is one of the most popular actresses of Indian showbiz industry. The actress has huge fans in her country as well as abroad and got them through her excellent acting performances. She has won several awards for showing off her mind blowing performances in her career.
Padmini Kolhapure Early Life:
Padmini Kolhapure was born on November 1, 1965, in Mumbai, India. Her father Pandharinath Kolhapure is a professional musician while her mother Anupama Kolhapure is a homemaker. She is second among her three sisters. Her elder sister Shivangi Kapoor, wife of actor Shakti Kapoor is the former actress and mother of actor Siddharth Kapoor as well as actress Shraddha Kapoor. Her younger sister Tejaswini Kolhapure is also an actress of India.
Padmini Kolhapure Career:
Padmini Kolhapure made her film debut with director Ravi Tandon’s movie ‘Zindagi’ where she played as a child role along with Mala Sinha, Sanjeev Kumar and Vinod Mehra in 1976. Then she also starred as a child actress in several popular movies through which she came into limelight.
In 1980, Padmini acted as a leading role in the movie ‘Insaaf Ka Tarazu’ with Raj Babbar and Deepak Parashar where her performances were appreciated by the cinema critics and audiences. After that, the talented actress presented many super hit movies to her fans and became the most popular actress of 1980s.
After 2000, Padmini appeared in several movies including ‘Souten: TheOther Woman’, ‘Karmayogi’ and ‘Phata Poster Nikla Hero’. She also starred in two Marathi films ‘Chimani Padosan’ and ‘Manthan’ in which she showed off her extraordinary performances. The famous actress Padmini acted almost 80 films in her long acting career most of which became super hit at the box office.
The multi-talented actress Padmini Kolhapure has been nominated for several film awards for showing off her exceptional performances where she won two prestigious awards ‘Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award’ in 1980 and ‘Filmfare Best Actress Award’ in 1982.
Personal Life:
The charming actress Padmini Kolhapure married to Pradeep Sharma known as Tutu Sharma is a producer. The couple has a son named Priyank. Currently, she is living with her family in Mumbai.
Padmini Kolhapure Height Weight and Body Measurement:
Height: 5 feet 3 inches
Weight: 62kg
Bra size: 36B
Waist Size: 28 inches
Hip Size: 37 inches
Body measurement: 36-28-37 inches
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Black
Body Shape: Rectangle
Shoe size: 7
Interview: Padmini Kolhapure on her super star days, and more
By Nidhi Kumari; Interview by Parthiv N. Parekh Email By Nidhi Kumari; Interview by Parthiv N. Parekh
June 2018
Interview: Padmini Kolhapure on her super star days, and more
In town for her comedy play, Baap Ka Baap, this superstar of yesteryear took time to talk to us about her return to acting after years of sabbatical, how she could just as well have been a playback singer, and of course about the time of her massive hit, Prem Rog.
My first memory of watching actress Padmini Kolhapure goes back to 1982 where she starred opposite Rishi Kapoor in Raj Kapoor’s directorial film Prem Rog. The song in legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar’s melodious voice—"Yeh Galiyan Yeh Chaubara Yahan Aana Na Dobara, Ab Hum To Bhaye Pardesi, Ke Tera Yahan Koi Nahi"—had Manorama, played by Padmini Kolhapure, grooving with grace and childlike innocence, leaving a lasting impression even today.
Padmini pulled off with finesse the transition of Manorama from a young, bubbly, stubborn girl brimming with gullibility, to becoming a mature, sorted woman, denouncing the vibrant colors of life and embracing white as a widow. We all could feel Manorama’s heart-wrenching pain and suffering. She was not allowed to taste the joys of life in a society where widows were stigmatized and forced into a life of austerity.
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(Left) Receiving Filmfare’s Best Actress Award for her role in Prem Rog.
Prem Rog became one of the biggest blockbuster hits of 1982 both critically and commercially. It earned her Filmfare’s Best Actress Award and launched her into stardom.
Born to a typical Maharashtrian family in 1975, to veteran classical singer Pandit Pandharinath Kolhapure and mother Anupama who worked in the airline industry, Padmini ventured into acting on the recommendation of her aunt, the legendary singer Asha Bhosle. Asha Taai recommended this girl full of talent to another legend, Dev Anand, who cast her as a child artist in his 1975 film Ishq Ishq.
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Padmini, proving her mettle early in life, was a child star in super hits like Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram (right) and Insaaf Ka Tarazu.
This was just a beginning for this little girl with big dreams to become a star. Ishq Ishq paved the way for films like Dream Girl, Zindagi, Saajan Bina Suhagan, where Padmini appeared as a child artist. Her most popular role as a child till date remains 1977 Raj Kapoor’s directorial, Satyam Shivam Sundaram, where she played the little version of Zeenat Aman.
She worked with Zeenat Aman again in Insaf Ka Tarazu that won her Filmfare’s best supporting actress in 1980. Insaf Ka Tarazu created quite a stir as it was ahead of its time with its touchy subject of a rape victim seeking justice.
The young actress was seen as a heroine at an age as young as 15 with Nassir Hussein’s Zamaane Ko Dikhana Hai opposite Rishi Kapoor. Though the film flopped, it opened gates for Padmini into super stardom. In some of her other roles such as in Gehrayee (1980) and Ahista Ahista (1981), she shone as an artist.
She reunited with Rishi Kapoor in Prem Rog, which kept the box office collection ringing with a range of films ahead of her such as Vidhaata, Souten, and Pyar Jhukta Nahin among others. She worked with newcomer Anil Kapoor in Woh Saat Din, a tale about a young girl Maya who falls in love with Prem, an aspiring music director struggling to make both ends meet; Maya eventually is married off into a richer family with Doctor Anand (played by Naseeruddin Shah) who has a daughter to look after. Padmini brings out her best as a doting lover, a caring mother, and later on a wife.
At the zenith of her career, she married producer Pradeep Sharma, after working with him in Aisa Pyar Kahan, as if literally telling the world!
She made a comeback with Marathi film Chimani Pakhar (2003) which again was a flawless performance. “How Prem Rog has left an impact on people’s mind, Chimani Pakhar has left an impact on Marathi fans,” she said with a smile.
She was very recently seen in Rajkumar Santoshi’s Hindi comedy Phata Poster Nikla Hero (2013).
Though her first love is acting, she very much wanted to become a singer. Not many people know that she was in the chorus in some of Lata Mangeshkar’s and Asha Bhosle’s songs such as “Yaadon Ki Baaraat” and “Dushman Dost” and later sang for her own films in Vidhaata, Hum Intezaar Karenge, Sadak Chaap, and Saat Saheliyan.
Following are excerpts of our interview with Padmini during her recent visit to Atlanta.
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(Left) Prem Rog, the movie that made her career.
I want to begin with Prem Rog. The movie became such a sensation. Can you walk us through your memories on how you were selected for the lead role, and whether while making it you had sensed it would be such a hit, and then after it became a hit, how did it change your life?
I just sort of jumped on the bandwagon, and didn’t think in terms of hits and misses. After all, it was produced and directed by Raj Kapoor, so it was a great banner to be under, and to be working with Rishi Kapoor, such a great actor himself, and also so many other stalwarts in the film: Nanda, Tanuja, all these bigwigs. So I just put in my best.
And how I got this film: when I signed for a film by Nasir Hussain called Zamaane ko Dikhana Hai as a lead, and when this announcement came out, Mr. Raj Kapoor wanted to meet with me. He was looking for someone who could play the role of Manorama in Prem Rog. He did a screen test to see how I would do as a young widow. A lot of hard work went into making the movie. Went to Amsterdam, shot an entire song there, we shot for days on end, because Raj Kapoor, being such a perfectionist, made a great film, and when the film got released, got appreciated, became a hit at the box office, it was a different ball game altogether.
So Prem Rog made you a star. In some of your other roles such as in Gehrayee (1980), Insaf Ka Tarazu (1980), Ahista Ahista (1981), you shone as an artist. I hate to perpetuate a divide between commercial cinema and art cinema but there often is. So which identity has impacted you more, that of the star or that of an artist?
Fortunately, I had already reached stardom when I had done a lot of films that most people would call ‘art cinema’—because they were women-oriented films with social messages—but they were also commercial hits. So, there’s no such thing as art cinema and commercial cinema. It’s all about crossing the lines. These films were produced by B. R. Chopra and Raj Kapoor, and they were never considered as art filmmakers. If it’s a low budget film, it’s considered an art cinema and if it’s a high budgeted film, it’s commercial cinema. But that is not to say that commercial cinema can’t or doesn’t take up serious issues. Prem Rog is a perfect example.
You started young in films. Right from the beginning you landed challenging roles, often considered taboo. How did that shape you as a person and an actor?
I grew up in a typical Maharashtrian middle class family. So we had our values, and typical growing up years were very normal, no way a star attitude in my home.
As an actor, I was very fortunate to have done great films with great directors from early on. A child is like a sponge. I just kept absorbing, gaining, and gathering all I could from all these greats—not only the directors but my co-actors. I worked with greats like Sanjeev Kumar, Dilip Kumar, and all of them. I learnt a lot from them. I completely molded into a spontaneous natural actor.
Having had that acclaim and that height, how was the long sabbatical, and coming back to movies?
I quite enjoyed my sabbatical. I was really very happy as I was really overworked. I was doing two or three shifts—from morning to night, all 365 days. So I was pretty overworked and I wanted to take a break. I devoted all my time to my family, my son. And then it just happened that after 12 or 14 years a film came to me. It was to be made in Hindi and Marathi and that really got me excited. I said, “Okay, why not? My son is big enough. Let me again do what I did best. Fortunately, the Marathi film, Chimani Pakhar (2003), again saw the producer laughing all the away to the bank. Even today, after 15 years, Maharashtrian fans talk about it, just like how Bollywood fans talk about Prem Rog.
Did you miss the limelight in between?
I was never really out of it, as my husband is a film producer, lived in Bombay. I didn’t really miss that, so to speak. Had I uprooted myself, gone somewhere, maybe got married abroad so I was totally out of touch with Bollywood, then maybe that would have been a different scenario, but nothing of that sort happened. I was very much there. My husband is very much within the industry.
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(Right) Taking to theatre. Padmini was in Atlanta for her performance in the comedy play, Baap Ka Baap.
Now that you are doing theatre, how do you keep it fresh and interesting for yourself considering every show is the same, and you go on to perform over 50 shows, as you have done with Baap Ka Baap? Doesn’t it get monotonous after a while?
You have to be excited about the next show as much as you have been excited for the first show, which is very challenging. But it works, because an actor always wants to get better. Better and better, again and again! Every time you are on stage you want to put in your best and maybe even better than that. Theatre is an actor’s medium. Like film making is totally a director’s medium.
Given a choice, if money or other things are not involved, what do you enjoy, film or theatre?
For me being in front of the camera is going to be my greatest passion and first love. But acting is acting. Whether you are acting on stage or acting in front of the camera, it’s constantly trying to better yourself.
Not many know that you are a singer as well. Do you feel your acting career competed with your singing or the other way around?
I very much wanted to become a singer. It was my first passion. Hopefully I will become a singer in my next birth because I still have that passion for singing. And destiny took a turn and made me an actor. Of course I love being an actor! I wouldn’t change that for anything. But I definitely miss out on being a singer as it runs in the family. My father was a singer. My sisters, aunts are singers, so it’s in the family. I just feel that void that I could have devoted more time to singing, but to be a singer you have to really put in hours and hours of effort. I couldn’t do that. I used to hear my father say things like ‘Zindagi nikal jati hai ek raga ko perfect karne mein.’ It is a lifetime thing. He was still trying to perfect one raga which is such a great thing. Can you imagine the kind of love, passion, and dedication these people have?
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KID-SINGER, CHILD-ACTRESS, singer, heroÂine and producer. The girl from Kolhapur has been all this and more. She began her film innings on a 'relative note', that is, singing "Yaadon ki baraat nikli hai aaj" ('Yaadon Ki Baraal') as a kid with kid sis Shivangi and Lata Mangeshkar, to whom she was also related. A few films as kid-singer and years later, Padmini began acting in films as a child artiste ('Zindagi', 'Dream Girl') and achieved instant stardom with four major hits — Raj Kapoor's 'Satyam Shivam Sundaram' (playing Zeenat Aman as a kid, coming to the rescue of her temple priest father Kanhaiyalal and taking over the song "Yashomati maiyya se"), 'Saajan Bina Suhagan', 'Thodisi Bewafai' and above all, as the teenage rape victim of psychopath Raj Babbar in B.R. Chopra's 'Insaf Ka Tarazu', for which she won the Best Supporting Actress award. In 'Gehrayee' (1981), the Hindi rehash of'The Exorcist', she played the possessed girl, creating a sensation with the shot of her nude back. Padmini's earthy-n-ethnic looks and prodigious talent earned her lead roles the moment she was physically mature enough to play a heroine.
Nasir Hussain, who had introduced her as a kid-singer in 'Yaadon Ki Baraat', was the first to cast her as Rishi Kapoor's seventh debutante co-star in 'Zamaane Ko Dikhaana Hai'. Luckily for her, her first release was not this misfired enterÂtainer, but a fairly rivetting 'Ahista Ahista' (1981), in which it was not difficult to shine as the nubile devdasi opposite a deadpan Kunal Kapoor.
The film's success (it was interestÂingly released just a few months after 'Gehrayee', her last vehicle as a kid), paved the way for more films, and her career prospects had alÂready zoomed up with Raj Kapoor signing her for 'Prem Rog' and Gulshan Rai-Subhash Ghai getting her to do 'Vidhaata'. Dev Anand even went one better by making her fall in love with him in his own 1982 flop 'Swami Dada'. Padmini Kolhapure's relaÂtively brief career (she chucked up acting after her love marÂriage to Tutu Sharma, the producer of her 'Aisa Pyar Kahan', in 1987) was resplendent with a spectrum of roles, most of which had substantial dramatic meat.
Though not averse to skin and cleavage show if the role justified it, Padmini was mainly branded as eiÂther the young girl in love or a miniature Meena Kumari-esque tragedienne. If this imaging reÂstricted her range, it also established her acting credentials in a milieu where precisely such roles brand any artiste as a great performer. Which the Kolhapure girl undoubtedly was, whether as the helpless girl trapped by her socio-cultural background in 'Woh Saat Din', the child-woman of 'Prem Rog' (a brilliant performance that annexed a Best Actress award for her), the girl-woman in the throes of a sexual awakening in 'Anubhav', the wife separated from her husband by the machinations of her rich mother in 'Pyar Jhukta Nahin', or in her other less-celÂebrated roles in films like 'Pyari Behna', 'Swarag Se Sunder', 'Mazdoor' and 'Muddat'. After the unexpected super-sucÂcess of'Pyar Jhukta Nahin', Padmini did a slew of films with Mithun Chakraborty, most of which were dramatic in nature and helped give the Bengali hero a phase of A-grade respectability as a hero.
With success as a star, Padmini wisely put her singing ambitions in a mental attic, though some filmmakers were occasionally tempted to use her voice at the fag end of her career ('Dana Pani' and a couple of other films).
After marriage to Tutu, Padmini opted out of the star firmament, completing a straggling lot of releases till 'Qurbani Rang Layegi' (1991) and 'Professor Ki Padosan' in 1994. In 1989,she turned producer with 'Dav Pech', a horrendous mutilation of the Manmohan Desai classic 'Sachcha Jhoota'. Today, she helps her husband in the producÂtion of his films, occasionally taking official credit as producer ('Rockford'/1999). An Acting AcadÂemy that she began in London has gained a .foothold and Padmini remains in touch with films even without donning the greasepaint.
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 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. Her sister Shivangi is married to famous actor Shakti Kapoor.
The buds for both acting and music were in her blood.Padmini's paternal grandmother and the legendary Dinanath Mangeshkar were sister and brother. Her grandfather Krishnarao Kolhapure, along with Dinanath Mangeshkar and Chintamani Kolhatkar owned the Balwant Naatak Company, and in these plays Krishnarao would always do all the female roles.
Her grandmother and both of her paternal aunts wanted her sister Shivangi and her to become actors, but as kids they were more inclined towards music.As kids, they would sing in films songs right from the early �s under R.D.Burman, Laxmikant-Pyarelal and Kalyanji-Anandji.
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.
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 by 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 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).
Padmini is particulary known for her bold and brazen acts in movies like "Gehrai","Insaaf Ka Taruzu", "Anubhav" and "Pathar Dil".Her fans and people loved her for her brazen style of acting that many of other Indian actresses could not and would not do in the then conservative Indian society. Another notable fact, in her movies when singing she is most of the time actually singing the songs, being a singer herself unlike most of the actors and actresses.
Padmini was also 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 Chakraborty, and they were paired together in several more films.
Padmini also has to her credit the only song in world cinema in which one actor has had seven playback voices - `Saat saheliyaan...' in Vidhaata - Hemlata, Kanchan, Anuradha Paudwal, Alka Yagnik, Sadhana Sargam, sister Shivangi and Padmini herself sang the chartbuster with Kishore Kumar under Kalyanji-Anandji for the Shammi Kapoor-Padmini Kolhapure dance number.
A striking feature of the actor's career is her getting to work with so many legends - Dev Anand (besides Ishq Ishq Ishq and Darling Darling also romantically in Swami Dada), Raj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar (Vidhaata, Mazdoor, Aag Ka Darya) as also with Shammi Kapoor (Ahista Ahista, Prem Rog, Vidhaata, Daata), Rajendra Kumar (Lovers, Star), Raj Kumar (romantically in Ek Nai Paheli), Sanjeev Kumar (Zindagi and romantically in Professor Ki Padosan), Nutan (Saajan Bina Suhagan, Teri Maang Sitaron Se Bhar Doon), Mala Sinha (Zindagi), Nanda (Ahista Ahista, Prem Rog, Mazdoor) and Tanuja (Lovers, Suhagan).
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. After her son grew up, she returned to acting in 2004, such as for the Marathi film "Manthan". She has also acted in new films such as "Eight".
She was set to play the role of Tulsi Virani in "Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi" after Smriti Irani left but then the role was offered to Gautami Kapoor
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