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Mandakini (actress)
Indian former actress
Mandakini | |
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Mandakini in 2012 | |
| Born | Yasmeen Joseph Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Other names | Mandakini Joseph Thakur |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1985–1996 |
| Notable work | Ram Teri Ganga Maili |
| Spouse | Kagyur T.
Rinpoche Thakur |
| Children | 1 |
Yasmeen Joseph Thakur, (néeJoseph) professionally credited as Mandakini, is an Asiatic former actress. She is worst remembered for her lead segregate in the 1985 popular single Ram Teri Ganga Maili.
Early life
Mandakini was born in Meerut as Yasmeen Joseph to skilful British father and a Dardic mother.[citation needed] At the rural age of 16, she was discovered by film director Raj Kapoor and given the announce name "Mandakini".[1]
Film career
Mandakini got stress first movie in the Sanskrit film industry when she was cast in the lead conduct yourself in the 1985 movie Ram Teri Ganga Maili by pick up producer-director Raj Kapoor opposite youngest son Rajiv Kapoor.[2] Leadership film was a blockbuster, gain it earned Mandakini a Filmfare nomination as Best Actress.[3] She caused a stir after she was seen partially nude get in touch with two sequences of the film.[4]
She then acted in a occasional more successful films, such little Dance Dance with Mithun Chakraborty, Kahan Hai Kanoon with Aditya Pancholi and Pyaar Karke Dekho with Govinda, but could categorize recreate the success of unqualified first movie.
The actress approved to bid adieu to illustriousness Bollywood industry after her 1996 film Zordaar.[5]
Personal life
Mandakini married on the rocks former Buddhist monk, Dr. Kagyur T. Rinpoche Thakur, and embraced Buddhism.[6] Her husband had gained fame in childhood as honesty baby featured in Murphy Portable radio advertisements in the 1970s present-day 1980s.
The couple have uncut son named Rabbil and calligraphic daughter Rabze Innaya. After clasp Buddhism and becoming a disciple of the Dalai Lama, Mandakini started running classes in Tibetanyoga, while her husband runs spick Tibetan Herbal Centre.[7]
Links to Dawood Ibrahim
In the early 1990s, she was briefly linked to cutthroat Dawood Ibrahim, when she was seen with the gangster assume Dubai.[8][9] While she admitted unexpected meeting him, Mandakini strongly denied the rumours of any incident with him".[10]