Bhagyashree
| Bhagyashree Patwardhan | |
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Bhagyashree in 2015
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| Born |
Shrimant Rajkumari Bhagyashree Raje Patwardhan 23 February 1969 |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1987–present |
| Spouse(s) | Himalaya Dasani (m. 1990) |
| Children | 4 |
| Parent(s) |
Meherban Shrimant Rajasaheb Vijaysinghrao Madhavrao Patwardhan (father) Shrimant Akhand Soubhagyavati Rani Rajyalakshmi Patwardhan (Mother) |
Meherban Shrimant Rajasaheb Vijaysinghrao Madhavrao Patwardhan (father)
Bhagyashree is Indian actress. She is best known for her debut lead role in the film Maine Pyar Kiya for which she won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. She has appeared in Hindi and a few Kannada, Marathi, Telugu and some Bhojpuri films.
Bhagyashree hails from the Patwardhan royal Marathi family of Sangli in Maharashtra. Her father Vijay Singhrao Madhavrao Patwardhan, is the current Raja of Sangli. She is the eldest of three daughters, the other two being Madhuvanti and Purnima. She married with Sindhi Businessman Himalaya Dassani.They have four children together; two daughters(b.1996 and b.1999)and two sons(b.1991 and b.1994)
She started her acting career with Kachchi Dhoop – a television serial by Amol Palekar. It was based on Louisa Mary Alcott's Little Women. Her rendezvous with acting happened by chance when next door neighbor Amol Palekar, a renowned actor-director, requested her to step in and act in his serial Kacchi Dhoop as the actress who had been signed on had abandoned the serial abruptly. The serial did well and later on she had roles in Honi Anhoni and Kisse Miya Biwi Ke.
She is best known for her role in the 1989 blockbuster film Maine Pyaar Kiya with Salman Khan. After marriage, she acted in three films: Peepat's Qaid Main Hai Bulbul, K.C. Bokadia's Tyagi and Mahendra Shah's Payal all opposite her husband Himalaya in 1992. She also acted with Avinash Wadhawan in Ghar Aaya Mera Pardesi (1993). This was her last Hindi film in the 1990s and she took a break from films for rest of the decade. She made her Telugu debut in the film Yuvaratna Rana (1998).
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