Actress Mandakini: Indian film star of the 80s

Yasmin Mandakini is an Indian actress, whose game once captivated a million audience. Many viewers, with bated breath, watched the scene in which the girl bathed in the waters of the waterfall. The white sari, carelessly wrapped around her body, gradually became more transparent, thanks to this there appeared forms of beauty, which Aphrodite herself could envy.

Actress Mandakini was able to combine in her game sexuality and sensitivity, and performed it so easily and at ease that many of her followers vainly tried to play such a scene, but no one managed to do so effectively, as happened in Mandakini.

This episode played a decisive role in the acting practice of the 16-year-old actress. It was just so many years that Yasmin was at the time of the release of the film "Ganges, your waters are muddled!".

Film Practice

Actress Mandakini for the whole period of her career in the world of cinema played the main and secondary roles in more than 40 films, 24 of which have Russian voice acting, the rest are broadcast to this day within the country of the actress.

The debut took place in 1985, when the last film of the legendary Indian film director Raja Kapoor appeared on the screens "Gang, your waters were muddled!" With the participation of our heroine in the title role.

In 1986, the rising star starred in the movie "Love Networks", which also featured well-known actors - Mithun Chakroborti and Rekha. Later in one of the interviews, the actress noted that this work brought her great experience, as she could observe the play of such talented Indian actors.

In 1987, Yasmin Mandakini starred in the film "Dance, dance!" Again, paired with Chakroborti. Their tandem in the future will repeatedly appear in numerous paintings - "Commandos", "Enemy", "Shine", "Loneliness", "Victim in the name of love", "Three friends" and others.

One of the most popular films with her participation was the comedy film "Love and Believe", where actress Mandakini played in a pair with the famous actor Govinda.

Mandakini ceased her acting activity in 1996.

Yasmin Mandakini is an actress: films with her participation (Russian dubbing)

They, as already mentioned, only 24. The names of the films are presented in this material.

A brief biography and interesting facts from life

The actress's father is an Englishman, and her mother is an Indian, and the real name of the actress is Joseph.

Yasmin has a brother and sister. In her native city, she graduated from a women's secondary school, and then a college with an English bias. Due to this he is fluent in English, and also knows Hindi.

Yasmin dreamed of becoming an actress from a young age, so she came to Bombay to enter the Bombay Institute of Cinematography.

At the same time as a model, she took part in numerous photo sessions. In 1983 she became the winner of the All India beauty contest, after which she was noticed by filmmakers.

In 1985, Yasmin Mandakini received the award of the oldest and most prestigious Indian film award for the best female role in the film "Ganges, your waters are muddled!"

Mandakini is the pseudonym that Raj Kapur (Indian filmmaker) came up with for her in honor of the Ganges River, whose waters, according to the ideas of the Hindus, flow from heaven to earth. The river has the second name Mandakini.

In 1996, actress Mandakini released two solo albums, thereby testing herself as a vocalist.

Mandakini now

At the moment, Yasmin is married to a Tibetan medicine doctor, a follower of the Dalai Lama. The family brings up two children - a son and a daughter.

Currently, Yasmin and his family live in Mumbai. In the 2000s she and her husband opened a yoga school where the former Bollywood star teaches yoga and meditation lessons.

The latest event, covered by the press, was news that in 2010 Indian actress Mandakini tried herself as a producer and director and together with her husband released the film "The Lost Country".