Tejaswini Kolhapure


Tejaswini Kolhapure is an Indian model and actress.

Personal life

Kolhapure was born in Mumbai and is from a Maharashtrian family. Her father, Pandharinath Kolhapure, is a classical singer whose family was from Kolhapur.
She is the niece of singer Lata Mangeshkar, as her paternal grandmother was the half-sister of Deenanath Mangeshkar, Lata's father. Her mother was a Mangalorean Nirupama Prabhu her family hailed from Mangalore. She held a job working for the airlines.
Kolhapure and her husband, Pankaj Saraswat, had a daughter in 2015.

Career

Before she started her career with modelling and films, she made her debut with a television series, Mujhe Chaand Chahiye, directed by Satish Kaushik on Zee TV. She appeared in the "Saughat" and "Tum Bin", episodes of the miniseries Rishtey on Zee TV. She was also a involved in theatre.
Her first film made with Anurag Kashyap, Paanch, was not initially released. Paanch was delayed in its release due to problems with the depictions of violence, language and drug use in the film. Her appearance in Ugly was with the director, Kashyap, once more where she played a depressed young woman who was also an alcoholic. Kolhapure said that filming Ugly was a draining experience. The Hindustan Times wrote that "Kolhapure plays a battered wife and brings out the pain of a barren life perfectly."

Theatre

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