Ashwini Bhave

Ashwini Bhave

Ashwini Bhave is an Indian actress from Maharashtra. She works mainly in Marathi films and television serials. Bhave has also worked in Hindi films.Bhave was first noticed on television in a Hindi Sci-Fi serial Antariksh. She later acted as the lead heroine in Marathi super-hit movies such as Dhadakebaaz, Ashi Hi Banwa Banwi and Kalat Nakalat opposite top Marathi movie stars like Laxmikant Berde, Ashok Saraf, Sachin and Vikram Gokhale.
In 1991 at the peak of her stardom in the Marathi film industry, Bhave made her Bollywood debut when she was cast as second lead opposite Rishi Kapoor in the Hindi movie Henna directed by Randhir Kapoor under the RK Films banner. Subsequently she starred in other Hindi movies such as Meera Ka Mohan, Honeymoon, Sainik and Bandhan but none of these films were commercially successful. Bhave again switched over to television and Marathi movies. In 1993, she acted in the Kannada blockbuster hit film Vishnu-Vijaya directed by Keshu starring South Indian Super Star Dr.Vishnuvardhan, Akshay Kumar(her co-star in Sainik), Ashutosh Rana and others. In 1997 she acted in V. Manohar's directorial Kannada film Rangenahalliyage Rangada Rangegowda starring another Kannada's legendary star, Ex-MP and the present Karnataka State's Minister of Horticulture Dr.Ambareesh and Super Star Ramesh Aravind.
Bhave also played the lead role in a famous Marathi stage play Lagnachi Bedi (The Handcuffs of Marriage). In 1993, she played the character of a mother to Saif Ali Khan in the Yash Chopra movie Parampara. She later acted in a television mega-serial Yugpurush.

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