Neena Kulkarni is an actress, column-writer, producer and director. She was born and brought up in Mumbai. She completed her schooling from Canossa Convent High School in Mahim, and then went on to complete her further education from Elphinstone College. She began her acting journey in the 1970s on the Marathi professional stage and Hindi experimental stage, simultaneously taking part in fashion shows and modelling. She met Pt. Satyadev Dubey, her first guru, and went on to be a part of several Hindi Productions under his direction. Mohan Rakesh’s Adhe Adhure, Shankar Shesh’s, Mayavi Sarovar, and Willie Russell’s Educating Rita are a few of her prominent plays.Dr Vijaya Mehta chose her to play Shabbo in Anil Barve’s Hamidabai Chi Kothi in 1978, and thus began her long journey with Bai into the remarkable world of Marathi Theatre, with Mahasagar and Savitri. She continues to assist Bai in her workshops.Mahasagar, which she even directed, Akasmat, Dhyani Mani, Vatvat Savitri, Dehabhaan, Prem Patra, Hamidabai Chi Kothi and Chapa Kaata are some more of her successful award-winning Marathi plays. Among English plays, Neena has been part of Mahatma Versus Gandhi and Wedding Album.Her prominent Marathi films are Savat Maazhi Laadki, for which she won the State Award for Best Actress, Aai, Uttaryan and Shevri, for which she won the National Award and the PIFF Award as Producer. Neena has also won the State Award for the Best Supporting Actress for Sari Var Sari and the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for Bioscope.Her latest television show, Yeh Hai Mohabatten is running its fourth year. Among her international projects, Neena has been part of the film, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Rani, an eight part series in French, telecast on channel France Deux .
Neena Kulkarni
Movies
Rann
As the news of a bomb explosion in the Muzaffarnagar area spreads, two leading news agencies, India 24 & Headlines 24/7, deal with their respective ratings and content to attract more viewers and boost advertising revenue. Purab Shastri is hired by India 24, managed by Vijay H. Malik, while the…
Kuch Tum Kaho Kuch Hum Kahe
Two feuding neighboring families are brought together to celebrate the wedding anniversary of Vishnupratap Singh (Vikram Gokhale) and his wife (Farida Jalal), much to the dislike of Rudra Pratap (Sharad Kapoor). During this get together Abhayendra Singh (Fardeen Khan) falls in love with Mangala Solanki (Richa Pallod). Abhayendra comes to…
Kya Yehi Pyaar Hai
Rahul Tiwari secretly love Sandhya Patil for almost 4 years. Using the right opportunity he does express his love to Sandhya only to be told that Sandhya has no similar feelings for him but is only interested in completing her studies and is an abstainer from love and romance due…
Ghayal Once Again
Ajay Mehra (from previous Ghayal-1990), after finishing off his life sentence, starts a newspaper called Satyakam. Still dealing with the haunting trauma of losing his loved ones, Ajay manages to make a credible name for himself in investigative journalism. Working with a strange team of RTI activists, ex-criminals and ilk;…
Songs
Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai
Love hits people in all sorts of ways. To Sanjay (Uday Chopra) however, love hit him like a ton of bricks. Sanjay is the dithering Casanova, constantly bungling up his romantic liaisons, till one day the phone rings. Anjali (Sanjana) his childhood friend is getting married. It’s now that the…
Hasee Toh Phasee
Spread across Mumbai over a decade, the film is about the relationship between the quirky, rebellious Meeta (Parineeti Chopra) and the mischievous Nikhil (Sidharth Malhotra) struggling with their respective families to fit in. Nikhil bumps into Meeta on the occasion of her sister Deeksha’s wedding while Meeta is on the…
Bhoothnath
Banku, his mother, Anjali Sharma and father move in to their new house — the Nath villa, unaware of the fact that the house is inhabited by a ghost. It is learnt the ghost is not too happy with his new housemates. But what the ghost is not prepared for…
Paheli
Parsimonious Bhanwarlal is a Bania (businessman) who lives in Navalgarh, Rajasthan, along with his wife; his sons Sunderlal and Kishanlal; Sunderlal is married to Gajrobai and has a son. During the annual camel race, Sunderlal loses the race to the Thakur and out of shame leaves home, never to return.…
Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani
When a businessman is assassinated on the eve of election, the assassin, Mohan Joshi is arrested on the spot, but manages to escape days later during the media coverage. He is portrayed to be a terrorist and the country is thrown into an uproar. Many die who had no connection…
Fun Facts
Husband was late actor Dilip Kulkarni who acted in Parinda 1989 and was well -known Marathi actor.