Biography
Mandakini is a pseudonym of Bollywood's film actresses Yasmin Joseph, received by her from the director Raja Kapura at the premiere of debut for the artist of the film "Gang, your waters muddied." The name is consonant with one of the names of the sacred river, in addition, so called the first Indian actress of a silent movie. The new name brought good luck to the girl, Mandakini starred in the polustener of kinocartin, dancing and delighting the views of the audience.Childhood and youth
Yasmin was born on July 30, 1969 in the Big city of Merath, in the mountain part of Uttar Pradesh. From the parents, the girl inherited an unusual appearance for Indiana: Light leather and blue eyes got from Father, Englishman Jenga Joseph, and dark hair, oriental plastic movements and musicality - from Mother Caina Manga. The family was distinguished by latitude of views.
Parents celebrated Christian and Muslim holidays (father - according to Catholic, and mother - on Islamic calendar), gave daughters education and the right to independently choose their life path. Yasmin since childhood dreamed of acting career, her idol was the Zina Aman - actress and model. Therefore, after graduating from the hometown of school and college in 1983, a fourteen-year-old girl leaves for Bombay to enter the Institute of Cinematography.
In parallel with study, Yasmin Joseph acts as a fashion model and participates in competitions. After the victory on the All-Indian Beauty Competition, the girl noticed a film generator Ranjet Virk and added her photo to a film studio database. There I saw the director Raj Kapoor, who sought new faces for the conceived project.
Films
The famous director lit a new star in Bollywood sky. In the film "Gang, your waters muddied" the girl received a major role. Brave actress agreed to play in the frank for artistic cinema of the time of the swimming scene under the waterfall. It is in the image of a young beauty in a translucent white sari, emphasizing the forms of the flexible body, Mandakini remembered the audience.
Raj Kapoor planned and continue to work with a promising film actress, but, to the great grief of fans of Indian cinema, Mandakini's debut film became the last for the director who died in 1988. Romantic history of a river girl, pilot tolerant of fate, touched the hearts of viewers and film critics. "Gang, your waters clutched" received Filmfare Awards awards in five nominations.
A vertex recognition of acting Mandakini became the nomination at Filmfare Award for the best female role. Clean your first role film actresses failed. She starred a lot, but the director saw in Mandakin only a beautiful woman who can dance and not refuse to undress in front of the camera. The remaining talents were little in demand in cheap entertainment films, tens of removed in India.
Eliminated in the filmography of actresses of the film in which she worked with Mithung Chakraborti. Their cooperation began in 1986 on the shooting platform of the film "Love Web" directed by Skreda Mehra. There, Mandakini met the rope - a colleague, subsequently became a close friend. Together with Mithun Mandakini starred in the top ten projects, the film director Babbar Subhash "Dance, Dance" is most famous for the audience.
In the Soviet Union, this film was duplicated on the Gorky's film studio and slightly reduced. At the request of censorship, the most brutal episodes were cut out, but the scenes with the participation of Mandakini remained intact. Soviet audience, not spoiled foreign cinema, musical Indian paintings seemed to the window in a fairy tale. However, in other countries, sentimental housewives cried over the fate of unfortunate lovers.
The third most popular was the film "Love and Believe", where Mandakini played a pair with the famous actor Govinda. In this tape, her character, in love with the main hero of Urvashi, not only beautifully suffers, but also enters into funny situations that allowed Mandakini to demonstrate the abilities of the comedy actress. At the beginning of the nineties, directors began to offer less interesting roles, as a result, the actress completed the film.
Personal life
The personal life of the popular artist was under a closer look of the media, and the information journalists were taken from an interview with the Mandakin itself, but from gossip and rumors. While working on the film "Dance, Dance" rumors about her novel with a colleague, the performer of the leading role of Mithun Chakraborti, but in reality only friendly relations were associated.
In 1994, the press appeared photographs of Mandakini with Dubai Gangster Davud Ibrahim Kaskar. Rumors argued that the actress was a long-standing mistress of criminal authority and the role she received thanks to the lover's money. A couple of career was explained by the fact that Mandakini went with Dubai Mandaki to Dubai and gave birth to him. The actress denied these gossip, but in 1996 ceased to film.
In 1990, Mandakini married a doctor of Tibetan medicine Kagyur Rinposha Thakura. Thakur in the 70s and 80s was filmed in Murphy Radio commercials, was a Buddhist monk. Spouses raise her daughter and son. In 2010, the pair acted as a producer and director, removing the film "Lost Country" about Tibet. Also, after the end of the film engineers, the artist recorded two NO Vacancy and Shambala music album, but the singing career did not work out.
Mandakini now
Spouses together lead a Tibetan herbal center and a yoga school, in which Mandakini gives yoga lessons and meditation. Despite the teaching and social work, the main feature of the former film actrix considers the role of mother and housewives.
In rare (in 2018, the life of the star of the last century is no longer interesting to journalists) interviews says that it has now become happy, because he has been engaged in a loved one and manage to communicate with friends and relatives.
Filmography
- 1985 - "Gang, your waters muddied"
- 1986 - "Love Networks"
- 1987 - "Dance, Dance"
- 1988 - "Commandos"
- 1988 - "Three more"
- 1989 - "Loneliness"
- 1989 - "Victim in the Name of Love"
- 1989 - "Bloody Account"
- 1990 - "Glitter"
- 1990 - "Enemy"
- 1990 - "Love and Believe"
- 1992 - "Dance, Govinda, Dance"