Bhubaneswar: Bhagyashree has the royal beauty. For which, she became India’s sweetheart after the mega success of the film Maine Pyar Kiya. Her beauty has the charm, the grace and the nobility.
For her impressive debut and onscreen charisma, the actress was awarded with the best female debut of the year.
Today, the beauty queen is celebrating her 56th birthday.
Bhagyashree Patwardhan was born on 23 February 1969. She is known mononymously as Bhagyashree.
REAL ROYALE STAR
Royality has been in her DNA.
She is from the Marathi royal family of Sangli in Maharashtra. Bhagyshree is the granddaughter of Chintamanrao Dhundirao Patwardhan, the last ruling Raja of the princely state of Sangli under the British Raj in India. Her father, Vijay Singhrao Madhavrao Patwardhan, is the titular Raja of Sangli. She is the eldest of three daughters, the other two being Madhuvanti and Purnima
FILMY DEBUT
Bhagyashree started her acting career with the 1987 television serial Kachchi Dhoop, which was based on Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. She was approached to act in the serial by Amol Palekar of Golmaal fame, who offered her the role as the earlier actress had abandoned the project abruptly.
Bhagyashree made her filmy debut in the 1989 in the commercially successful Hindi film of Rajshri Productions Maine Pyar Kiya.
She starred alongside Salman Khan where she played Suman – a simple girl. This remains her most successful and best known film to date, for which she won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.
SANYAS FROM FILM INDUSTRY
Post the blockbuster success of Maine Pyar Kiya that propelled Salman Khan to the stardom race, Bhagyashree was too rated as the most sought after heroine in 1989-90. Producers and directors queued up at her house.
But the actress stunned all. She entered into the conjugal world by marrying to Himalaya Dassani on 19 January 1989.
After her marriage she laid down one condition to the producers and directors that she will act in a film alongside her husband only.
Bhagyashree and Himalaya have together acted in three films in the year 1992: Qaid Main Hai Bulbul, K.C. Bokadia's Tyagi and Mahendra Shah's Paayal.
She also acted with Avinash Wadhawan in Ghar Aaya Mera Pardesi in 1993, which has been her last Hindi film in the 1990s.
Bhagyashree also has picked up roles in a few Tamil, Kannada and Telugu films. She made her Telugu debut in the film Yuvaratna Rana (1998). She also appeared in episodes of the television series CID and Kabhie Kabhie.
RETURN TO BOLLYWOOD
Bhagyashree’s returned to Hindi films in the mid-2000s. Her first appearance was in Maa Santoshi Maa (2003), Humko Deewana Kar Gaye (2006) and Red Alert: The War Within (2010).
After a gap of several years, she made her comeback to television with the TV serial Laut Aao Trisha aired on Life OK from 2014 to 2015.
In 2019, she appeared in the Kannada film Seetharama Kalyana. She is set to return to Telugu films with the Telugu remake of the 2014 Hindi film 2 States.
In 2021, she appeared in the bilingual releases Thalaivi and Radhe Shyam.
In February 2022, she entered as a contestant in StarPlus's Smart Jodi with her husband, Himalaya Dasani.
RE-UNITES WITH BHAIJAAN
In 2023, she made a cameo appearance in Salman Khan starred Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan, where she reunited with her first co-star Salman Khan after 34 years. Her husband and son also made cameos alongside her.
BRAND AMBASSADOR OF MAHARASHTRA
In March 2015, Bhagyashree became brand ambassador of the Bhagyashree Scheme, launched by the Government of Maharashtra. Bhagyashree Scheme caters to girl child from below poverty line families
