1. Sonali Kulkarni was born on 3 November 1974 and is an Indian actress, producer, and writer who primarily appears in Marathi, Hindi and few Tamil films.
47 Facts About Sonali Kulkarni
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Sonali Kulkarni was honoured with V Shantaram Special Contribution Award in 2010 by the Government of Maharashtra.
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Sonali Kulkarni has worked in over 70 films, both experimental and non-experimental, in addition to acting in a few non-Indian films.
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Sonali Kulkarni is regarded as one of the most versatile Marathi actresses.
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Sonali Kulkarni received further acclaim and a National Film Award for her portrayal of a powerful woman in the Marathi-language short film Chaitra.
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Sonali Kulkarni continued to achieve success with Deool, Pune 52, The Good Road, Gulabjaam, and Ani.
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Apart from acting, Sonali Kulkarni formerly wrote a weekly column for a supplement of the Marathi daily newspaper Loksatta titled So Kul.
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Sonali Kulkarni was born on 3 November 1974 in Pune, Maharashtra.
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Sonali Kulkarni's father is an engineer, and she has two older brothers, Sandeep and Sandesh.
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Sonali Kulkarni attended Abhinava Vidyalaya and graduated from Fergusson College, where she majored in political science and received a scholarship in Marathi literature.
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Sonali Kulkarni trained in Bharatanatyam for eleven years and in classical music for four.
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Sonali Kulkarni made her screen debut as the titular character in Girish Karnad's Hindi film Cheluvi.
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The first Marathi film to star Sonali Kulkarni was Mukta, which was directed by Jabbar Patel.
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Sonali Kulkarni then acted in the NFDC-produced film Doghi, for which she got Maharashtra State Film Award and Filmfare Marathi Award for Best Actress.
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Sonali Kulkarni collaborated with Doordarshan on a Hindi film, Gulabari, which aired in 1995, as well as television shows such as Badalte Rishtey and Kata Rute Kunala in 1996.
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Sonali Kulkarni was seen in one episode of the Star Bestsellers TV Series, which ran on Star Plus from 1999 to 2000.
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Sonali Kulkarni portrayed the roles of Sanjay Dutt's wife and Hrithik Roshan's foster mother.
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Sonali Kulkarni was cast as Ramabai Ambedkar, the first wife of Ambedkar, who was played by Mammootty.
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Sonali Kulkarni got second-best actress at the 42nd Maharashtra State Film Awards for her performance as Seena, the sister of a man with schizophrenia who is battling to come to terms with his sickness.
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Sonali Kulkarni then starred as one of four widowers in White Rainbow, a film set in the Hindu holy city of Vrindavan in north India.
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Sonali Kulkarni made her Gujarati cinema debut in 2005 with Love Is Blind, which went on to win eleven Gujarat State Film Awards.
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In 2006, Sonali Kulkarni was seen in Milan Luthria's comedy thriller Taxi No 9211, in which she starred with Nana Patekar and John Abraham.
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Sonali Kulkarni featured as Sunita Shastri, Patekar's wife, in the film.
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Sonali Kulkarni went on to feature in the romantic comedy I See You and Sakhi, as well as the ensemble films Sirf and Via Darjeeling and the anthology films Darna Zaroori Hai and Mumbai Cutting.
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Sonali Kulkarni was one of the participants in the reality shows Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 2 and Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 1.
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Sonali Kulkarni had eight releases in 2009, the first of which was Gajendra Ahire's Gulmohar, in which she portrayed a devoted and supportive wife.
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In 2011, Sonali Kulkarni earned her second nomination for an IIFA award for her performance in Rohit Shetty's Singham as an honest inspector's wife seeking justice for her husband's suicide.
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Sonali Kulkarni was pregnant at the time of the shoot.
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Sonali Kulkarni won the Zee Chitra Gaurav Puraskar for Best Actress for the film.
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In 2017, Sonali Kulkarni featured in Govind Nihalani's Marathi film Ti ani Itar, which was a screen adaptation of Manjula Padmanabhan's play Lights Out.
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Sonali Kulkarni portrayed a simple, family-oriented woman opposite Ravi Jadhav.
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Sonali Kulkarni acted in Poster Boys, the Hindi remake of the Marathi film of the same name, starring Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol.
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Sonali Kulkarni then portrayed veteran Hindi and Marathi actress Sulochana Latkar in the biography Ani.
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Sonali Kulkarni played a widow and mother to a young boy in Pension, a drama about a family of three who relies heavily on the pension that the elderly lady receives as a result of her late husband's service.
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Sonali Kulkarni was awarded Best Actress by the Critics at the Filmfare Marathi Awards.
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Sonali Kulkarni's performance received widespread acclaim, earning her a third Maharashtra State Film Award for Best Actress.
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Sonali Kulkarni played a caring and supportive mother in Amazon Prime Video's comedy-drama series Half Pants Full Pants.
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Sonali Kulkarni portrayed a woman unable to have children who becomes involved in ritualistic killings alongside Uttamrao Barhate in pursuit of hidden wealth.
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Sonali Kulkarni described her role as one of the most challenging of her career.
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Sonali Kulkarni has been in a number of theater plays throughout the years.
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Sonali Kulkarni played Laxmi in Sakharam Binder, the most controversial play by Vijay Tendulkar, which was directed by her brother Sandesh Kulkarni and featured Sayaji Shinde as the title character.
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Sonali Kulkarni began writing for Viva, a supplement to the Marathi daily newspaper Loksatta, in June 2005 and continued till May 2007.
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Sonali Kulkarni used to write a column every week called So Kul.
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Sonali Kulkarni was married to the film actor Chandrakant Kulkarni for a brief time but later got divorced.
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Sonali Kulkarni is considered as one of the most popular and highest-paid actresses in Marathi cinema.
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Sonali Kulkarni is one of the most followed Marathi actress on Instagram.
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In 2024, Sonali Kulkarni acted as a jury member at the KASHISH Pride Film Festival, a LGBTQ film festival.