Yasmine Joseph

Mandakini is the pseudonym of the Bollywood film actress Yasmin Joseph, which she received from director Raj Kapoor at the premiere of the artist's debut film "Ganges, Your Waters Are Turbid". The name is consonant with one of the names of the sacred river, in addition, that was the name of the first Indian silent film actress. The new name brought the girl good luck, Mandakini starred in fifty films, dancing and delighting the eyes of the audience.

Yasmin was born on July 30, 1969 in the large city of Meratha, in the mountainous part of Uttar Pradesh. From her parents, the girl inherited an unusual appearance for an Indian woman: light skin and blue eyes came from her father, the Englishman Jenga Joseph, and dark hair, oriental plasticity of movements and musicality from her mother, Kaina Mangu. The family was distinguished by its open-mindedness.

Parents celebrated Christian and Muslim holidays (father - according to the Catholic, and mother - according to the Islamic calendar), gave their daughter an education and the right to independently choose their own way of life. Since childhood, Yasmin dreamed of an acting career, her idol was Zinat Aman, an actress and model. Therefore, after graduating from school and college in her hometown, in 1983, a fourteen-year-old girl leaves for Bombay to enter the Institute of Cinematography.

In parallel with his studies, Yasmin Joseph acts as a model and participates in competitions. After winning the All India Beauty Contest, the girl was noticed by film producer Ranjit Virk and added her photo to the studio's database. There the photo was seen by director Raj Kapoor, who was looking for new faces for the planned project.

The famous director lit a new star in the sky of Bollywood. In the film "Ganges, Your Waters Are Turbid", the girl got the main role. The brave actress agreed to star in a scene of bathing under a waterfall, which was frank for a feature film of that time. It was in the image of a young beauty in a translucent white sari, emphasizing the shape of a flexible body, that Mandakini was remembered by the audience.

Raj Kapoor planned to continue working with the promising film actress, but, to the great grief of fans of Indian cinema, Mandakini's debut film was the last for the director, who died in 1988. The romantic story of a river girl who steadfastly endures the blows of fate touched the hearts of viewers and film critics. "Ganges, Your Waters Are Turbid" won five Filmfare Awards.

And the pinnacle of recognition for Mandakini's acting work was the nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress. The film actress failed to surpass her first role. She starred a lot, but the directors saw in Mandakini only a beautiful woman who knows how to dance and does not refuse to undress in front of the camera. The rest of the talents were little in demand in cheap entertainment films, dozens of filming in India.

The films in which she worked together with Mithun Chakraborty stand out in the filmography of the actress. Their collaboration began in 1986 on the set of the film "Networks of Love" directed by Umesh Mehra. There, Mandakini met Rekha, a colleague who later became a close friend. Together with Mithun, Mandakini starred in a dozen projects, the best known to the audience is the film "Dance, Dance" directed by Babbar Subhash.

In the Soviet Union, this film was dubbed at the Gorky Film Studio and slightly reduced. At the request of the censorship, the most violent episodes were cut, but the scenes with Mandakini's participation remained intact. To Soviet viewers, not spoiled by foreign cinema, Indian musical films seemed like a window into a fairy tale. However, in other countries, sentimental housewives wept over the fate of the unfortunate lovers.

The third most popular was the film "Love and Believe", where Mandakini played in tandem with the famous actor Govinda. In this tape, her character, in love with the main character Urvasi, not only suffers beautifully, but also finds herself in funny situations that allowed Mandakini to demonstrate the abilities of a comedian. In the early nineties, directors began to offer less and less interesting roles, as a result, the actress completed her film career.

The personal life of the popular artist was under the scrutiny of the media, and the journalists did not take information from interviews with Mandakini herself, but from gossip and rumors. While working on the film "Dance, Dance" there were rumors about her romance with her colleague, the leading actor Mithun Chakraborty, but in reality they were connected only by friendship.

In 1994, photographs of Mandakini appeared in the press with the Dubai gangster Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar. Rumors claimed that the actress was a longtime mistress of a crime boss and she got the role thanks to her lover's money. The two-year break in her career was explained by the fact that Mandakini left with Daud Ibrahim for Dubai and gave birth to his child. The actress denied this gossip, but in 1996 she stopped acting in films.

In 1990, Mandakini married the Tibetan medical doctor Kagyur Rinposha Thakura. Thakur appeared in Murphy Radio commercials in the 70s and 80s and was a Buddhist monk. The spouses are raising a daughter and a son. In 2010, the couple acted as a producer and director for The Lost Country, a film about Tibet. Also, after the end of her film career, the artist recorded two music albums No Vacancy and Shambala, but her singing career did not work out.

The couple run the Tibetan Herbal Center and yoga school together, where Mandakini gives yoga and meditation lessons. Despite teaching and social work, the former film actress considers her main function to be the role of a mother and a housewife. 

In rare interviews (in 2018, the life of a star of the last century is no longer interesting to journalists), she says that she has now become happy, because she is doing what she loves and has time to communicate with friends and family.

1985 - "Ganges, your waters are muddy" 1986 - "Networks of love" 1987 - "Dance, dance" 1988 - "Commando" 1988 - "Three friends" 1989 - "Loneliness" 1989 - "Sacrifice in the name of love" 1989 - "Bloody account "1990 -" Shine "1990 -" Enemy "1990 -" Love and Believe "1992 -" Dance, Govinda, dance "

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