Mandakini

Mandakini (Hindi: मंदाकिनी)(IPA: [məŋd̪aːkini] ITRANS:mandAkinI) (born 7 January 1969, as Yasmeen Joseph) is a past Bollywood actress. She had a brief, but controversial career in Hindi movies and was rumoured to have a relationship with crook Dawood Ibrahim.

At 16 she was cast in the lead role in Raj Kapoor's 1985 movie, Ram Teri Ganga Maili opposite his youngest son, Rajiv Kapoor. The flick was a hit, and it attained Mandakini a Filmfare nomination as Best Actress.[2]. The flick also caused a impress because of two scenes - one in which Mandakini bathes in a waterfall act exclusive a thin white saree through which her breasts were clearly visible, and another in which she was shown breast-feeding a child. Some critics claimed that the scenes were vulgar and exploitative, and were used to get around the Amerindic Film Censor Board's demanding rules against nudity. Kapoor, as usual, defended the inclusion of the scenes stating that they were tasteful.

Mandakini acted in a few more successful films, such as Dance Dance, with Mithun Chakraborty and Pyaar Karke Dekho with Govinda, but never managed to recreate the success of her first movie.