Mandakini (born 30 July 1969, as Yasmeen Joseph) is a former Bollywood actress. She is better remembered for her role in the 1985 movie Ram Teri Ganga Maili.
Mandakini was born in an Anglo Indian family in Meerut. Her father, Joseph is British and her mother is Hindu.
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 movie was a hit, and it earned Mandakini a Filmfare nomination as Best Actress.
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.
In 1990, Mandakini married a former Buddhist monk, Dr. Kagyur T. Rinpoche Thakur (who was famous as the Murphy baby) with children. She has a son named Rabbil and a daughter Rabze Innaya Thakur. Their son died in a road accident in 2000.
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