Mamta Kulkarni is a former Bollywood heroine. During the 1990’s, she was part of several commercial hits like Karan Arjun, Sabse Bada Khiladi, Aashiq Awara and Krantiveer. She created a storm with her topless cover shoot for Stardust magazine in 1993.

Mamta Kulkarni is born on 20^th April, 1972 in Mumbai. Her real name is “Mamta Mukhund Kulkarni” better known by her screenname Mamata Kulkarni

Mamata Kulkarni made her debut through the Tamil film Nanbargal which was released in Hindi as Mera Dil Tere Liye directed by S. A. Chandrasekhar.

She made her Bollywood debut in the 1992 movie Tiranga. In 1993 she starred in Aashiq Awara which won her a Filmfare Lux New Face Award.

Mamta also did movies in Tamil, Telugu, Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam. And she managed to score leading roles with all of Bollywood’s top actors in the 1990s: Salman Khan-SRK (Karan Arjun), Aamir Khan (Baazi), Akshay Kumar (Sabse Bada Khiladi), Saif Ali Khan (Aashiq Awara).

She went to appear in many other famous films like Waqt Hamara Hai, Ghatak: Lethal, Beqabu, Baazi, Gangstar, Chupa Rustam, Qila, Andolan, and many more.

Mamta was approached for many other movies with Ajay Devgan, Bobby Deol, Shahrukh Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Akshaye Khanna, but she kept on rejecting big projects like Agnaary, Mr and Mrs Khiladi, Bandahan, Aunty No 1, Aflatoon and Shikary because of the money matters.

She gained fame after posing topless (but with her arms crossed over her breasts) for a photograph that appeared on the cover of Stardust, a popular Indian film magazine in September 1993. She was charged under India’s obscenity laws, and found herself under attack from both conservative religious groups, and women’s groups. The outspoken actress lashed out at protesters, calling them hypocrites.

Mamta Kulkarni was finally convicted in July 2000, and fined Rs 15,000. However, this caused yet another controversy because she appeared in court in a burqa to evade photographers, which led to death threats and protests from the local Muslim community.

In 1997, she was reportedly paid a large amount to perform at a private function by a legislator from Bihar, who was later arrested after investigations into the Fodder Scam case. Mamta Kulkarni was interrogated, but she denied any knowledge of the legislator’s antecedents.

There were whispers of her being secretly married to fight master-turned-director Tinu Verma. There were also whispers of her being attached to the underworld, a nexus that allegedly brought her back to the sets of Raj Kumar Santoshi’s China Gate after being thrown out. And then at the cusp of the millennium, Miss Kulkarni just disappeared.

Finally, she quit movies after her last appearance in the 2002 film Kabhie Tum Kabhie Hum. Then she moved to New York.

Mamta Kulkarni, who had fallen in love with the drug lord Vicky Goswami, reportedly married him while he was in prison for trafficking in contraband substances. The 52 year-old Vicky had converted to Islam in prison in Dubai and secured an early release for good behaviour.