Tejaswini Kolhapure is an India

India

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n film actress, daughter of renowned classic singer pt. Pandharinath Kolhapure, and the sister of popular Bollywood

Bollywood

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

 actress Padmini Kolhapure

Padmini Kolhapure

Padmini Kolhapure is an Indian actress who appeared in Bollywood films during the 1970s and 1980s.-Early life:Padmini Kolhapure is from a Maharashtrian family. Her father, Pandharinath Kolhapure is a classical singer whose family was from Kolhapur and Goa. Her mother, whose family hailed from...

. She is married to Pankaj Saraswat (director, writer, actor, and producer) famous for directing The Great Indian Laughter Challenge

The Great Indian Laughter Challenge

The Great Indian Laughter Challenge is one of the very successful reality shows on Indian television. It is a competition of stand up comedians that is presented on STAR One...

 on Star.

She started her career as a ramp model and went about doing more than 200 fashion shows in a career spanning 10 years and more with top designers, such as Rohit Bal

Rohit Bal

Rohit Bal is a fashion designer from New Delhi, India. He designs for men and women, and has bridal and evening collections in addition to day-wear and ready-to-wear.-Early Life:...

, Rina Dhaka, Tarun Tahiliani

Tarun Tahiliani

Tarun Tahiliani is a noted Indian fashion designer.In 2010, Tahiliani claimed an exemption as an artist on his income tax for his design work under section 80 RR of the Indian Income Tax Act...

, JJ Vallaya, Hemant Trivedi, and Manish Malhotra

Manish Malhotra

Manish Malhotra is considered to be India's leading and most successful fashion designer.Manish Malhotra has designed for many leading actresses in Bollywood. He is known for his different style and his ability to envision a 'look' for the character. He is known for designing the costumes for...

. Besides doing fashion shows, Tejaswini has also worked in Ad Films, such as "Vimal Sarees", "HMT Watches", and "Sony Television".

Before she started her career with modeling and films, she made her debut with a television series, Mujhe Chaand Chahiye

Mujhe Chaand Chahiye

Mujhe Chaand Chahiye is a television series that aired on Zee TV channel. The series was shot in a small town in Uttar Pradesh, and featured popular Bollywood actress Padmini Kolhapure's younger sister Tejaswini Kolhapure, who debuted her career with this small screen television series.-Concept:The...

 directed by Satish Kaushik

Satish Kaushik

Satish Kaushik is an Indian film director and actor in Hindi films and theatre.As a film actor his most remembered for his role as 'Calendar' in Mr. India, and as 'Chanu Ahmed' in Sarah Gavron's English film Brick Lane...

 on Zee TV

Zee TV

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. She also worked in "Saughat" & "Tum Bin", episodes of Rishtey

Rishtey

Rishtey is a Bollywood film released on 6 December 2002. The film directed by Indra Kumar stars Anil Kapoor, Karisma Kapoor, Shilpa Shetty and Amrish Puri in the lead roles.-Synopsis:...

, mini-series on Zee TV

Zee TV

Zee TV is an India-based satellite television channel owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, which broadcasts various programmes in Hindi and other regional languages of India. Broadcasting is also present in various nations of South Asia, Europe, the Middle East,...

.

Theatre work

1999

• "The Magic Pill" directed by Satyadev Dubey
• "Sabse Bada Thag" directed by Makrand Deshpandey

2000

• "Brahma Vishnu Mahesh" directed by Satyadev Dubey

2002

• "Modh" during the 'Prithvi Festival 2002' directed by Ahlam Khan

2005

• "Beauty, Brains, & Personality" directed by Vandana Sajnani

2007

• "Flirt in Your Dreams" directed by Satyadev Dubey

2008

• "All About Women" directed by Hidayat Samis

Films

• Paanch
  Paanch
  Paanch is an unreleased Indian film written and directed by Anurag Kashyap and starring Kay Kay Menon, Aditya Srivastava, Vijay Maurya, Joy Fernandes and Tejaswini Kolhapure. The film is "loosely" based on the 1976-77 Joshi-Abhyankar serial murders in Pune. The film never got a theatrical or...
  
  director Anuraag Kashyap
• Stop! director Ajay Sinha
• Anjaane
  Anjaane (2005 film)
  Anjaane is the name of an Indian ghost movie, a Bollywood movie released in 2005. The main cast consisted of Manisha Koirala, Sanjay Kapoor, Tejasvini Kolhapure and Helen. The film was directed by Harry W. Fernandes. The genre of the film is "horror-drama"...
  
  director Harry Fernandes
• Mumbai Cutting
  Mumbai Cutting
  Mumbai Cutting is a 2010 anthology Indian film comprising eleven short films, telling eleven different stories based on life in Mumbai, which are directed by a host of eleven directors: Anurag Kashyap, Sudhir Mishra, Rahul Dholakia, Kundan Shah, Revathy, Jahnu Barua, Rituparno Ghosh, Shashanka...
  
  director Shashank Ghosh
• Salt & Pepper director Mohinder Pratap Singh
• Awasthi
  Awasthi
  Awasthi is a surname of a particular sub-caste of Brahmins of Nepal and India. The Awasthi Brahmins belong to the kanya-kubja Brahman categories of Brahmans of northern India as well as in western areas of Nepal], but also in Gaur, Saryupari and Sannaadhya....
  
   special appearance director Bhavna Talwar
• Raavan
  Raavan
  Raavan is a 2010 Hindi film directed, written and produced by Mani Ratnam. It stars Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai and Vikram in the lead roles while Govinda, Ravi Kishan, Nikhil Dwivedi, Tejaswini Kolhapure and Priyamani feature in key supporting roles...
  
  director Mani Ratnam