This section contains the bio of famous BollyWood Actress Urmila Matondkar.

Urmila Matondkar Biography :

Urmila Matondkar (born on February 4, 1974 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) is a Bollywood actress. Urmila Matondkar started her career as a child artist; perhaps the best known of her early movies is the 1983 "Masoom". Her first big hit was the 1995 "Rangeela", in which she played a star-struck dancer. She was nominated for a Filmfare Best Actress Award for her work in "Rangeela". Urmila Matondkar's first film with Director Ram Gopal Verma was "Drohi". She has starred in many subsequent Ram Gopal Verma pictures, such as "Daud", "Satya", "Kaun", "Mast", "Jungle", "Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya", "Bhoot", and "Ek Hasina Thi". Her biggest hits since "Rangeela" have been "Judaai", "Satya" and "Bhoot". She also turned in strong dramatic performances in "Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya", "Pinjar", "Tehzeeb", "Ek Hasina Thi", "Naina", "Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara" and "Banaras". Today Urmila is recognized as one of India's most versatile actresses.

Urmila is an outstanding dancer and has been a featured performer in many Bollywood "item numbers", in which a star gives a cameo performance in a song-and-dance number. Perhaps her best-known item number is the Chamma Chamma sequence from the 1998 "China Gate". A brief Westernized version of Chamma Chamma appeared in Baz Luhrman's 2001 film musical, 'Moulin Rouge!' -- minus Urmila. Other hit numbers include the opening song of Company, Aaiye Aajaye from the hit film "Lajja". She has recently been signed to perform the item song in the Ram Gopal Verma remake of the classic 1975 film "Sholay" titled "Ram Gopal Verma Ke Sholay". She will be playing the role originally played by the legendary Helen. Recently she has even lent her voice for Asha Bhonsle's album 'Asha and Friends' Vol 1 (2007) for the duet song 'Mehbooba Dilruba'.

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