URMILA MATONDKAR QUITS CONGRESS JOINS SHIV SENA

Urmila Matondkar has again made headlines when she joined Shiv Sena after quitting Congress . Almost a month after the Maha Vikas Aghadi recommended Urmila Matondkar's name for a seat in the legislative council under the governers quota, she joined Shiv Sena in the presence of party president and chief minister Uddhav Thackeray at Matoshree on tuesday.

Born on 4 February 1974 (age 46)

Nationality - Indian

Occupation - Actress

Years active - 1980–present

Political party - Indian National Congress (March 2019 – September 2019, Shiv Sena (December 2020 - present)

Spouse(s) - Mohsin Akhtar Mir (m. 2016

"I am very impressed with Uddhav Thackeray's work," she said. "The way he handled the Covid pandemic , Nisarga cyclone and drought situation in one year was incredible. He is also interacting with the people of Maharashtra regularly like a family member.

When asked about the Hindu ideology question she clarified that she was also a Hindu ."Secularism does not mean to hate the other religion or to oppose and hate one own's religion ," she said" I am a Hindu by' janam' and' karma' .I have studied religion and also done yoga since childhood . Religion is not for show off but to keep in the heart and it is a matter of faith .Whenever required I have followed religion and will follow in future too.

On being trolled she replied that she had not quit politics but only the Congress . "Not a mere 14 days but it is almost over 14 months since I quit the Congress, and now I have joined the Sena , " she said. " I am trolled means I am on the right path . I have never opposed or blocked anyone . We should try to remove the vicious politics that exists in the system."

She had fought the 2019 Lok Sabha election as a Congress candidate but was defeated by BJP candidate Gopal Shetty in North Mumbai. Alleging internal politics, she had quit the Congress.

Urmila Matondkar's Acting Career

In 1995, Matondkar established herself as a leading actress of contemporary Hindi cinema by featuring in Varma's musical romance Rangeela, one of the top-grossing productions of the year. Co-starring Aamir Khan and Jackie Shroff, the film emerged as a blockbuster with a gross of ₹334 million. At the 41st Filmfare Awards, Rangeela was nominated for 12 awards including a first Best Actress nomination for Matondkar. The film was screened at the International Film Festival of India.

In the same year, she also starred alongside Mohanlal in the Malayalam action Thacholi Varghese Chekavar. She played Maya, the only witness in a homicide who is kept under house arrest by her parents. Matondkar played Mili Joshi, an effervescent fun-loving friend of a street-toughened orphan, who ambitions of becoming an actress.

She gained wider public recognition with the 1994 hit romantic drama Aa Gale Lag Ja, starring alongside Jugal Hansraj.Matondkar became an overnight star and received her first Filmfare nomination for Rangeela. Matondkar's first release of 1997 was Raj Kanwar's melodrama Judaai. A remake of the 1994 Telugu film Shubhalagnam, it tells the story of Kajal (played by Sridevi), lured by wealth who asks her husband, Raj (played by Anil Kapoor), an honest engineer, to marry Janhvi (played by Matondkar), the rich daughter of his boss. The Indian Express asserted that "it is Urmila Matondkar who comes out with flying colours".

The film emerged as a commercial success and her performance fetched her a Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award nomination. Her next releases were the crime comedy Daud alongside Sanjay Dutt, the romantic drama Mere Sapno Ki Rani alongside Sanjay Kapoor and the action romance Aflatoon alongside Akshay Kumar. All these films underperformed at the box-office.

She next reunited with Varma for her third Telugu release, the road movie Anaganaga Oka Roju, starring alongside J. D. Chakravarthy. The film involves the comic travails of a couple eloping, on the run from their parents who get entangled as murder suspects of a politician, in a police and political mafia road hunt for an incriminating audio tape. The film received positive reviews and emerged as a box office hit.

Nirupama Subramanian of India Today felt the film was a commercial potboiler and wrote, "Indian has dances, foot-tapping melodies by A. R. Rahman and two pretty women, Manisha Koirala and Urmila Matondkar". Both Indian and Hindustani were commercial successes. The film was India's official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film for the Academy Awards in 1996, but was not nominated.

In 1996, she played Sapna, the daughter of an RTO official in S. Shankar's Indian (1996), which marked her first Tamil film. It was also dubbed and released in Hindi under the title Hindustani. Featuring Kamal Haasan in dual roles alongside Matondkar and Manisha Koirala, it was the most expensive Indian film at that time, with a budget of ₹150 million.

Her next release was the crime Satya, for which she received another Filmfare Best Actress nomination. The film was received favourably by critics and was a huge hit at the box office, solidifying Matondkar's position as a leading lady of Bollywood. Satya was on CNN-IBN's 2013 list of the 100 greatest Indian films of all time, in the 100 Filmfare Days series and on the "70 iconic movies of independent India" list. It was mentioned in Rachel Dwyer's 100 Bollywood Films (where she called it a "masterpiece"), and in critic and author Shubhra Gupta's 50 Films That Changed Bollywood, 1995-2015.

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