Tejaswini Kolhapure

Tejaswini Kolhapure (Marathi: तेजस्विनी कोल्हापुरे; born January 1980) is an Indian model and actress.

Personal life

Tejaswini Kolhapure is from a Maharashtrian family. Her father, Pandharinath Kolhapure, is a classical singer whose family was from Kolhapur. She is the cousin of singers Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle, as her mother is the sister of Deenanath Mangeshkar, father of Lata and Asha.

Her mother was a Saraswat Brahmin, whose family hailed from Mangalore. She held a job working for the airlines.

Tejaswini is the sister of popular Bollywood actress Padmini Kolhapure and Shivangi Kolhapure. She is married to Pankaj Saraswat (director, writer, actor, and producer), famous for directing The Great Indian Laughter Challenge on Star World and Star Plus. On 31 January 2015 gave birth to a baby girl they have named her Vedika Saraswat.

Career

She started her career as a ramp model and went about doing more than 200 fashion shows in a career spanning over 15 years with top designers, such as Rohit Bal, Rina Dhaka, Tarun Tahiliani, JJ Vallaya, Hemant Trevedi, and Manish Malhotra. Besides doing fashion shows, Tejaswini has worked in ads for "Vimal Sarees", "HMT Watches", and "Sony Television".