Mamta Kulkarni: A Legend in her own mind. No where else.

Question: Has the Indian actress and sex symbol of the 1990s in Bollywood, Mamta Kulkarni ever been nominated, let alone won a Best Actress award?

Answer: In a word; No! 

In recent public appearances on TV shows, the notorious Indian celebrity -- calling her an actress is a stretch -- Mamta Kulkarni has been hyping her own past and calling herself a 'legend'. Clearly, we have varying definition of the term. 

Mamta Kulkarni has never been nominated for a Best Actress award (such as Filmfare Award for Best Actress or similar major categories for lead performances). Reliable sources like her ardent fan pages, IMDb awards section, and Filmfare-related records consistently show her only recognized nomination and win was the Filmfare Award for Lux New Face of the Year (now known as Best Female Debut) in 1994 for her performance in her debut film, Aashik Aawara. This was a debut/new face award, not a Best Actress category, and is usually handed out to photogenic newbies and non-actors the likes of Twinkle Khanna, Ananya Panday and the infamous Ms Kuklarni.  

There are no records of nominations for Filmfare Best Actress (or equivalents like Screen Awards, IIFA, etc.) in her career, which spanned the early to mid-1990s with films like Karan Arjun, Sabse Bada Khiladi, and China Gate. She may have had box-office successes and danced with controversy with her bold interviews and semi-nude magazine covers, but the now-retired actress has never been a serious contender despite proclaiming to the media that she had a greater following than Madhuri Dixit. 

In another word; Delulu. 

Now aged 54, the infamous actor appears in front of the media having eschewed cinema for religion, but several critics have noted that she's using religion to mask some serious allegations. She can try to camoflage her crimes with saffron drapes, but the long arm of the law is eventually going to reach her.  

Before there was Urvashi there was Sonam, before Sonam, Mamta Kulkarni: Queens of Delulu

Before there was Urvashi there was Sonam, before Sonam, Mamta Kulkarni: Queens of Delulu 

Just bat shit self aggrandising statements galore, Mamta Kulkarni was an illiterate nut job with delusions of grandeur, who was a media darling as she gave such quotable, risible one-liners with such convinced sincerity, you'd just have to laugh. 

Finding solace in religion to blanket over her innumerable crimes and misdemeanors, she's eluded the cops till now. Let's see if the long arm of the law finally captures her. 

Mamta Kulkarni: The Queen of Daft Quotes takes potshots at Rekha and Sridevi!

Young and dumb, when Mamta Kulkarni first appeared in Bollywood, the poorly educated daft non-actress gave so many quotable quotes that magazines lapped it up and published them verbatim. Her scandalous interviews, images and wardrobe sold tabloids like cheap hotcakes. There are too many stupid things she said back then - more so now (google and see her latest interviews) that we can't list them all here. She famously dropped her top to get to the top (that notorious Stardust cover and the infamy that followed) but with limited to non-existent acting talents, she didn't last long in the film industry. You can dance around with little to no clothes, but in the long run, if you don't have talent to back it up, you just can't last in the industry. Luck favoured her a little, then left her hanging. And now she's a wanted woman by the long arm of the law. The funny thing about karma, it serves slowly, albeit inevitably. Why does Mamta feature here? Well, one of the manyyyyyyyyyy idiotic things she said to the press stands out loud and clear in our mind. 

Kulkarni had the gall and nerve to say in print and in video, "Rekha and Sridevi are cosmetic beauties, not a natural beauty like me." 

She's also said nasty things about Madhuri Dixit, Salman Khan, Shahrukh and others too. 

When we first read the quote, the first thought that came up was, "Was she high?! On crack?! Why suddenly take potshots at icons in the industry when they had never met or interacted with the little chit?  

With her increasingly bizarre posts on social media, clearly, the poor girl needs help. Sad. 

While the ones she took aim at will be remembered for their work, talent and career, Kulkarni for only her scandals, poor choices (in film and in life) and she'll end up a has-been, who never was...