It was a kiss that hogged media limelight in India and Britain in the early 1980s when social media was a distant dream.
Bollywood actor Padmini Kolhapure posted the kiss on the cheek of King Charles, then a Prince and heir to the British throne, after garlanding him as the latter visited the sets of her 1981 film ‘Ahista Ahista’ in Mumbai.
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The kiss not only became the talk of the town in India and also made the Bollywood actor famous in Britain as the “woman who kissed Prince Charles”.
“It was just a peck on the cheek…the media took it somewhere else. It was no big deal,” Kolhapure had later said in an interview with a local media outlet.
Kolhapure began acting as a child artiste in 1972 at the age of 7. In 1976 and 1977, she acted in two hit flicks — ‘Zindagi’ and ‘Dream Girl’, respectively. But she hogged limelight for her role in ‘Satyam Shivam Sundaram’.
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She became a sensation when iconic filmmaker Raj Kapoor cast her as the lead heroine in ‘Prem Rog’ in 1982 opposite his son Rishi Kapoor.
Kolhapure went on to give box office hits with her performances in ‘Vidhaata’ (1982), ‘Souten’ (1983) and ‘Pyar Jhukta Nahin’ (1985). She later forayed into the regional Marathi films.
Source: United News of Bangladesh