This 90s' Bollywood siren's nude shoot was once national issue, her career ended in a drug racket, later became a sadhvi

Mamta Kulkarni made her Bollywood debut in 1992 with Tirangaa and made her mark with Aashiq Awara the following year. She began to be noticed by the mid-90s with starring roles in hits like Krantiveer, Karan Arjun, and Sabse Bada Khiladi.

It was in 1993 that she first became controversy’s favourite child when posed topless on the cover of Stardust Magazine. The picture polarised everyone and became a raging controversy. The actress went one step ahead and did another bold shoot covered in paint a couple of years later

In 2013, Mamta reportedly married Vicky Goswami, a drug lord. In 2016, the actress was named as a co-accused in a Rs 2000-crore international drug racket in which Vicky was the mastermind. Mamta has denied the charges against her

In the mid-2010s, Mamta announced that she had become a yogini and she even authored a book titled Autobiography of an Yogini, chronicling her life journey

Mamta Kulkarni has not acted in films in over 20 years with her last appearance in 2003 Bangladeshi film Shesh Bongsodhar. She lives away from the limelight