Kimi Katkar

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Kimi Katkar was a popular Indian actress from the eighties and the early nineties. The Jumma Chumma girl, Kimi Katkar was a successful model before she turned to films and her first role that got her attention (in her wet white dress) was in the Indian version of ‘Tarzan’ with rubber crocodiles, plastic snakes and stuffed lions, and a stuffy Tarzan. She then did some really significant roles in well to do films. Her next big break came when she was cast opposite an angry young persona of Amitabh Bachchan as Jumma in ‘Hum’. The hugely popular song Jumma Chumma from the same movie gave a boost to her career. After doing some more singing-dancing routines in Govinda's films, as well as acting opposite Vinod Khanna in films such as Ustad and acting along with stars Sanjay Dutt and Anil Kapoor she retired from Bollywood and married ace photographer and ad-filmmaker Shantanu Sheorey.

Acting along with other Huge Mega Stars other than Govinda she did become a more successful actress, however she was failed to be recognized as one of the One Hundred Greatest Stars of Hindi Cinema.

She was popularly noted to be the ex-girlfriend of Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt.

A non-published news source in June of 1991 says that she is the Daughter of the old YesterYears BollyWood Actress NIMMI of the Late Forties, through out the Fifties and early Sixties,"although her face does resemble".

Their is no other source that states this, perhaps an Old Bollywood Magazine during Kimi Katkar's time as an actress,"still the statement remains her face does resemble NIMMI.

It was reported some time back on March 20th 2001 that the former actress had agreed to do a lifestyle cum food show on the small screen co-hosted by Karen Anand.