Sonali Kulkarni

Sonali Kulkarni is an actress from Pune, Maharashtra, India, who showed an early interest in acting and got a chance to perform during Ganesh Mahotsav celebrations. She studied at Abhinav Vidhyalaya and then at Ferguson College, where she chose Political Science as her major and won a scholarship in Marathi literature. A workshop with Satyadev Dubey led her to help start the theater group Samanvay. Her first screen role was in the Tamil movie Cheluvi, and she later acted in 32 films, among them the Italian production Fuoco Si Di Me. In addition to her film and stage work, she edited Viva, a Loksatta supplement, and wrote a weekly column titled So Kool.