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Rasika Joshi is a Actor and Scriptwriter Indian born on 12 september 1972 at Mumbai (Inde)

Rasika Joshi

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Nationality Inde
Birth 12 september 1972 at Mumbai (Inde)
Death 7 july 2011 (at 38 years) at Mumbai (Inde)

Rasika Joshi (12 September 1972 – 7 July 2011) was a noted Marathi and Hindi film actress. A celebrated Marathi theatre and Indian television actress, she was known for Maharashtrian roleplays in Bollywood movies.

Biography

Rasika was born in a Marathi Brahmin family and was married to Girish Joshi, director and actor.

Usually with

Rajpal Yadav
Rajpal Yadav
(10 films)
Rajpal Yadav
Rajpal Yadav
(10 films)
Asrani
Asrani
(6 films)
Priyadarshan
Priyadarshan
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Rasika Joshi (21 films)

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Actress

Kushti
Kushti (2010)

Directed by T. K. Rajeev Kumar
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Rajpal Yadav, The Great Khali, Rajpal Yadav, Om Puri, Sharat Saxena, Asrani
Rating45% 2.289452.289452.289452.289452.28945
The film Kushti is the story of a small village in Northern India where wrestling is a popular sport and an important wrestling match is held every year. Every year rivals Avtar Singh (Sharat Saxena) and Jiten Singh (Om Puri) try to beat each other in the wrestling match and gain the trusteeship of the village. Chander (Rajpal Yadav) plays the role of a village simpleton and a post-master.
Thanks Maa
Thanks Maa (2010)

Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Alok Nath, Rasika Dugal, Raghubir Yadav, Sanjay Mishra, Ranvir Shorey, Mukta Barve
Rating79% 3.979393.979393.979393.979393.97939
A 12-year-old street kid named Municipality, while on the run from the reformatory, finds and saves a two-day-old abandoned child from being prey to a ferocious street dog. Failing to find any takers among the people he deemed responsible & respectable, Municipality takes up the onus of finding the child's mother himself. Here onwards ensues his struggle in the urban jungle of Mumbai with just four of his friends from the streets - Soda (15), Sursuri (10), Cutting (8), & Dhed-shaana (6).
Billu
Billu (2009)
, 2h17
Directed by Priyadarshan
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Irrfan Khan, Lara Dutta, Shahrukh Khan, Om Puri, Rajpal Yadav, Asrani
Roles Principal Gahalot
Rating63% 3.199773.199773.199773.199773.19977
Billu (Irrfan Khan) is a poor barber who lives with his wife Bindiya (Lara Dutta) and their two children, Gunja (Mitali Mayakar) and Ronak (Pratik Dalvi) in the village of Budbuda. He also spends time with his close friends Budbudiya (Rajpal Yadav) and Naubat Chacha (Asrani). Though struggling, Billu lives an uneventful life until Bollywood superstar Sahir Khan (Shahrukh Khan) comes to the village for a film shoot.
Blue Oranges
Actors Rajit Kapur, Harsh Chhaya, Shishir Sharma, Siddhant Karnick, Aham Sharma, Rati Agnihotri
Rating63% 3.192113.192113.192113.192113.19211
The film is a crime, suspense thriller where Rajit Kapur plays the role of the detective Nilesh. Nilesh has to investigate the murder of a rich alcoholic woman (Pooja Kanwal). He investigates a bunch of suspects such as the murdered woman’s ex-lover (Aham Sharma), the tenant's son, a rich-brat who gave the woman a lift and the police commissioner's own brother (Harsh Chhaya) who had befriended her, before arriving at the truth. The film is shot in a flashback-and-forth mode of storytelling.
De Taali
De Taali (2008)

Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Aftab Shivdasani, Ayesha Takia, Ritesh Deshmukh, Rimi Sen, Anupam Kher, Satish Shah
Roles Mrs. Moolchand Nahata
Rating42% 2.115942.115942.115942.115942.11594
Abhishek 'Abhi' (Aftab Shivdasani), Paglu (Ritesh Deshmukh) and Amrita 'Amu' (Ayesha Takia) are best friends since childhood. Abhi's father (Anupam Kher) is a very rich businessman, and his only son has no interest in work. Abhi has had many girlfriends, but none of them lasted long. Paglu and Abhi's father tells Amu to marry Abhi because they know each other very well. One day Abhi comes and tells Amu that he loves someone that is his childhood friend; Amu thinks that she is the girl whom Abhi loves and she, too, falls in love with him.
Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag, 2h44
Directed by Ram Gopal Varma
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime, Western
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Mohanlal, Ajay Devgn, Sushmita Sen, Rajpal Yadav, Priyanka Kothari
Rating14% 0.7064450.7064450.7064450.7064450.706445
Nasik-based Heerendra Dhaan (Ajay Devgan) and Raj Ranade (Prashant Raj Sachdev) are bodyguards of a politician but, after their employer is implicated in a scam, they end up assaulting a police officer and flee to Mumbai. Once there they meet with Rambhabhai (Rajpal Yadav), who in turn, gets them employed with a gangster named Shambhu. After a short while the duo are apprehended by Police Inspector Narsimha, questioned, and after they agree to cooperate to bring down Shambhu, are let go. The two succeed in assisting the police arrest Shambhu, but they themselves are arrested, tried in Court, and sentenced to a year in jail.
Bhool Bhulaiyaa, 2h34
Directed by Priyadarshan
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Comedy horror films, Bollywood
Actors Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Shiney Ahuja, Ameesha Patel, Paresh Rawal, Asrani
Roles Janki Upadhyay
Rating73% 3.697673.697673.697673.697673.69767
Badri (Manoj Joshi) heads a Brahmin family whose ancestral palace is believed to be haunted by the ghost of Manjulika, a Bengali odissi dancer. Siddharth (Shiney Ahuja) and Avni (Vidya Balan), the son and daughter-in-law of Badri's elder brother, return to their native village from America and decide to stay in their ancestral palace. Here, Siddharth is crowned as the king, his right to the throne.
Dhol
Dhol (2007)

Directed by Priyadarshan
Genres Comedy
Actors Sharman Joshi, Tusshar Kapoor, Kunal Khemu, Rajpal Yadav, Tanushree Dutta, Rajpal Yadav
Roles Landlady
Rating64% 3.248883.248883.248883.248883.24888
Pankaj (Sharman Joshi), Sameer (Tusshar Kapoor), Martand (Rajpal Yadav) and Gautam (Kunal Khemu) are bound together by their ambition to make it big in life with the least effort possible. Each one tries his hand at finding a short cut to success but ends up being in even deeper trouble. Things get worse when the four decide to take some desperate measures to end their misery once and for all.
Go
Go (2007)

Genres Crime, Romance
Actors Priyanka Kothari, Kay Kay Menon, Rajpal Yadav, Rajpal Yadav, Anant Jog, Govind Namdev
Rating33% 1.6603851.6603851.6603851.6603851.660385
Abhay (Gautam Gupta) and Vasundhara (Priyanka Kothari) are neighbors who are in love. Due to strong opposition from their parents, they decide to elope to Goa. Meanwhile, Chief Minister Arjun Patil (Ravi Kale) has his Deputy Chief Minister Praveen Deshpande (Govind Namdeo) murdered, planning of which is audio-taped by his assistant Bihari. Bihari then decides to blackmail the Chief Minister (CM), whose men eventually kill Bihari but not before he drops the tape in Abhay and Vasundhara's car. This leads to the couple being chased by CM's goons and Inspector Nagesh Rao (Kay Kay Menon), who wants to get hold of the tape in order to exhort money from the CM.
Johnny Gaddaar, 2h
Directed by Sriram Raghavan
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actors Neil Nitin Mukesh, Rimi Sen, Vinay Pathak, Dharmendra, Zakir Hussain, Govind Namdev
Roles Shiva's mother
Rating78% 3.9473.9473.9473.9473.947
The film starts out on a rainy night with a conversation between four cops in a police van, patrolling the streets of Mumbai. A car narrowly misses colliding into them on the road, brakes and then continues on towards a house with iron gates. A man in a jacket gets out from the car, heads towards the garage and opens the roller shutter door when he is shot from behind multiple times. In the same time the cops in the van receive an alert on the radio that gunshots have been heard somewhere in the vicinity and they ask the driver to head towards the location of the gunshots.
Darna Zaroori Hai, 1h48
Directed by Ram Gopal Varma, Manish Gupta, J. D. Chakravarthy, Sajid Khan, Sajid Khan
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Arjun Rampal, Manoj Pahwa, Anil Kapoor, Sarita Joshi, Mallika Sherawat
Roles Murdered Woman's Mother-in-Law
Rating54% 2.7011052.7011052.7011052.7011052.701105
Darna Zaroori Hai interweaves six stories into one film. Five children get lost in the middle of a forest until they find a haunted house. Inside, there is an old woman who agrees to tell them six scary stories, and they will all compete on who is able to sit through all six stories without getting scared.
Malamaal Weekly, 2h40
Directed by Priyadarshan
Origin Inde
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Paresh Rawal, Om Puri, Ritesh Deshmukh, Reema Sen, Rajpal Yadav, Sudha Chandran
Roles Mary
Rating69% 3.4966753.4966753.4966753.4966753.496675
The film takes place in the impoverished village of Laholi where, following droughts, most of the villagers' possessions are mortgaged to the local Thakurani Karamkali (Sudha Chandran). One of the few entertainments the villagers can afford is the lottery, Malaamal Weekly (malaamal is Hindi for 'rich').
Khabardar
Khabardar (2006)

Directed by Mahesh Kothare
Genres Thriller, Comedy
Actors Bharat Jadhav, Sanjay Narvekar, Nirmiti Sawant, Kishori Godbole, Rasika Joshi, Mahesh Kothare
Roles Maruti's Mother
Rating68% 3.42373.42373.42373.42373.4237
Bharat is a crime reporter at newspaper daily Khabardaar. His boss Gauri assigns him with the task to gather a sensational report on escaped prisoner Anna Chimbori. Maruti is a simple truck driver. Unbeknownst to him he becomes the witness to the murder the prisoner commits. But in unexpected turn of events, Maruti Kamble is accused for a murder and has to run for his life .The only person who can help him is the crime reporter Bharat. Maruti then teams up with Bharat to uncover the truth and bring Anna to justice.