Pallavi Joshi

Biography:  Pallavi Joshi is an Indian film and television actress. She started performing on stage at an early age. She acted in films like Badla and Aadmi Sadak Ka as a child artiste. She played a blind child who reforms a notorious gangster in Dada (1979). She was nominated for 'Best Supporting Actress' at the Filmfare Awards for her role as a handicapped girl in Andha Yudh (1988). She also won a Special Jury Award at the 41st National Film Awards for Woh Chokri (1992). She is also the recipient of Excellence In Cinema Award at 7th Global Film Festival Noida. She hosts a televised singing competition Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Marathi L'il Champs on Zee Marathi. She appeared as Kasturba Gandhi in Shyam Benegal's The Making of the Mahatma, (1995). Pallavi Joshi was nominated as a member of Film and Television Institute of India society but she refused to take up the position in view of the students' protest against appointment of actor and BJP member Gajendra Chauhan as the chief of the institute's governing council. She is married to Bollywood film maker Vivek Agnihotri and has two children. She is the sister of child actor Master Alankar (Joshi).