Dolly Minhas

Dolly Mattoo (née Minhas) (born 8 February 1968) is an Indian actress and former model, well known for winning the Miss India Universe contest in 1988. She has acted in Hindi, Punjabi, and Kannada films. She has also worked in Hindi TV shows such as Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? Ek Baar Phir and Choti Sarrdaarni. During the 1990s, she worked in negative shades in Mukesh Khanna's popular serial Mahayoddha as Rajkumari Bijli and in Shaktimaan as Shaliyaa - Catwoman; considered as India's first actress to play Catwoman (including Ashwini Kalsekar, whom with she shared the screen as her elder sister). She is currently acting in Shaadi Mubarak as Kushala Tibrewal. She belongs to Punjab and was raised in Chandigarh. She fell in love with the director of her first film, Anil Mattoo, whom she eventually married. She later acted in some Punjabi and Kannada films and Hindi TV serials.