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Sonali Kulkarni is an Indian actress who has won several awards and nominations. She has received a National Film Award, four Filmfare Awards Marathi, two Maharashtra State Film Awards, a Screen Awards Marathi and two Zee Chitra Gaurav Puraskar.
After making her debut in 1992 with the Kannada film Cheluvi, Kulkarni received critical acclaim and the Maharashtra State Film Award and the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for Doghi (1995). Following year, she won the Grand Prix du Jury for Best Actor at the Valenciennes Adventure Film Festival for Amol Palekar's acclaimed film Daayraa (1996). In 2000, her portrayal of a foster mother in Mission Kashmir earned her several nominations, including Filmfare Awards, IIFA Awards, Screen Awards and Zee Cine Awards in the Best Actress Category. Kulkarni's portrayal of a proud woman, her beautiful redemption from an unfair societal insult, and her tragic bad luck in the short film Chaitra (2002) received a Special Mention – Non-Feature Film at the 49th National Film Awards. She won her first Screen Award Marathi and her second Maharashtra State Award for Devrai (2004), in which she played the sister of a man with schizophrenia who is battling to come to terms with his sickness. Her work in the Italian language film Fuoco Su di Me won her the Best Actress Award at the 2006 Milan International Film Festival. Following this, she starred in several movies, such as Taxi Number 9211 (2007), which earned nominations at the Stardust Awards and the Annual Central European Bollywood Awards.
In 2011, Kulkarni was seen in a brief role as an inspector's wife seeking justice for her husband's suicide in Singham, which received an IIFA Award nomination and Pratibimba, which won the Zee Chitra Gaurav Puraskar for Best Actress. Her performance as a real-life medical practitioner and social worker in the biopic Dr. Prakash Baba Amte-The Real Hero won her Suvarnaratna Awards and first Maharashtracha Favourite Kon for Best Actress. Kulkarni set the record for most Filmfare Marathi Award for Best Actress wins with three after earning the trophies for her performances in Dr. Prakash Baba Amte-The Real Hero and Kachcha Limboo (2017), and one Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress for her role of a widow in Pension (2021). For Kachcha Limboo, she also earned Sanskruti Kala Darpan Awards, Zee Cine Marathi Awards and the second Zee Chitra Gaurav Puraskar for Best Actress.
Along with acting awards, Kulkarni was honoured with the V. Shantaram Special Contribution Award for her overall contribution in 2015.