Her father, Lt. Cdr.

Vijay Kumar Shahane, was an officer in the Indian Navy.

Her mother, Shanta Gokhale, is a theatre personality and film critic who works mainly on Marathi theatre.

When Renuka was very young, her mother divorced her father and married Arun Khopkar, a film-maker.

The second marriage also ended in divorce, after which Shanta Gokhale began a long-term friendship with Jerry Pinto, also a film journalist like her.

Xaviers College and her Post graduation in Clinical Psychology from Mumbai University.

Her first marriage was to Vijay Kenkare, a Marathi theater writer and director, but the marriage did not last long and they were soon divorced.

She then married Ashutosh Rana (original name Ashutosh Neekhra), who is also a Bollywood actor.

They have two sons, namely Shauryaman Neekhra and Satyendra Neekhra.

She then worked as one of the two anchors of the vastly popular Hindi language TV show, Surabhi, and this is what made her a household name.

Her broad smile became a byword for charm in the era when Doordarshan was the only TV channel in India, and Renuka was certainly one of the most popular TV personalities of the 1980s.

Adapted from her mother Shanta Gokhale s novel, Rita Welingkar, 16 Renuka plays the pivotal role of a friend, guide and philosopher of Rita, the protagonist.

Rita had Jackie Shroff, Pallavi Joshi, Suhasini Mulay and Mohan Agashe in the cast.

She also acted in a Telugu movie Money, produced by Ram Gopal Varma, which was a big hit.

She portrayed the love interest of then relatively unknown Shah Rukh Khan s character.

Her role as a strong-willed woman in another television serial, Imtihaan was widely appreciated.

Tribhanga is Renuka Shahanes first Hindi directorial debut starer Kajol, Tanvi Azmi, Mithila Palkar, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Vaibhav Tatwawaadi, Manav Gohil, Kanwaljeet Singh, Shweta Mehendale, Nishank Verma.

Highest-grossing Indian movie Hum Aapke Hain Koun.

India, 1994) took over 63.8 million in its first year.

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