Ashwini Kalsekar  Ashwini Kalsekar is an Indian actress works mostly in Marathi television and film industry, later Hindi daily soaps and Known mostly for her collaboration with the famous directors Sriram Raghavan, Rohit Shetty and Ram Gopal Varma. She was noticed briefly in CID as Asha as a cop. Initially she started her career during 1999 popular science fiction comedy Zeetv serial Mr. Gayab in lead role, best known for her villainous roles as Shalaka Catwoman in kids Superhero serial Shaktimaan considered as first Indian Catwoman, Jigyasa Walia in Ekta Kapoor's soap opera "Kasamh Se", Sikka Thakuriaan in Afsar Bitiya and Saudamini, an evil witch in Kavach. She also became the judge in Marathi reality show "Fu bai fu". She was married to Nitesh Pandey, later they were divorced and she married Murali Sharma in 2009. In 2011, she debuted in Telugu industry like her husband with "Badrinath". In 2019, she debuted on web platform with Zee5 Webseries "Chargesheet: The Shuttlecock Murder" and Mxplayer Webseries "Cheesecake" as Chaaru an animal communicator which will premiere on December 2019. She has been in a part of the Golmaal series since the start. She will be next seen in "Laxxmi Bomb" in 2020. Ashwini Kalsekar was born in a Konkani Kokanasth Brahmin family of Goan ancestry on 22 January 1970 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Her father Anil Kalsekar was a bank employee. Ashwini studied her B.A. from Mumbai and graduated in 1991. She pursued theatre from 1991 to 1994 after her studies. From 1992 to 1993 she was studying under actress Neena Gupta to pursue her dream to be an actress. She is also trained under Muzammeel Vakil, a theatre acting coach from 1992 to 1995. Ashwini is also a trained Kathak dancer. Ashwini was married to Nitesh Pandey in 1998. They were divorced for unknown reasons in 2002. She married film and television character actor Murali Sharma in 2009. In 1996, Ashwini played a role in the Marathi film "Tula Jhapar La". This was followed by a number of films in Marathi where she appeared in supporting roles.