Mahima Chaudhary, born on 13 September 1973, is remembered as a very attractive actress of Hindi cinema. Mahima Chaudhary’s debut in Hindi cinema also happened in a very interesting manner.
Successful Hindi cinema director Subhash Ghai was making his film “Pardes”. Earlier in the year 1995, Trimurti was produced by Subhash Ghai’s banner Mukta Arts. Subhash Ghai was the producer in Trimurti. The direction of the film was the responsibility of Mukul Anand. The film featured big names like Anil Kapoor, Shahrukh Khan and Jackie Shroff. The film also got good success at the box office on the first day of its release. But in the coming days, the film’s business and reactions were not positive. Due to this, the film did not get the response that Subhash Ghai wanted. The film flopped and people started questioning Subhash Ghai’s career. Keeping all this aside, Subhash Ghai started his new film.
When the story of the film was written, it was time to cast the characters. Subhash Ghai wanted to cast new actors in the film. He wanted new faces to be seen in the film. On the contrary, Subhash Ghai’s team believed that only big and established actors should be cast in the film, otherwise the film would not find buyers. While Subhash Ghai’s team remained adamant on including Shahrukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit and Salman Khan in the film, Subhash Ghai had decided that he would make the film with new faces at any cost. There was a solid reason behind this decision. The reason was that according to the story written by Subhash Ghai, the character of the actress was of an innocent, naive girl. Whereas due to Madhuri Dixit’s stardom, it was very difficult to bring that innocence and innocence alive on screen and make the audience believe it. Therefore, Subhash Ghai had decided that he would give a chance to a new actress instead of a big star. A new girl will play the character of Ganga in the film. Since Subhash Ghai was the captain of the ship, his opinion was accepted.
When Subhash Ghai started casting Ganga, many faces came before him. But he did not see a glimpse of Ganga in anyone. In this connection, Mahima Chaudhary reached Subhash Ghai’s office. Till then Mahima Chaudhary used to do advertising films, modeling etc. When Subhash Ghai and Mahima Chaudhary met, initially Subhash Ghai was not impressed. Mahima Chaudhary was wearing glasses then. But after taking off the glasses, when Subhash Ghai interviewed Mahima Chaudhary, Mahima Chaudhary laughed out loud at some special thing. The love and innocence that Subhash Ghai wanted in the character of Ganga was reflected in the eyes of Mahima Chaudhary. Apart from this, Mahima Chaudhary’s height was short. Seeing Mahima Chaudhary’s laugh, eyes and height, Subhash Ghai decided that Mahima would play the role of Ganga. In this way, Mahima Chaudhary took her first step in Hindi cinema and was awarded the Filmfare Award for “Best Female Debut” for her very first film.