Ashwini was born in the Marathi-speaking family Bhave family on May
7th. Her family are Koknastha Brahmins.
She acted in a number of Marathi language movies, before graduating to
Bollywood in 1991 with 'Henna'. She is a versatile actresses and has
been a lead as well as a character actress. Her career spanned from the
mid-eighties through onto 1998.
After getting married to software engineer, Kishore Bopadikar, she quit
acting, relocated to San Fransico, USA, where she subsequently gave
birth to two children.
Starred in the shelved movie Genius Films "Aastha"(1993) Starring Ashwini Bhave,Mohan Bhandari, Shreeram Lagoo, Rohini Hattangadi, Arun Dutt, Music by Hriydanath Mangeshkar, Directed by Anuradha Joshi.