Madhu Kambikar is an Indian performing folk art artist, theatre actor and film and TV personality, from Maharashtra. Kambikar went onto establish herself as one of the leading actress of the 80s. In a career spanning over four decades, she has worked in over 75 films and has received several accolades including a Filmfare Marathi Award and six Maharashtra State Film Awards.
She was born in Malegaon, a village in Beed district, 28 July 1953 in the Kolhati community. She dropped out of school and used to follow her father himself a performing artist to shows. She herself became a performer at a very young age. She is the aunt of the late Kishor Shantabai Kale.
On 27 November 2016, she fell unconscious on stage during a lavani-tamasha performance at Yashwant Natya Mandir, Matunga and was hospitalised.
She acted in about a dozen folk plays, including:
She has acted in 22âÂÂ25 contemporary plays, amongst them are: