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Komal Mahuvakar (famously known as Rupini / Roopini / Rubini) is an Indian actress who worked in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She acted in Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam films opposite stars including Rajinikanth, Kamal Hassan, Sathyaraj, Vijayakanth, Dr.Vishnuvardhan, Ravichandran, Mohan, Mammootty, and Mohanlal.

Rupini, originally from Mumbai, moved to the south to act in films after late 1980\'s. Earlier she acted in few Hindi movies, doing character roles under her real name Komal Mahuvakar. \'Des Pardes\', \'Payal Ki Jhankaar\', \'Meri Adalat\', \'Sanch Ko Aanch Nahin\' and \'Nache Mayuri\' are some of her films in Hindi.

Mahuvakar was born in Mumbai to a lawyer father and a doctor mother. She started to learn dancing at the age of four from Lachhu Maharaj in Mumbai. She learnt all the forms of classical dances including Bharathanatyam, Kuchipudi, Odissi and Kathak in a short span of time.She was accidentally spotted by film-maker Hrishikesh Mukherjee who offered her child actor roles in his films such as Mili, Kotwal Saab and Khoobsurat. She made her lead role debut in the 1980 released film Payal Ki Jhankaar at the age of 19. Thereafter she appeared in many Bollywood films before entering the South Indian films through Manithan (1989) opposite Rajinikanth.

Soon after her marriage, Rupini quit films and concentrated on her family based at Chembur. She started a heart hospital at Chembur for ailing patients and named it Universal Heart Hospital.