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.