The scandals or actress Mandakini
We all know Mandakini from two things- Ram Teri Ganga Maili where she e*posed a lot and due to her association with Dawood Ibrahim, but she had so many controversies related to her personal life and her relation with the Kapoor family, as well as her controversy with Aditya Pancholi.
First scandal was regarding his family itself. According to reports Yasmin Joseph (her real name) was an il**gitimate daughter of Munni and Mr Joseph. So the husband of Munni used to work in a bungalow but Munni were dismissed from work because of her bad character. She met a man named Joseph who claimed to be a rich man (which he was not) living in a bungalow (which was rented). Munni shifted to the bungalow with her children and her husband worked in the same premise as a gardener. Eventually Mr Joseph’s facade came out and the family suffered financially for a long time till Mandakini got RTGM. Even then the Kapoor clan was fed up of the behaviour of the family and never worked with her again.
Fight over money - Mandakini’s family had a lot of fights with multiple people over money. When Mandakini started her film career she didn't had the money for a portfolio. JP Singhal got her portfolio done and introduced her to many filmmakers spending his own money. He claimed that the family owed him 75000 rs which they neither paid nor acknowledged. Similarly during the success party of Ram Teri Ganga Maili, Joseph fought with Rishi Kapoor over money issues because he felt that the Kapoors have not given her any share of profit in the monumental success of RTGM. This fight escalated to first fight. Afterwards Mandakini threatened to walk off from the film Hawaalat in which she starred opposite Rishi. Eventually the fight was resolved and she stayed in the film.
The AMA production fiasco- Ajit Devani was the secretary of Mandakini. Along with Aditya Pancholi these three established a production house AMA production which was named after the three individuals (Aditya, Mandakini, Ajit) and they were supposed to start a film called Naamcheen. Ajit took a lot of money from Mandakini but didn't get any dates for the film. He also made he esign roles that she didn't wanted to do to find their films, like her cameo in Tezaab. Eventually Mandakini found out that they have shot Naamcheen without her. Mandakini lost millions and didn't even get the credit because she gave money in faith of her secretary who duped her and made the film under his name. She blasted both Ajit and Aditya Pancholi in the press. However Naamcheen failed badly at the box office so nobody really profited from this fiasco.