Meenal Patel is a well know Indian TV actress. She was born on 14 December 1957 in Surat Gujarat. She was born in Musician family as her father and grandfather both are a musicians. Meenal has been acting in theatre for last 50 years. She has performed in Gujarati, Hindi, English and also one Marathi play. She has featured in mainstream as well as experimental.
Some of the serials in which we can see Meenal are NDTV Imagine show ‘Har Jeet’, Colors channel show and ‘Basera’ on Star Plus. She also appeared in movies ‘Filhaal..’, ‘After the Weeding ’ and ‘Susman’.
She played the role of ‘Dadi’ in ‘Har Jeet’. The producers of the show is Shashi Mittal and Sumeet Mittal. The main story line of the show is about two girls, having totally different background. One is a rich business man daughter and other one is from a poor family. Meenal played the role of dadi of the rich girl.
Mrs. Patel was also a part of Colors famous serial ‘Mukti Bandhan’. The story of the show is taken from famous Gujarati novel ‘Mukti Bandhan. Her role ‘Kesarba’ is one of the important character in the show. The story is about a normal man I M Virani with a great sense for business. Keserba is the mother of I M Virani. Mr. Virani becomes the most successful business tycoon with the help of her wife Charulata. Since Meenal is also Gujarati, her role of Kesarba is highly appreciated by the audience.
Meenal has done some one-woman acts as well as story-telling performances. She has done theatre for women's movement and has also written songs for the same. She has been a part of poetry recitation programs. Meenal has been on the advisory panel member of the Film Certification Board. She received an acting award for the role of Kasturba in the play 'Gandhi Viruddh Gandhi.
She has worked with many big directors, actors such as Amzad Khan, Shafi Inamdar, Dinesh Thakur, Kanti Madia, Pravin Joshi and many more…