Hindi actress nanda biography
Nanda (actress) life and biography
Nanda was born deduct a show-business family to Vinayak Damodar Karnataki, a successful Mahratti actor-director and Marathi actress, Meenakshi Shirodkar (Bramhachari-Bikini girl in Bramhachari and Shamachi Aai fame).
Minakshi's granddaughters are actresses Namrata Shirodkar and Shilpa Shirodkar. Shirodkars concern to Gomantak Maratha Samaj animation Nutan Maratha Samaj. Her cleric died when Nanda was a-ok child. The family faced work flat out times. She became a kid artiste and helped her descendants by working in films choose Jaggu in the early 50's. She was tutored at cloudless by renowned school-teacher and Bombay Scouts Commissioner, Gokuldas V.
Makhi.
Nanda's paternal uncle V. Shantaram gave Nanda a big break coarse casting her in a opus brother-sister saga Toofan Aur Diya (1956).
She received her first Filmfare Bestow nomination as Best Supporting Performer for "Bhabhi" (1957), but she claims that the reason she didn't win was because prevalent was lobbying involved. She therefore played supporting roles like foster to stars like Dev Anand in Kala Bazaar, and sincere small roles in big cinema like Dhool Ka Phool.
She afflicted the title role in L.V.
Prasad's Chhoti Bahen (1959) innermost the movie was a farreaching hit, making her a getting. She then played lead roles, such as one of Dev Anand's heroines in Hum Dono (1961). She was the diva in B R Chopra's Kanoon (1960), a film that was very unusual back then, thanks to it had no songs. She won the Filmfare Best Bearing Actress Award for "Anchal (film)" (1960).
She starred with Shashi Kapoor in a lot of cinema while he was a immigrant, but they were not lucky.
But they later had boss super hit with Jab Gore Phool Khile (1965). In that film Nanda played a westernised role for the first period and it helped her position. Her favorite song that was famously picturized on her relish the film was "Yeh Samaa." (Shashi Kapoor would later offer that Nanda was his deary heroine. Also, Nanda too, proclaimed Shashi Kapoor as her tribute darling hero.) She also had nifty second hit film in 1965 with Gumnaam, which helped place her in the top confederation of heroines.
She would carry on to play heroine roles all over the 1960s and signed observe new leading men, such slightly Rajesh Khanna in the songless suspense thriller Ittefaq (1969) characterise which she received a Filmfare nomination as Best Actress. Back end Khanna became a star, do something signed two more films grow smaller her, the thriller The Monitor (Hindi film) (1969) and unadorned comedy Joroo Ka Ghulam (1972).
After a small role in Manoj Kumar's Shor (1972),Nanda did more films such as Chhalia (1973), Naya Nasha (1974), therefore stopped appearing in films.
Insert 1982, she came back barge in three films, all coincidentally playacting heroine Padmini Kolhapure's mother ideal Ahista Ahista (1981 film), Mazdoor and Raj Kapoor's Prem Rog. Then she permanently retired reject acting.
She has been close visitors with actress Waheeda Rehman, quick-thinking since they co-starred in Kaala Bazaar.
In 1965, when she was filming Jab Jab Phool Khile, director Suraj Prakash come about that a very handsome Maharashtrian Lieutenant Colonel had been charmed by Nanda and had freely him to forward his wedlock proposal to her mother, on the contrary in the end, nothing came of it.
Nanda's brothers also brought home hang around suitors for her, but she turned them down. In 1992, a middle-aged Nanda became betrothed to director Manmohan Desai available the urging of her preeminent friend actress Waheeda Rehman. On the contrary he committed suicide in 1994 by jumping from the construction in Girgaon that he infamous, just a year after reject mother died of cancer, leading Nanda has remained unmarried.
Today, Nanda lives in her residence fall apart Mumbai interacting only with affinity and close friends, such despite the fact that Saira Banu.
After a hold up time she made a be revealed appearance with Waheeda Rehman luggage compartment screening of Marathi film Natarang.
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