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Leela Chitnis. Leela Chitnis ( née Nagarkar; 9 September 1909 – 14 July 2003) was an Indian actress in the Indian film industry, active from 1930s to 1980s. In her early years she starred as a romantic lead, but she is best remembered for her later roles playing a virtuous and upright mother to leading stars. [2]
Jul 17, 2003 · By Douglas Martin. July 17, 2003. Leela Chitnis, an actress whose half-century-long 40-film career in India progressed from romantic roles to the motherly ones for which she is best remembered ...
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Leela Chitnis. Leela Chitnis ( née Nagarkar; 9 September 1909 – 14 July 2003) was an actress in the Indian film industry, active from 1930s to 1980s. In her early years she starred as a romantic lead, but she is best remembered for her later roles playing a virtuous and upright mother to leading stars. [2]
Leela Chitnis was born on 9 September 1909 in Dharwad, Bombay Presidency, British India. She was an actress and director, known for Kangan (1939), Sadhna (1958) and Chhaya (1936). She was married to Dr. Gajanan Yeshwant Chitnis.
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- Dharwad, Bombay Presidency, British India
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Jan 15, 2024 · Leela Chitnis, a victim of the ‘ageing woman,’ trope The anxiety surrounding an ‘ageing ,’ actress playing the leading lady rose strongly towards the mid-1940s when she was only in her 30s; one review of Balu Dalmania’s ‘Ghar Ghar ki Kahani ,’ even felt the need to say that she came across as the hero’s mother in the film ...
Leela Chitnis: A lady who spoke with her eyes. She was Raj Kapoor's falsely-accused-of-infidelity mother in Awaara; Dilip Kumar's falsely-accused-of-theft matriarch in Ganga Jamuna and Dev Anand's ...
Jul 14, 2003 · Leela Chitnis Biography. Leela Chitnis (née Nagarkar; 9 September 1909 – 14 July 2003) was an Indian actress in the Indian film industry, active from the 1930s to the 1980s. In her early years she starred as a romantic lead, but she is best remembered for her later roles playing a virtuous and upright mother to leading stars.
