NALINI JAYANT , HINDI ACTRESS BORN FEBRUARY 18-19 ,1926
NALINI JAYANT , HINDI ACTRESS BORN FEBRUARY 18-19 ,1926 Jaywant was born in Mumbai (then Bombay) in 1926. She was first cousin of actress Shobhna Samarth, the mother of actresses Nutan and Tanuja.[1] Since 1983, she had been living mostly a reclusive life.[2] She was married to director Virendra Desai in the 1940s. Later, she married her second husband, actor Prabhu Dayal, with whom she acted in several movies.[3] Nalini Jaywant died on 20 December 2010, aged 84, at her bungalow of 60 years at Union Park, Chembur, Mumbai. In her teens, appeared in Mehboob Khan's Bahen (1941), a film about a brother's obsessive love for his sister. The movie had strong shades of incest. She performed in a few more movies before filming Anokha Pyaar (1948). In 1950, she garnered fame when she became a top star with her performances opposite Ashok Kumar in Samadhi and Sangram. Samadhi was a patriotic drama concerning Subhas Chandra Bose and the Indian National Army. Al...