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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. Early life. She was born in a Marathi-speaking Brahmin family, in Dharwad, Karnataka. Her father was an English literature professor.
Jul 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, died on Monday at a hospital in ...
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.
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, ending the review of her performance with just that.
Sep 9, 2022 · B efore Nirupa Roy and Lalita Pawar, actress Leela Chitnis embraced the long-suffering, self-sacrificing ‘elderly mother’ archetype in Indian cinema. Films such as Raj Kapoor’s Awaara (1951), Bimal Roy’s Maa (1952) or Dev Anand’s runaway hit Guide (1965) epitomise her role as Bollywood’s maternal figure.. Called ‘The Duchess of Depression’, her overarching image was of a mother who would “cough consumptively”, and “gobble spoonfuls of syrup from bottles perched so ...
Leela Chitnis has the distinction of becoming the first Indian film star to endorse the Lux brand of soaps – a product that till then only was being endorsed only by Hollywood heroines. By the end of the 1940s, she knew that her time as a leading lady was up. Chitnis changed track and started playing the role of the long-suffering mother of the hero.
One of cinema's earliest educated ladies, Leela Chitnis captured her life in her autobiography Chanderi Duniyet.Born in a Marathi-speaking household in Karwar, Karnataka, she made a name for ...
Leela Chitnis, actress: born Dharwar, India 9 September 1909; twice married (three sons, and one son and one daughter deceased); died Danbury, Connecticut 14 July 2003.
Leela Chitnis was an Indian actress who primarily worked in the Hindi film industry. In her early years, she starred as a romantic lead, but she is best known for her later roles playing a virtuous and upright mother to leading stars. In the 1930s, the well-educated Leela Chitnis became a star due to her starring roles in a number of Bombay Talkies opposite Ashok Kumar. The young actress was a mother and divorcee and earned the honour of being the first Indian to endorse the soap Lux in ...
Jul 17, 2003 · Leela Chitnis, 93, a star in the early days of India's Bollywood when actresses were looked down upon as prostitutes, died Monday in a care facility in Danbury, Conn., of complications from a fall.
