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      • Shobhana Samarth (née Saroj Shilotri; 17 November 1916 – 9 February 2000) was an Indian director, actress and producer, who began her career in the early days of talkie movies in the Hindi film industry and continued in lead roles into the 1950s.
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  2. Shobhana Samarth (née Saroj Shilotri; 17 November 1916 – 9 February 2000) was an Indian director, actress and producer, who began her career in the early days of talkie movies in the Hindi film industry and continued in lead roles into the 1950s.

    • Career in Films
    • Personal Life
    • Director, Producer, Actor: Contributions to Cinema

    Back in those times, the industry wasn’t known by the name of Bollywood. It was still Hindi cinema industry in the making. Shobhna Samarth entered the industry in its initial phase where a woman’s role in a film was either performed by a sex worker or men who dressed up as women. Moreover, this profession was not highly paid or respected, neither w...

    She married Kumarsen Samarth and the couple had four children; three daughters – Nutan, Tanuja, Chatura and a son – Jaideep. Nutan and Tanuja joined the profession of acting, whereas Chatura became an artist. Nutan and Shobhna had a strained relationship for over two decades. The duo reconciled towards the last days of Nutan’s life when she was dia...

    After acting as a lead actress in more than 50 films, she eventually became a producer and set up Shobhna Films. She directed two movies: Hamari Beti (1950) and Chhabili (1960) in which she launched her daughters Nutan and Tanuja. Dwelling in times when cinema was a budding industry which was largely not accepting of female presence, Shobhna Samart...

  3. Her mother, Shobhana Samarth, was a popular actor who introduced both her daughters in the film Hamari Beti (1950) which she directed herself.

  4. Shobhna Samarth was an Indian film actress and director who worked in Hindi and Marathi films. She was born in Bombay, British India, on 17 November 1916. She was the daughter of film producer and director V. Shantaram and actress Jayashree.

    • 84 years old
    • Saroj Shilotri
    • actress,director
    • Scorpio
  5. Feb 9, 2000 · Shobhna Samarth was a noted Marathi and Bollywood actress during 1940’s and 1950’s. But she is better known as the mother of great actresses, Nutan and Tanuja and grandmother of super successful actress of today, Kajol, Tanisha (daughters of Tanuja) and Monish Behl (Son of Nutan) are also her grandchildren.

  6. Shobhna Samarth was veteran actor Tanuja's mom, and is known for her role in Bharat Milap and Ram Rajya, in which she played Sita. Kajol has shared a magazine cover of her grandmother...

  7. Shobhna Samarth was born on November 17, 1916 in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India. She was an actress and director, known for Do Diwane (1936), Be Kharab Jan (1936) and Naukar (1943). She was married to Kumarsen Samarth. She died on February 9, 2000 in Pune, Maharashtra, India.