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    Lalita Pawar (née Amba Laxmanrao Shagun; 18 April 1916 – 24 February 1998) was a prolific Indian actress, who later became famous as a character actress, appearing in over 700 films in Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati cinema.

    • Started Her Career in Bollywood at The Age of 9
    • An Accident That Changed Her Life
    • The Drastic Change in Her Career
    • When Her Younger Sister Became Her Sautan and Destroyed Her First Marriage
    • Death Due to Mouth Cancer

    Lalita Pawar was born on April 18, 1916, in a well-to-do, silk business family. Her name when she was born was Amba Laxman Rao, which was later on changed to Lalita. She was so fascinated with acting that once she had gone to a film studio and had asked the director to photograph her so that she can see herself on the screen. Well, her dream had co...

    While her career was going smooth and she was gaining popularity, God had different plans for her. An accident on the set had changed her life forever. It was in the year 1942, when during the shooting of her film, Jung-E-Azadi,for a sequence, her co-star, actor, Bhagwan Dada had to slap her and things fell off the place then. Unfortunately, the ac...

    While initially, she was offered lead roles, post-accident and treatment, she was offered character roles. Rather than giving up, Lalita had taken every opportunity given to her and had acted as a supporting character in many films, making a strong comeback. During this phase, she was offered the roles of a strict mother-in-law and of the likes, th...

    Despite the adversities, she still had a grip on her career, however, her personal life had started slipping out of her hands. Despite climbing the success ladder in her career, she had faced betrayal in her personal life by none other than her younger sister. It was in the mid-1930s when Lalita Pawar had tied the knot with the filmmaker, Ganpatrao...

    After her second wedding, Lalita was diagnosed with mouth cancer and she had shifted to Pune. The veteran actress had then started believing that she is suffering in her life because of all the negative characters she has portrayed. It was on February 24, 1998, that Lalita had breathed her last at her Pune bungalow. At that moment, she was all alon...

  3. May 4, 2020 · Lalita Pawar, who played the role of Manthara in Ramanand Sagar's Ramayan, had many successes to boast of during her lifetime. It includes her work in the epic serial and several films such as Shri 420, Dahej, Netaji Palkar, Anari etc.

  4. www.imdb.com › name › nm0667985Lalita Pawar - IMDb

    Lalita Pawar. Actress: Anari. With seventy years in the film businesses, Lalita Pawar's long career began as a child in the silent era and continued into leading lady roles, but she is best remembered for her years as a character actor.

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    • Pune, Maharashtra, India
  5. Lalita Pawar (née Amba Laxmanrao Shagun; 18 April 1916 – 24 February 1998) was a prolific Indian actress, who later became famous as a character actress, appearing in over 700 films in Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati cinema.

  6. Feb 24, 2024 · In fact, Lalita Pawar appeared in India’s first talkies film Raja Harishchandra. In a career spanning more than 70 years she played them all, the good bad and the ugly. But she is remembered largely for her scheming mother-in-law parts and as evil Manthara in Ramanand Sagar’s serial Ramayan.

  7. Apr 18, 2019 · A+. New Delhi: She was the quintessential evil mother-in-law of Hindi films, who was loathed in every household. Even today, any ‘evil’ mother-in-law is termed Lalita Pawar. But, Pawar was not always the diabolic, slit-eyed woman that she made so popular on screen.