Nalini Jaywant

Nalini Jaywant
Born	18 February 1926(1926-02-18) Bombay, British India
Died	20 December 2010(2010-12-20) (aged 84) Mumbai, India
Occupation	Actress

Nalini Jaywant (18 February 1926 – 20 December 2010) was an Indian movie actress from Bollywood in the 1940s and 1950s.

Personal life and education

Jaywant was born in Mumbai (then Bombay) in 1926. She is first cousin to actress Shobhna Samarth, the mother of actresses Nutan and Tanuja.^[1] Since 1983, she has 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.

Career

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 Subash Chandra Bose and the Indian National Army. Although the leading movie magazine of the day, Film India, called it "politically obsolete", it enjoyed success at the box office. Sangram was a crime drama in which Nalini played the heroine reforming the anti-hero. She and Ashok Kumar performed together in other films, such as Jalpari (1952), Kafila (1952), Naubahar (1952), Saloni (1952), Lakeeren (1954), Naaz (1954), Mr. X (1957), Sheroo (1957) and Toofan Mein Pyar Kahan (1963).

Nalini remained an important leading actress through the mid-1950s, appearing in such films as Rahi (1953), Shikast (1953), Railway Platform (1955)), Nastik (1954), Munimji (1955), and Hum Sab Chor Hain (1956). The 1958 film, Kaala Pani, directed by Raj Khosla, was Nalini's last successful movie, for which she won the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award. Bombay Race Course (1965) was the last film she made, aside from a 1983 film appearance.

Selected filmography

• Nastik (1983)
• Bombay Race Course (1965)
• Toofaan Mein Pyar Kahan (1963)
• Girls Hostel (1963)
• Zindagi Aur Hum (1962)
• Senapati (1961)
• Amar Rahe Ye Pyar(1961)
• Mukti(1960)
• Maa Ke Aansu(1959)
• Kaala Pani (1958)
• Milan (1958)
• Sheroo (1957)
• Mr. X (1957)
• Neelmani (1957)
• Miss Bombay (1957)
• Kitna Badal Gaya Insaan (1957)
• Hum Sab Chor Hain (1956)
• Durgesh Nandini (1956)
• Awaaz (1956)
• Insaaf (1956)
• Fifty Fifty (1956)
• Aan Baan (1956)
• 26 January 1950 (1956)
• Railway Platform (1955)
• Munimjee (1955)
• Rajkanya (1955)
• Chingari (1955)
• Nastik (1954)
• Kavi (1954)
• Baap Beti (1954)
• Naaz (1954)
• Lakirein (1954)
• Mehbooba (1954)
• Shikast (1953)
• Rahi (1953)
• Jalpari (1952)
• Saloni (1952)
• Kafila (1952)
• Naubahaar (1952)
• Do Raah (1952)
• Naujawan (1951)
• Jaadu (1951)
• Ek Nazar (1951)
• Nandkishor (1951)
• Sangram (1950)
• Samadhi (1950)
• Muqaddar (1950)
• Aankhen (1950)
• Anokha Pyaar (1948)
• Gunjan (1948)
• Adaab Arz (1943)
• Aankh Michauli(1942)
• Radhika (1941)
• Nirdosh (1941)
• Bahen (1941)

References

1. ^ Rediff On The NeT, Movies: Down memory lane with Shobhana Samarth
2. ^ Nalini Jaywant profile
3. ^ The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Ludhiana Stories

External links

• Nalini Jaywant at the Internet Movie Database

Persondata
Name	Jaywant, Nalini
Alternative names
Short description	Actress
Date of birth	18 February 1926
Place of birth	Bombay, British India
Date of death	20 December 2010
Place of death	Mumbai, India