Nalini Jaywant

This actress belongs to the black and white era and later became a highest-paid star in the fifties. Nalini Jaywant was tomboyish and had a most photogenic face in Hindi cinema then. She acted with Ashok Kumar Ashok Kumar hails from Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. >> Read More... , Dilip Kumar Muhammad Yusuf Khan was born on the 11th of Decemb >> Read More... , and Dev Anand Dev Anand would be nostalgically remembered by fil >> Read More... in many films. In fact, she had helped these actors to reach stardom. She was even considered to be the finest actress of her generation who had an extraordinary ability to emote. Off-screen she was warm and affectionate and caring for all. Nalini is a cousin of Shobhana Samarth(actress Kajol’s grandmother) which makes her aunt of Nutan and Tanuja. Her father Dadasaheb Jayawant was against Nalini’s idea of joining films.

But since Shobhana was enjoying her stardom, Nalini was stubborn to make her debut in films at the age of 14. Her first film Radhika was for National Studios in 1941. That year, she acted in Mehboob Khan Mehboob Khan was a pioneer producer-director of Hi >> Read More... ’s Bahen. Later, she appeared in films like Shikast with Dilip Kumar (1953), Sangram with Ashok Kumar (1951), and Munimji(1955) with Dev Anand. In 1958, she acted with Madhubala and Dev Anand in’ Kala Pani’ which fetched her best actress award from Filmfare. She acted in 19 films with Ashok Kumar as his co-star. In ‘Anokha Pyar’(1948), she acted with Dilip Kumar and Nargis. This actress acted with all veteran directors like Bimal Roy Bimal Roy was born on 12 July 1909 in Suapur, East >> Read More... , Mehboob Khan, Raj Khosla Raj Khosla was a director in the Indian film indus >> Read More... and Gyan Mukherjee Gyan Mukherjee was an Indian film director and scr >> Read More... and gave absorbing performances in their films. She gained her stardom from a small beginning. She did not see significant success through the early forties, but it was towards the end of forties she got notices and became a huge star. Her songs like ‘O gore gore O banke chore', ‘Jeevan ke safar mein rahi’ and ‘Thandi hawayein lehrake gayen’ were crowd pullers and even today remains immortal songs of Lata Mangeshkar.

After Dilip-Dev-Ashok Kumar era was over, she got chance to act with the newer breed of heroes like Sunil Dutt(Railway Platform), Shammi Kapoor Shammi Kapoor: - 'Elvis Presley' of India. >> Read More... ( Hum Sab Chor Hain and Rajendra Kumar Born on 20 July 1929, Rajendra Kumar is a Bollywoo >> Read More... ( Awaaz). She also gave some successful movies with Pradeep Kumar Pradeep Kumar was an actor who is well known for h >> Read More... and Bharat Bhusan too. She gave stunning performances in Dilip Kumar starrer Shikast and Anand starrer Rahee. Having played the heroine for two, Nalini retired soon thereafter.

Her last film was Bombay Race Course (1965) and later made her comeback in Nastik( Amitabh Bachchan’s film). She married twice. Her first husband was Virendra Desai (1940) Later, she married her second husband, actor Prabhu Dayal Bio coming soon... >> Read More... who was her co-star. This actress was born on 18 February 1926 and died on 20 December 2010.