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First known as Baby Nanda, the child star, Nanda is the daughter of actor parents. Her father, Master Vinayak was a comedian and her mother Meenaxi too was an actress on the Marathi stage. As a child star, she started at age six in 'Mandir' (1947) and 'Toofan aur Diya'. As a grown- up, her films include 'Bhabhi', 'Chhoti Behen', 'Aanchal', 'Aaj aur Kal', 'Aashiq', 'Hum Dono', 'Jab Jab Phool Khile', 'Gumnaam', 'Ittefaaq', 'The Train' and 'Joroo Ka Ghulam'. Because of her personalityd women. Nanda's presence in a film was always a guarantee that women would cry into their handkerchiefs, and the producers would laugh all the way to the bank.
Yet, she was bold enough to break her own image of a chaste sister and play a junkie in 'Naya Nasha'. In 'Ittefaaq' too, Nanda played a wife who kills her husband in connivance with her lover. Though she was generally known as a spinster, Nanda was engaged late in life, to producer-director (and widower) Manmohan Desai who committed suicide allegedly because of a chronic backache, before they could marry.
typically Indian, she got the roles of goody goody, self sacrificing, devote
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