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Leela Chitnis (née Nagarkar; 9 September 1909 – 14 July 2003) was an Indian actress in the Indian film industry, active from the 1930s to the 1980s. In her early years she starred as a romantic lead, but she is best remembered for her later roles playing a virtuous and upright mother to leading stars.
Jul 17, 2003 · Leela Chitnis, an actress whose half-century-long 40-film career in India progressed from romantic roles to the motherly ones for which she is best remembered, died on Monday at a...
Leela Chitnis was born on 9 September 1909 in Dharwad, Bombay Presidency, British India. She was an actress and director, known for Kangan (1939), Sadhna (1958) and Chhaya (1936). She was married to Dr. Gajanan Yeshwant Chitnis. She died on 14 July 2003 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.
Sep 9, 2022 · Before Nirupa Roy and Lalita Pawar, actress Leela Chitnis embraced the long-suffering, self-sacrificing ‘elderly mother’ archetype in Indian cinema. Films such as Raj Kapoor’s Awaara (1951), Bimal Roy’s Maa (1952) or Dev Anand’s runaway hit Guide (1965) epitomise her role as Bollywood’s maternal figure.
Jul 15, 2003 · MUMBAI: Leela Chitnis, one of the first stars of the Hindi film industry, died on Monday in the US after a protracted illness. She was 93. Chitnis began her career with Bombay Talkies, one of India's three great film studios in the 1930s.
One of cinema's earliest educated ladies, Leela Chitnis captured her life in her autobiography Chanderi Duniyet. Born in a Marathi-speaking household in Karwar, Karnataka, she made a name for...
Leela Chitnis has the distinction of becoming the first Indian film star to endorse the Lux brand of soaps – a product that till then only was being endorsed only by Hollywood heroines. By the end of the 1940s, she knew that her time as a leading lady was up.
Sep 9, 2019 · One of Indian cinema’s earliest educated ladies, Leela Chitnis was one of the topmost heroines in the country, in the late 1930s and early 1940s. With her trademark arched eyebrows, Chitnis...
Jul 17, 2003 · Leela Chitnis, 93, a star in the early days of India's Bollywood when actresses were looked down upon as prostitutes, died Monday in a care facility in Danbury, Conn., of complications from a...
Jul 14, 2003 · Leela Chitnis (née Nagarkar; 9 September 1909 – 14 July 2003) was an Indian actress in the Indian film industry, active from the 1930s to the 1980s. In her early years she starred as a romantic lead, but she is best remembered for her later roles playing a virtuous and upright mother to leading stars.
