Golden Era of Bollywood: Remembering NUTAN on her 81st Birth Anniversary

Nutan an Indian actress.was born on 4th June 1936 to the film actress Shobhna Samarth and filmmaker Kumarsen Samarth,She started her career as actress as a fourteen-year-old in Hamari Beti (1950). This film was produced by her mother, Shobhana.Her first big break was Seema, for which she won her first Filmfare Best Actress Award.

She formed a popular screen couple with co-star Dev Anand and the two acted in four films together – Paying Guest (1957), Baarish (1957), Manzil (1960) and Tere Ghar Ke Samne (1963).She was lucky to have been noticed by Bimal Roy, and he did two of his masterpieces with her. Bandini and Sujata are her tragic masterpieces.In Bandini and Sujata, a heavenly Nutan demonstrates the value of sacrifice and its poignant drama.Sophia Loren, who greatly admired her after watching her performance in Sujata at the Venice International Film Festival.
When heroines were nothing more than mere glamorous props meant for providing titillation, Nutan accepted only those roles in which she either played the main part or at least shared equal footing with the male counterpart.
She appeared in more than 70 Hindi films in a career spanning over four decades. Regarded as one of the finest female actors in the history of Hindi cinema,She held the record of five wins of the Best Actress award at Filmfare, which was held only by her for over 30 years until it was matched by her niece Kajol in 2011.
In 1974, she was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India. In the 1980s, Nutan started playing character roles and continued working until shortly before her death. She portrayed mostly motherly roles in such films as Saajan Ki Saheli (1981), Meri Jung (1985) and Naam (1986). Her performance in Meri Jung earned her a sixth and last Filmfare Award, this time in the Best Supporting Actress category.

Nutan was married to Rajnish Bahl from 1959 till her death of cancer in 1991. Their son, Mohnish Bahl is a well-known character actor in Hindi films and television.
She worked all the top actors of her time,she was the heroine of Dev Anand and Raj Kapoor also signed one film with Dilip Kumar but unfortunately that movie never released.ultimately she did one film with him "Karma" in 80s. With Kishore Kumar, she appeared in a romantic comedy film that had some elements of a crime thriller — Dilli Ka Thug — and was first seen in a swimming costume.She worked with Shammi Kapoor,Sunil Dutt,Dharmendra and Sanjiv Kumar.She also did one film with Amitabh Bachchan "Saudagar".
Some of Nutan's Popular Songs