Golden Era of Bollywood: Nutan.- An Actress Who Could Change Gear to Play any Character.

After Meena Kumari, it is Nutan who could be called Emotional Queen. She was the five-time winner of Filmfare Award of Best Actress. She played the Gauri of Seema, Sujata of Sujata, Kalyani of Bandhini or Romantic role in Tere Ghar Ke Samne, she performed all at ease and perfectly.
She was an actress who could change gears with well-oiled efficiency: She was the very essence of featherweight froth in films like Paying Guest and Anadi and made a splash by posing in a swimsuit for Delhi Ka Thug. Nutan also gave cry-from-the-soul performances in Sone Ki Chidiya (as an exploited actress) She acted in Shammi Kapoor extavaganzas like Laat Sahab clad in skirts and pants, sari-clad, self-sacrificing Saraswatichandra mould, secretly wiping away a tear and singing Main toh bhool chali babul ka desh. This hit garba song was one of Nutan's few, full-fledged dance numbers.
Nutan continued to get interesting roles even after she crossed 40. She could portray strength of character --- as seen in her award-winning role in Raj Khosla's Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki and others like Saajan Bina Suhagan, Saajan Ki Saheli, Teri Maang Sitaron Se Bhar Doon, Rishta Kagaz Ka.

Filmmaker Subhash Ghai cast her in a pivotal role in his Meri Jung and then fulfilled the wishes of several filmgoers (even if it was a little late in the day) by finally casting Dilip Kumar and Nutan together in his Karma (1986).

Nutan was diagnosed and treated for breast cancer in 1990.^] In February 1991, she was admitted to Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai after she fell ill. At the time, she was filming Garajna and Insaniyat. She died at 12:07 p.m. (IST) on 21 February.

Nutan's Landmark Films
Year	Film	Hero	Director
1950	Hamari Beti	Shekhar	Shobhana Samarth
1951	Nagina	Nasir Khan	Ravindra Dave
1951	Hum Log	Sajjan	Zia Sarhady
1955	Seema	Balraj Sahni	Amiya Chakravorthy
1957	Paying Guest	Dev Anand	Subodh Mukherji
1958	Delhi Ka Thug	Kishore Kumar	S D Narang
1959	Anadi	Raj Kapoor	Hrishikesh Mukherji
1959	Sujata	Sunil Dutt	Bimal Roy
1960	Chhaliya	Raj Kapoor	Manmohan Desai
1963	Bandini	Ashok Kumar, Dharmendra	Bimal Roy
1963	Tere Ghar Ke Saamne	Dev Anand	Vijay Anand
1965	Khandaan	Sunil Dutt	A Bhim Singh
1967	Milan	Sunil Dutt	Subba Rao
1968	Saraswatichandra	Manish	Govind Saraiya
1972	Anuraag	--	Shakti Samanta
1973	Saudagar	Amitabh Bachchan	Sudhendu Roy
1978	Main Tulsi Tere Angan Ki	Vijay Anand	Raj Khosla
1978	Saajan Bina Suhagan	--	Sawan Kumar Tak
1985	Meri Jung	--	Subhash Ghai
1986	Karma	Dilip Kumar	Subhash Ghai