A film career spanning from the 1940s to the 1980s, Nanda was born on January 8, 1939, to a show-business Marathi family in Bombay, India. Her father was actor Master Vinayak, and her mother was Sushila. Nanda was the third of seven brothers and sisters. When she was just 5 years old, her father wanted to cast her in his film "Mandir" (1948). She ...
Sister in law of producer C V K Sastry . He is married to Nanda's elder sister Meena.
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Sister in law of actress Jayshree T. She is married to Nanda's brother director Jat Prakash.
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Actor Shashi Kapoor acted with her in several films, their most famous being the superhit film "Jab Jab Phool Khile" (1965). He later said that she was his favorite leading lady.
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Her favorite song that was picturized on her was "Yeh Sama" from the hit film "Jab Jab Phool Khile" (1965).
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During the filming of "Jab Jab Phool Khile" (1965), a very handsome Maharashtrian colonel was struck by Nanda's beauty and forwarded his marriage proposal to Nanda's mother, but in the end, nothing came of it.
She is fluent in several languages, including Marathi (her mother tongue), Hindi, and English.
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Nanda 2nd highest paid Hindi actress along-with Nutan from 1960-1965 and 2nd highest paid Hindi actress in 1966-1969 along-with Nutan and Waheedha and 3rd highest paid Hindi actress with Sadhana from 1970-1973.
Her biggest super-hits came at end of her career as the lead heroine in Ittefaq, The Train and Joru Ka Ghulam opposite Superstar Rajesh Khanna in increasing order of box-office revenue. These films earned more than her earlier hits opposite Shashi Kapoor, Rajendra Kumar, Dev Anand, Sanjeev Kumar and Jeetendra.
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As a child she was tutored at home by renowned school-teacher and Scouts Commissioner Gokuldas Vissomal Makhi.
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Her best friend is actress Waheeda Rehman, and they had co-starred together in Kala Bazar (1960).