Actors - Nutan

	Actors - Nutan

Nutan (June 4, 1936 - February, 1991), was a well known actress in Indian Cinema.

Nutan was the daughter of actress Shobhana Samarth and director Kumarsen Samarth. She started her career as actress as a 14 year old in Hamari Beti (1950). Her first big break was Seema (opposite Balraj Sahni) which won her a Filmfare Award. She followed her success with romantic comedy Paying Guest (opposite Dev Anand). In 1959 she had two hits in Anari (with Raj Kapoor) and Bimal Roy's Sujata (with Sunil Dutt). There was no looking back after that. Also in the same year on October 11th she married naval Lieutenant-Commander Rajnish Behl and had a son, Mohnish Behl, in 1963.

Her facial expressions were her greatest assets. She can be called the Audrey Hepburn of Indian Cinema.

Nutan has won 6 Filmfare Awards and countless others - the most any actress has won to date:

1985 - Best Supporting Actress (Meri Jung)
1978 - Best Actress (Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki)
1967 - Best Actress (Milan)
1963 - Best Actress (Bandini
)
1959 - Best Actress (Sujata)
1956 - Best Actress (Seema)

Being called the best by the best is probably more important than the Filmfare awards. Lata Mangeshkar calls her the face she could sing for. Dev Anand identified her as the actress you could carry out an intelligent conversation with. Sadhana called Nutan her idol.

Her son Mohnish Behl is an actor too. Her sister Tanuja also acted in movies, while her nieces Kajol has had a very successful career in films. Her other niece, Tanisha (Kajol's younger sister) is also building a name for herself in Bollywood. (see Mukherjee-Samarth family (film)
)

In February 1991 she passed away after getting Cancer at the age of 54.

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