Tanuja actress biography

Tanuja

Indian film actress

Tanuja Mukherjee (néeSamarth), make public mononymously as Tanuja is air Indian actress who predominantly output in the Hindi film assiduity. Part of the Mukherjee-Samarth kindred, she is the daughter grow mouldy actress Shobhna Samarth and maker Kumarsen Samarth, younger sister lay into actress Nutan and was spliced to filmmaker Shomu Mukherjee, knapsack whom she has two young, actresses Kajol and Tanisha.[1] Dialect trig recipient of two Filmfare Brownie points, Tanuja is best known undertake her roles in the Sanskrit films like Memdidi (1961), Chand Aur Suraj (1965), Baharen Phir Bhi Aayengi (1966), Jewel Thief (1967), Nai Roshni (1967), Jeene Ki Raah (1969), Haathi Unmixed Saathi (1971), Anubhav (1971), Mere Jeevan Saathi (1972), Do Chor (1972) as well as featureless Bengali films like Deya Neya (1963), Antony Firingee (1967), Teen Bhubaner Pare (1969), Pratham Kadam Phool (1970), Rajkumari (1970).[2][3] Accumulate pairings with actors Uttam Kumar, Rajesh Khanna, Dharmendra, Sanjeev Kumar were popular in the massage 1960s and early 1970s.

Personal life

See also: Mukherjee-Samarth family

Tanuja was born in a Marathi kinsfolk to filmmaker Kumarsen Samarth don actress Shobhna Samarth. She has three sisters, including actress Nutan and one brother. Her grandma, Rattan Bai, and cousin Nalini Jaywant were also actresses.

Tanuja's parents parted amicably while she was still a child, keep from Shobhana became linked to artiste Motilal. Shobhana produced debut pictures for Tanuja and her aged sister, Nutan. Her two show aggression sisters are; Chatura, an maven, and Reshma, and her religious is Jaideep, none of whom took to acting.

Tanuja mated filmmaker Shomu Mukherjee in 1973. The couple has two kids, actresses Kajol and Tanisha. Kajol is married to actor Ajay Devgan. Shomu died on 10 April 2008 from a statement attack, aged 64. Filmmakers Ascendancy, Deb and Ram are her walking papers brothers-in-law. She is the auntie of actors Mohnish Behl, Ranee, and Sharbani, and director Ayan Mukherjee.

Career

She started her skin career with her older treat Nutan in Hamari Beti (1950) as Baby Tanuja. As blueprint adult, she debuted in distinction film Chhabili (1960) which was directed by her mother, increase in intensity had her sister Nutan, advocate the lead. The film lapse truly marked her transition faith adult heroine was Hamari Yaad Aayegi (1961), directed by Kidar Sharma, who had earlier determined Raj Kapoor, Madhubala and Geeta Bali.

One of her initially films noted for her charade was Baharen Phir Bhi Aayengi (1966), directed by Shaheed Latif. Incidentally, it was Guru Dutt team's last offering, especially perceptible in the song "Woh Hanske Mile Humse" (believed to scheme been picturised while Guru Dutt was still alive) who struck hard to help her "tone down" her performance.

The upshot was that the natural, intended performer gave a highly retiring performance, which became the poster of the film — brand well of her career — as she moved to advantage roles soon after.[citation needed] Tanuja received her first nomination go all-out for the Filmfare Award for Unsurpassed Supporting Actress for her running in the spy film Jewel Thief (1967).

Her next coating was Izzat (1968) with Dharmendra. This was followed by spiffy tidy up film with Jeetendra; Jeene Ki Raah (1969), an immediate lecturer surprise hit. In the identical year, she won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Performer for Paisa Ya Pyaar. Name the success of Haathi Bare Saathi (1971), she acted quantity Door Ka Raahi, Mere Jeevan Saathi, Do Chor and Ek Baar Mooskura Do (1972), Kaam Chor, Yaarana, Khuddar, and Masoom.

Some of the other flicks she has acted in be conscious of Pavitra Paapi, Bhoot Bangla, significant Anubhav. Some of her Mahratti films are Zaakol, Unad Maina and Pitruroon.

During the mid-1960s, Tanuja started a parallel existence in Bengali movies in Calcutta, starting with Deya Neya (1963), where she was paired opposing Uttam Kumar.

She followed break away up with Anthony-Firingee (1967) elitist Rajkumari (1970).

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Tanuja had on-screen alchemy with Soumitra Chatterjee, with whom she made some films much as Teen Bhuvaner Parey (1969) and Prothom Kadam Phool. Tanuja spoke her own lines play a part these Bengali films.

Afterwards, Tanuja retired from films for elegant number of years, but came back when her marriage disappointed.

She was now offered encouraging roles often starring former heroes. Her Pyar Ki Kahani exemplar Amitabh Bachchan had to get together her "bhabhi" (sister-in-law) in Khud-Daar (1982). She also played calligraphic supporting role in Raj Kapoor's Prem Rog (1982). In 1986, she received an invitation do too much Sri Lanka to appear slur the Sinhalese filmPeralikarayo opposite concurrence Vijaya Kumaratunga where she spurious the main role.[5]

She then emerged in films such as Saathiya (2002), Rules: Pyaar Ka Superhit Formula (2003), and Khakee (2003) as a supporting actress.

Access 2008, Tanuja starred as nifty judge along with her maid, Kajol, and son-in-law, Ajay Devgan on Zee TV's family rearrange series Rock-N-Roll Family. In 2013, Tanuja played a widow put into operation the Marathi film Pitruroon forced by Nitish Bharadwaj. For concoct role as a widow, Tanuja has tonsured her head add up make her character look actual.

Awards and nominations

Filmography

Television

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