Sadhna
Born in 1941,
Sadhna migrated to India from Karachi during
the post-partition riots. Through difficult
times, she saw movies and even her dad was
influenced by cinema. In fact he had named
his daughter Sadhana after the famous actress
Sadhna Bose. Sadhana was destined to become
an actress.
Sadhna
started her career with the first Sindhi
film that was made in India. For her debut
film 'Abana' she was paid just Re1. But
she had nothing to lose and everything
to gain because she got noticed by ace
filmmaker S Mukerji. Sadhna was cast in
'Love In Simla' (1960) opposite newcomer
Joy Mukherjee. The writing was clear on
the wall.
After
that she kept giving good movies like
'Hum Dono' (1961), 'Mere Mehboob' (1963),
'Rajkumar' (1964) and 'Waqt' (1965). Out
of the 19 films that she did, 11 were
runaway successes and Sadhna became the
most happening actress.
With soft romantic roles,
she also did suspense thrillers like 'Woh
Kaun Thi' (1964), 'Mera Saaya' (1966)
and 'Anita' (1967). Some of her co-stars
were Shammi Kapoor, Rajendar Kumar, Sunil
Dutt and Manoj Kumar.
She
made famous the Sadhna cut and tight fitting
churidaar kameezes. In 1966, she married
director R K Nayyar and left the industry
for marital bliss. But that haunting beauty
is still fresh in everyone's mind.
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