Biography
 Sadhana
Shivdasani, One of the most famous
heroin of the 60's & 70's from the
bollywood , shares the
birth place
with legendary sindhi politician
Shri L. K. Advani
as both were born in Karachi Sindh
presently in Pakistan, the city which
was also birth place of legendry
Popati Hiranandani.
Sadhana was born on
2 September 1941.
Till the partition in 1947 she doesn't
went to school as being the only child
of her parents , parents were keen to
look after her as the centre of their
life. The atmosphere in the Shivdasani
family was conducive for the films.
Some one might be surprised to know
that the name Sadhana was given to her
as his father's favorite heroin was
Sadhana Bose. During the riot of
partitions family shifted to Mumbai,
Where the formal education of Sadhana
was started.
During
the college days, some body from the
unit of India's First Sindhi Film "Abana"
saw her at one of the play of college
and the fifteen years young girl was
offered the role of younger sister of
the heroin with a remuneration of 1
lakh rupees and in this way she
entered in world of her dreams.
In the
1960 she was introduced to Hilndi Film
Industry by the famous producer
Subodh Mukherjee in his film " Love In
Simla" as the heroin of his son Joy
Mukherjee. During the making of the
film she falls in love with R. K.
Nayyar - the 22 year young director of
the film but as she was minor and her
parents were not liking Nayyaer so the
relation was broken.
In fact it was R. K. Nayyar
who had given her the special hair
style, which even today is being known
as the Sadhana - cut. The box office
collections of the film "Love in simla"
were so tremendous that Sadhana become
a star. After that she acted in many
films. The trend of Chudidar Paijama,
Kameez and Odani was set by her from
the all time classic film "WAQT" in
the 1965, during these days Raj Kapoor
reintroduce her with R. K. Nayyar and
both of them, this time not allowed
any body to make efforts to separate
them and married in 1966.
Beside
becoming the fashion icon for
young Indian girls with her specific
hair style, still known as Sadhana
cut, she become famous as Mystery
Girl with her three suspense
thriller films namely "Woh Kaun Thi"
[1964], "Mera Saaya" [1965] and
"Anita" [1968]. In the year 1965 she
was nominated for prestigious Film
Fare Award for film "Waqt".
Sadhana worked in Hindi
films up to 1974 and during this
period she acted in about 33 films,
out of these almost 20 were the super
hits. She worked almost all the
leading hero's and directors of her
time but Raj Khosala was one director
with whom she has done successful
films like " Woh Kaun Thi" , "Mera
Saya" and "Anita", During her one of
the interview she told about Raj
Khosala" Our Tuning with each other is
such that we feel comfortable working
together, He knows my strengths and
weaknesses better than any other
director."
Her last
film was "Geeta Mera Naam" in which
she performed a double role. Some the
successful films of her are :
Filmography
1960 LOVE IN SIMLA Debut Film
of Sadhana Joy Mukherjee & R. K.
Nayyar [Director]
1961 HUM DONO Dev Anand, Sadhana,
Nanda
1962 ASLI NAQLI Dev Anand, Sadhana,
Leela Chitnis
1962 EK MUSAFIR EK HASINA Sadhana, Joy
Mukherjee
1963 MERE MEHBOOB Rajendra Kumar,
Sadhana, Ameeta
1964 DULHA DULHAN Raj Kapoor, Sadhana
1964 RAJKUMAR Shammi Kapoor, Sadhana
1964 WOH KOUN THI Manoj Kumar, Sadhana,
Prem Chopra
1965 WAQT Raj Kumar, Sunil Dutt,
Sadhana
1966 GABAN Sunil Dutt, Sadhana
1966 MERA SAAYA Sunil Dutt, Sadhana
1967 ANITA Manoj Kumar, Sadhana
1969 EK PHOOL DO MALI Sadhana, Sanjay,
Balraj Sahni
1969 INTEQAM Ashok Kumar, Sadhana,
Dharmendra
1970 ISHQ PAR ZOR NAHIN Sadhana,
Dharmendra, Biswajeet
1971 AAP AAYE BAHAAR AAYI Rajendra
Kumar, Sadhana
1972 DIL DAULAT DUNIYA Sadhana, Ashok
Kumar, Rajesh Khanna
1974 CHHOTE SARKAR Shammi Kapoor
(double role), Sadhana.
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