Bollywood in shock as veteran actress Nanda, 75, passes away

MUMBAI: Yesteryear Indian actress Nanda, who has been a part of hits like 'Teen Deviyaan,' 'Gumnaam' and many more died at the age of 75 in Mumbai on Tuesday.
The 75-year-old actress died Tuesday morning at her Andheri residence.
“It is shocking as she did not have any history of illness,” a relative of hers told on condition of anonymity.
Nanda, who was last seen in ‘Prem Rog’ in 1983, was born on Jan. 8, 1939 in Kolhapur, Maharastra. She was born to Marathi actor and director Master Vinayak and was the niece of filmmaking pioneer V Shantaram.
The actress was briefly engaged to ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’ director Manmohan Desai before he died in 1994 and remained unmarried ever since.
Nanda started as a child artist and got her first break as a grown up in V Shantaram’s 1956 film ‘Toofan Aur Diya’.
With the success of ‘Toofan Aur Diya’, Nanda did not look back and went on to establish herself in the Hindi film industry with hits like ‘Jab Jab Phool Khile’, ‘Gumnaam’, ‘Teen Deviyan’, ‘The Train’, ‘Mandir’, ‘Angarey’, ‘Ram Laxman’, ‘Bandi’, ‘Ittefaq’, ‘Hum Dono’, ‘Prayashchit’, ‘Ahista Ahista’, ‘Prem Rog’ and ‘Mazdoor’ among several others.
She excelled most often as a supporting star but also found great acceptance and popularity as a lead heroine in later years.
Her identification with the title role of ‘Choti Bahen’ which stuck in real life. She shared screen space with noted actors like Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Dev Anand, Waheeda Rehman, Rajesh Khanna and Shashi Kapoor with whom she starred in eight films.