Leena Chandavarkar

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She made her debut in the film, ' Man ka Meet ' with Sunil Dutt and it was his wife Nargis who groomed her to be an actress. Since then she has about 30 to 35 films to her credit and was a popular actress of her times. Between 1969 to 1979, Leena Chandavarkar she was a starcast opposite to many popular heros of that Era. She gave her best performance in the film Mehboob Ki Mehndi opposite to Rajesh Khanna in 1971 . Her film 'Manchali' opposite to Sanjeev Kumar was a hit film loved by the masses for the song compositions . Bairaag is another good film where she acted with the great screen legend, Dilip Kumar with a starcast of Saira Banu, Prem Chopra and Helen. Admist a stiff competition, Leena's achievements are quite significant. Leena is remembered as a petite beautiful woman who did not fit the bill and could not compete with the Bombshells like Zeenat Aman, Reena Roy , Parveen Babi , Neetu Singh and slowly moved out of the film industry . She was in the news for wrong reasons, quite recently in 2015 much after she had quit the film industry. Ever since the pictures of Leena and Supreme Court Lawyer Ram Jetmalani kissing went viral, her phone hasnt stopped ringing. The yesteryear actress maintained she doesnt care. Apart from her grief of losing her husband the 2nd time whom she was in love with , respected him , worshipped him, she also had to tackle whole lot of salacious rumours regarding her proximity with her stepson Amit Kumar . Despite lot of pressure, Leena Chandavarkar chose to stay on with her step son Amit and his family. She believes that Amit loves her son Sumeet ver much and she didnt want to deprive him of the only family he had. Leena Chandavarkar is in tune with the family close to Kishore Kumar;s family and is keen to see Amit and Sumeet make a great music together . She has pitched to write for their music albums.