Suhasini Mulay

Suhasini Mulay

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Suhasini Mulay Profile

  • Name:
  • Suhasini Mulay
  • Born:
  • November 20, 1950
  • Born / Home Town:
  • Patna
  • Spouse:
  • Atul Gurtu

Suhasini Mulay Biography

Suhasini Mulay is an actress of Bollywood. She is a successful television actress as well. She was the leading heroine of the landmark movie of Hindi cinema, Bhuvan Shome. This movie was her debut one which accumulated numerous awards at National awards function held in 1970. At present she is a well known character artist of Indian cinema. She won National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress in the year 1999, for her performance in Gulzar's film Hu Tu Tu. Her role as Rani Padmawati in Jodha Akbar and Yashodamai in Lagaan also need special mention. She appears as mother, aunt and grandmother type of roles in Bollywood at present.

 

Suhasini was born in Patna in 1950. She lost her father at a younger age and was brought up by her mother, a lady fascinated with films. In 1965 she was chosen by Pears Soap to be its model. Seeing this ad, Mrinal Sen casted her in lead role for the movie - Bhuvan Shome. Though the movie provided her big break to acting career, she decided to study further. She went abroad to pursue her studies. She completed a course in agricultural technology from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She also completed a degree in mass communication, and majored in film, radio, TV, journalism and print.

 

Once she returned back in 1975 she resumed her film career as an assistant director. For the first time, she worked with great Satyajit Ray in the Bengali film Jana Aranya. Later she worked with Mrinal Sen for Mrigaya and many other projects. After that she turned a producer of movies as well as documentary films and a few of them won National awards also. As an actress, a few of her memorable roles include Lagaan, Hu Tu Tu, Jodha Akbar and Dil chahte hai. She has seen in news for the intimate scenes with Irrfan in the movie, Yun Hota Toh Kya Hota.

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Updated: January 02, 2014

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