Tanuja Samarth
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Tanuja Samarth (Marathi: तनूजा समर्थ) , popularly known as Tanuja (September 23, 1943) is an Indian actress. She is the mother of Kajol and Tanisha.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Personal life
Tanuja was born in Mumbai into a family of four children as Tanuja Samarth to poet Kumarsen Samarth and his wife Shobhna Samarth. Her mother was a famous 1930s and 1940s actress. When she was very young her parents separated. Tanuja entered films as a child actress and continued working until 1973. She met director Shomu Mukherjee on the set of Ek Baar Muskara Do. A whirlwind romance ended in a 1973 marriage. They had two children: Kajol Mukherjee (b. 1975) and Tanisha Mukherjee (b. 1978). They were later divorced.
[edit] Career
She started her film career in the film Hamari Beti (1950) as Baby Tanuja. She debuted as an adult actress in the film Chhabili (1960) which was directed by her mother. Her film career ran through the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
After the success of Haathi Mere Saathi (1971), she acted in Ek Baar Muskara Do (1972). Some of the other films she has acted in are Pavitra Paapi, Bhoot Bangla, Mere Jeevan Saathi, Anubhav etc.
Afterwards, Tanuja retired from films for a number of years. She has recently appeared in such films as Saathiya (2002), Rules (2003), and Khakee (2003) as a supporting actress.
During the mid 60's Tanuja started a parallel career in Bengali movies in Kolkata starting with the film Deya Neya (1963) where she was paired opposite the stalwart of Bengali cinema, Uttam Kumar. She followed it up with many other memorable hit films like Anthony-Firingee (1967) and Rajkumari (1970). Tanuja had fantastic on-screen chemistry with the then superstar Soumitra Chatterjee with whom she made some huge box office hits like Teen Bhuvaner Parey (1969), Prothom Kadam Phool etc.
Tanuja spoke Bengali so well onscreen that in those days many of her fans in West Bengal refused to believe that her mother tongue was actually Marathi.[citation needed]
[edit] External link
- Tanuja at the Internet Movie Database
