Sulakshana Pandit

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Sulakshana Pandit is an actress and playback singer, who won the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award in 1975.

1 Career
2 Personal life
3 Sources
4 Other links

[edit] Career

Sulakshana comes from a musically-inclined family. Her brothers are Jatin Pandit and Lalit Pandit, better known as the composing duo Jatin Lalit. Her sister is actress and playback singer Vijeta Pandit who had starred in the teen hit film Love Story (1981 film). Sulakshana had a mid-level career as heroine in the 1970's and early 1980's, usually cast opposite Jeetendra in films, such as Apnapan (1977). Simultaneously, she also had a playback singing career, where she not only sang for some of her films that she starred in, but also for other heroines. She won the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award in 1975 for singing "Tu hi saagar hai tu hi kinara" in Sankalp (1975).

Some of her popular hit films are Sankoch, Khandaan, Raaz, Thief of Baghdad, Chehre Pe Chehra and Waqt Ki Deewar.

Some popular songs sung by Sulakshana are:

-Beqarar e dil tu gaaye ja- Door ka rahi(1971)

-Sapnon ka raja- Chalte chalte(1975)

-Bandhi re kahe preet- Sankoch(1976)

-Boliye surili boliyaan- Grihpravesh(1979)

-Mausam lovely mausam- Thodisi Bewafaai(1980)

-Mana teri nazar- Ahista Ahista(1982)

-Jiske Liye Sab ko Chhoda- Saajan ki Saheli (1981)

She sang duets with accomplished singers like Lata Mangeshkar, Mohd. Rafi, Kishore Kumar, Shailender Singh and Udit Narayan.

[edit] Personal life

Sulakshana never married, claiming that the love of her life, the late actor Sanjeev Kumar wouldn't marry her, because he never got over his heartbreak after actress Hema Malini rejected his marriage proposal to marry her frequent co-star Dharmendra. She also fell on hard times when she stopped getting work. She was living in an apartment with no furniture and that required serious repairs.^[1]. She was forced to put it up for sale, and it remained on the market for several months, until finally her former leading man Jeetendra came to her rescue by convincing his brother-in-law to purchase the flat. From the proceeds of the sale, she was able to pay off her debts and purchase three apartments.^[2]. Her sister Vijeta Pandit and brother-in-law, music composer Aadesh Shrivastava took her in and are helping her get back on her feet.^[3]. Aadesh has indicated that he was composing a devotional album for Sulakshana.^[4].