| Achala Sachdev | |
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| Born | May 3, 1920 Peshawar, British India |
| Years active | 1938-present |
Achala Sachdev (Also spelled: Achla Sachdev) (born 3 May 1920) is an Indian film actress who started her career as a child. She later became known for mother and grandmother roles in Hindi films. Her most memorable roles were as Balraj Sahni's wife in 1965 film Waqt, and Kajol's grandmother in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995).
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Born in Peshawar in 1920, Achala made her film debut with Fashionable Wife (1938), and acted in over 130 Hindi films. Achala became an resident of Pune after marrying Clifford Douglas Peters who had a factory in Bhosari.[1]
Achala has two chiildren, elder Jytoin from her first marriage and a daughter from second marriage She is in the hospital gripping her life to paralysis She is also alone and with no one to take care of her.
She has acted in many Yash Raj Films, apart from acting in English language films like the Mark Robson film Nine Hours to Rama (1963) and Merchant Ivory film, The Householder (1963).[2]
Achala Sachdev worked for All India Radio, Lahore prior to Indian partition and then at Delhi All India Radio [3] [4]
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