Ranjeeta Kaur

Ranjeeta "Robby" Kaur (born 22 September 1956) is an Indian movie actress.^[1] She was trained at FTII. She has appeared in around 47 films.

Personal life and education

Ranjeeta was born in Punjab. Her sister Rubina also acted in films.

She married Raj Masand and has a son named Sky.^[2] Ranjeeta lives with her husband Raj and son Sky in Norfolk, Virginia, US. They own a series of 7-Eleven stores in Virginia.^[3] Sky is a famed Tennis player and studies in college in the US.

She was associated with an International School in Pune, handling Public Relations in the mid-2000s, before moving to the US.

Career

Kaur started her film career as the lead opposite Rishi Kapoor in the movie Laila Majnu (1976). Subsequently, she acted in hits like Pati Patni Aur Woh (with Sanjeev Kumar) and Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se (with Sachin). She made a famous team with Mithun Chakravorty in films such as Surakshaa. She also was one of Amitabh Bachchan's heroines in Satte Pe Satta.

She appeared in Ek Main aur Ek Tu opposite Rajeev Tandon (Raveena Tandon's brother) as well as in Pahlaj Nihalani's movie. Ranjeeta was very closely associated with the Rajshri family having churned out so many hits like Taraana, Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se etc.

She starred with Raj Babbar, Raj Kiran, Deepak Parashar, Vinod Mehra, Amol Palekar and many other heroes, but her most famous pairing was with Mithun Chakraborty.

After gap of almost 16 years Ranjeeta returned to acting with 2011 movie Jaana Pehchana opposite Sachin Pilgaonkar.^[4] In 2012 she starred in movie Zindagi Tere Naam opposite her yesteryears famous on-screen hero Mithun Chakraborty. She had also debuted on Television years back but withdrew quickly. Currently, she resides with her family in Virginia.

Filmography

Awards and Nominations

References

External links

• Ranjeeta Kaur at the Internet Movie Database