Leena Chandavarkar was an Indian actress who appeared in Bollywood movies and is now acting in reality shows.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Personal 1.2 Career 2 Filmography 3 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Personal

Leena Chandavarkar was born in North Karnataka in the Karwar–Dharwar region. She is from the Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin community. Her father a retired army officer from Chandavar village near Honavar chose to live in Malmaddi. Leena studied at Bassel Mission Girl's high school, Dharwar for some years. She won a talent competition when she was 15 and after that she went to Mumbai to try her luck in acting.

In 1974, after several successful films like Humjoli, Manchali and a total of some 40 films; Leena married Siddharth Bandodkar, the son of Dayanand Bandodkar the first chief minister of Goa. Her husband died in an accident. Later Leena married the singer actor Kishore Kumar in 1980 until his death in October 1987. She has son with him named Sumeet Kumar.

She appeared as a guest judge for the first 2 episodes of "K for Kishore", a new reality TV singing show launched by Sony TV during December 2007. She is now appearing again for the reality shows. She also penned down some songs for Amit Kumar for a music album.

[edit] Career

Initially she worked in advertisements but eventually ventured into films. She made her debut in Man Ka Meet. Between 1969-1979, Leena acted in many films. She was cast opposite to majority of popular heroes of that era. She gave one of her best acting performances in Mehboob Ki Mehndi with Rajesh Khanna in 1971.

Bairaag is another example where she acted against the great screen legend Dilip Kumar and a mighty star cast like Saira Bano, Prem Chopra and the lovely Helen.

[edit] Filmography

Filmography
Movies	Year	Role
Sarfarosh	1985	Sita
Zalim	1980
Daku Aur Jawan	1978
Nalayak	1978	Seema
Aafat	1977	Inspector Chhaya
Aakhri Goli	1977
Naami Chor	1977
Yaaron Ka Yaar	1977	Bindiya
Bairaag	1976	Soniya
Ek Mahal Ho Sapno Ka	1975	Sonia
Qaid	1975	Preet
Apne Rang Hazaar	1975
Jaggu	1975	Geeta
Bidaai	1974	Padma D. Das
Chor Chor	1974
Imaan	1974
Anhonee	1973	Dr. Rekha
Ek Kunwari Ek Kunwara	1973	Neela
Honeymoon	1973	Madhu Bhargav
Manchali	1973	Leena
Dil Ka Raja	1972
Rakhwala	1971	Chandni
Preetam	1971	Sharan B. Sinha/Bindya
Jaane Anjaane	1971	Mala
Main Sunder Hoon	1971	Radha
Mehboob Ki Mehndi	1971	Shabana
Humjoli	1970	Ranibala Rai
Jawab	1970	Chanchal
Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi	1970
Man Ka Meet	1968

[edit] External links

• Leena Chandavarkar at the Internet Movie Database

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