Kalpana Kartik

Kalpana Kartik

Hindi filmstar Late Dev Anand's wife Kalpana Kartik was herself a film actress. Kalpana Kartik was born in Shimla and had won beauty contest there. Kalpana Kartik has worked in films like Baazi, Taxi Driver, House no. 44 and many more.

Kalpana Kartik

Works : Kalpana Kartik has also worked as an Associate Producer for movies like Tere Ghar Ke Samne (1963), Jewel Thief (1967), Prem Pujari (1970), Shareef Budmaash (1973), Heera Panna (1973), and Jaaneman (1976). Dev Anand played the lead role in these movies.
Dev Anand met Kalpana Kartik during the shooting of film Baazi and married Kalpana during a half-an-hour break between shots on the sets of Taxi Driver.
There are no photos of marriage of Kalpana Kartik and Dev Anand.

Kalpana Kartik (original name Mona Singha) is a former Hindi film actress. She starred in five films in the 1950s. She is the wife of actor and film maker Dev Anand.

Mona Singha was a college beauty queen from Simla, (now Shimla). She studied in St. Bede's College, Simla. She was introduced to films by Chetan Anand of Navketan Films for the film Baazi in 1951, in which she co-starred with her then future husband actor Dev Anand, with whom she starred in all her subsequent films. Her screen name of Kalpana Kartik was given by Chetan during this career launch.

Her other films were Aandhiyan (1952), Taxi Driver (1954), House no 44 (1954) and Nau Do Gyaraah (1957).

Career

Mona Singha was a student of the prestigious St Bedes college in Shimla. In her graduation year, she participated in the Miss Shimla contest, and as luck would have it she bagged the trophy and also the attention of a struggling film-maker from Bombay . It was Chetan Anand who brought her to Bombay to join his film company Navketan, that he ran along with Dev Anand, his younger brother. Her first film 'Baazi' was a huge success and went on to become a landmark in Indian cinema.

Personal life

In 1954 Mona and Dev Anand got secretly married while on a break during the shooting of Taxi Driver.They became parents in 1956 when Suneil Anand was born. After Nau Do Gyarah, Kalpana quit films to become a home maker. Suneil has also acted in...
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