Nutan Samarth Behl (4 June 1936 – 21 February 1991), better known as
Nutan, was an Indian actress. She appeared in more than 70 Hindi films in a career spanning over four decades. Regarded as one of the finest female actors in the history of
Hindi cinema,
[1][2] Nutan was noted for playing unconventional parts, and her performances often received praise and accolades.
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In the 1980s, Nutan started playing character roles and continued working until shortly before her death. She portrayed mostly motherly roles in such films as
Saajan Ki Saheli (1981),
Meri Jung (1985) and
Naam (1986). Her performance in
Meri Jung earned her a sixth and last Filmfare Award, this time in the
Best Supporting Actress category. Nutan holds the record of five wins of the Best Actress Award at Filmfare, which was held only by her for over 30 years until it was matched by her niece
Kajol in 2011; she is overall the most-awarded actress in the female acting categories at Filmfare, with six awards alongside
Jaya Bachchan.
[4] In 1974, she was awarded the
Padma Shri by the
Government of India.
Nutan was married to Rajnish Bahl from 1959 till her death of cancer in 1991. Their son,
Mohnish Bahl is a character actor in Hindi films and television.
Early life[edit]
Nutan was born into a
Marathi family of four children as Nutan Samarth to director-poet Kumarsen Samarth and his actress wife
Shobhna Samarth.
[5] Nutan was the eldest child of actress Shobhna Samarth. She had three other siblings, 2 younger sisters and a younger brother. Her younger sister
Tanuja is also an actress, and Chatura, who did not work in Hindi films. Her parents separated when she was still a child. Her niece
Kajol, who is Tanuja's daughter, is an actress.
She started her career as actress as a fourteen-year-old in Hamari Beti (1950). This film was produced by her mother, Shobhana. In 1952 she was the winner of Miss India.
In 1960 she starred opposite
Raj Kapoor once again in
Manmohan Desai's
Chhalia. She received another Filmfare nomination for the role. In a film review at the time,
Filmfare wrote, "As the unfortunate girl disowned by her relatives for no fault of hers, Nutan puts over a superb and memorable portrayal."
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In 1963, Nutan starred in
Bimal Roy's socio-realist
Bandini as Kalyani, a young prisoner who was convicted after poisoning the wife of her lover (
Ashok Kumar). The story follows her life in prison and how later she has to make a choice between her past love and a young prison doctor (
Dharmendra) who fell in love with her. Nutan had to be persuated to act in the film as she had quit acting post marriage.
[7] Bandini was a major critical success, which was attributed by critics mostly to Nutan's portrayal, which regarded as one of the finest performances in the history of Hindi cinema.
[8] The film won the
Filmfare Award for Best Movie and she received her third Best Actress Award. The
Bengal Film Journalists' Association, while ranking the film as the third-best Indian film of the year, acknowledged her with the Best Actress (Hindi section) award.
[9] Author and critic Dinesh Raheja wrote, "Sans screaming hysteria-nics, Nutan puts across one of the finest performances seen on Hindi screen. She recognised and was perfectly in tandem with Kalyani's innate strength of character."
[10] Film and theatre critic Gautaman Bhaskaran wrote for
The Hindu, "Nutan as Kalyani gave perhaps her career's best performance. Splendidly expressive, her understated role is something that cannot be easily matched by today's painted heroines. Fear and anger show up so lividly in Nutan's eyes that they haunt you long after you have walked out of the theatre."
[11] In 2010,
Filmfare included her performance in its "80 Iconic Performances" list.
[12] Anupama Chopra included the film in her list of "The 20 Best Hindi Films Ever Made", calling her role "one of Hindi cinema’s most complex and fully realized female characters," and further noting, "This was the role of a lifetime and Nutan, who ... gave it all. Her face raged with a grand passion and a quiet grace."
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Her fourth Filmfare Award came for
Milan (1967). She starred opposite Amitabh Bachchan in 1973's
Saudagar (1973), for which she received a sixth Filmfare nomination and a third BFJA award. In 1978, she made an astonishing return to the screen as the righteous Sanjukta Chauhan in
Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki (1978). For this performance, she received an eighth Filmfare career nomination and won her fifth Filmfare best actress award, at the age of 42. She thus became a record holder in the category, having won five award for Best Actress at Filmfare. At age 42, she is also the oldest winner of the award. Nutan was perhaps the only actress of her generation to command leading roles in her 40s, with tremendous success. Following this, she starred in
Saajan ki Saheli(1981), as an ignorant, jealous wife to a husband who knowingly befriends the daughter she abandoned at childbirth.
In the remaining 1980s she played roles in blockbuster films such as
Meri Jung (1985),
Naam (1986) and
Karma (1986).
Karma was notable for being the first time she was paired with actor
Dilip Kumar. For
Mere Jung she won a
Filmfare Award for
Best Supporting Actress. Her last film released while she was alive was
Kanoon Apna Apna in 1989. She died in 1991 of cancer. Two of her films
Naseebwala (1992) and
Insaniyat (1994) were released after her death.
Nutan was noted for her willingness to play unconventional roles and several of her roles were labelled "path-breaking". M.L. Dhawan from
The Tribune wrote, "When squeakers and screamers ruled the roost, Nutan fine-tuned her dialogue delivery with an evocative voice. A natural throw was the hallmark of Nutan’s dialogue delivery. She was low key and mellow as she was peppery and sarcastic and yet made a strong impact." According to Dhawan, "a fleeting expression on her face conveyed much more than dialogue," and he further noted her for accepting only roles in which "she either played the main part or at least shared equal footing with the male counterpart."
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Actresses like
Sadhana and
Smita Patil noted Nutan as their influence.
[16] Sadhana was once quoted as saying, "If there was any actress I modelled myself in the lines of it was the versatile Nutan in
Seema,
Sujata and
Bandini.
Parakh was a film where I really followed Nutan."
[17] Filmmaker
Sanjay Leela Bhansali said of her, "They don't make actresses like her anymore."
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In 2011,
Rediff.com listed her as the third-greatest actress of all-time.
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Nutan’s narrative is depicted in the book Nutan – Asen Mi Nasen Mi written by famous Marathi author Lalita Tamhane. The book can be summarized as one describing Nutan’s life experiences, interactions with co-actors/family/friends, etc., as told by her to Lalita Tamhane.
A postage stamp, bearing her photo, was released to honour her by India’s Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology in February 2011.
Personal life[edit]
Nutan died in February 1991, of lung cancer, at the age of 54.
Awards and nominations[edit]
Other Awards[edit]
Filmography[edit]
References[edit]
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- Jump up^ "The Sunday Tribune – Spectrum – Article". Tribuneindia.com. 26 May 2002. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
- Jump up^ "rediff.com, Movies: Forever Nutan". Rediff.com. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
- ^ Jump up to:a b "The Sunday Tribune – Spectrum". Tribuneindia.com. Retrieved 22 September2011.
- Jump up^ Nutan Upperstall.
- Jump up^ "Legendary Actress". Times of India.
- Jump up^ "From the FIlmfare files...reviews from the 1960s". Filmfare (January 2002). Retrieved27 September 2011.
- Jump up^ "Bandini: A Bimal Roy gem". Hindustan Times. 30 May 2003. Retrieved 22 September2011.
- Jump up^ "Bollywood Divas". Hindustantimes.com. 4 June 1936. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
- ^ Jump up to:a b "69th & 70th Annual Hero Honda BFJA Awards 2007". Web.archive.org. 8 January 2010. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
- Jump up^ "rediff.com, Movies: Classics Revisited: Bandini". Rediff.com. Retrieved 22 September2011.
- Jump up^ "A classic convict". The Hindu. 8 January 2000. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
- Jump up^ "80 Iconic Performances 7/10". Filmfare. 7 June 2010. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
- Jump up^ Chopra, Anupama. "Top 20 Movie Reviews". NDTV. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
- Jump up^ Dhawan, M.L. (9 December 2007). "Queens of hearts". The Tribune. Retrieved22 September 2011.
- Jump up^ Encyclopaedia Britannica (India) Pvt. Ltd; Gulzar; Govind Nihalani; Saibal Chatterjee (2003). C Encyclopaedia of Hindi cinema. Popular Prakashan. ISBN 978-81-7991-066-5. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
- Jump up^ "A rare resonance". Deccanherald.com. 19 February 2011. Retrieved 22 September2011.
- Jump up^ Das Gupta, Ranjan (5 September 2008). "Sadhna worked wonders". The Hindu(Chennai, India). Retrieved 22 September 2011.
- Jump up^ Team, Hitlist (26 October 2009). "Sanjay Bhansali the movies i loved growing up". Mid-day.com. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
- Jump up^ Sen, Raja (29 June 2011). "Readers Choice: The Greatest Actresses of all time". Rediff.com. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
- Jump up^ http://www.rediff.com/movies/2004/aug/04bahl.htm
- Jump up^ Filmfare – the full coverage
- Jump up^ 31st Annual BFJA Awards. Awards For The Year 1967. bfjaawards.com (1968)
- Jump up^ "37th Annual BFJA Awards". BFJA. Archived from the original on 22 April 2008. Retrieved 23 February 2011.[dead link]
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External links[edit]
- Nutan at the Internet Movie Database
- Nutan Online: Tribute of Lalit Kumar to Nutan at the Wayback Machine (archived 27 October 2009)
- Nutan Biography
- In-depth reviews of Nutan's filmography at Let's talk about Bollywood
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