Smita Patel.
Who can forget Smita Patil, who left the world at the age of just 31. The actress won people’s hearts with her evergreen characters. Even today there is no answer to his unmatched acting. The very beautiful actress Smita Patil had proved her acting prowess in just a few films and breathed such life into every role that even today people watch her films again and again. Smita Patil was the heroine who brought the era of women centric films to India. Smita Patil, who is seen in a new style in every role, won two National Awards in her short career. Today the whole country is remembering Smita. His birth anniversary is on 17th October. On this special occasion, we will introduce you to that aspect of his life which very few people know.
One photo changed fate
This actress with big eyes, beautiful face, painful character and seriousness on her face always managed to keep the audience on the edge of their seats. She will always be counted among the few pioneer actresses who introduced India to art cinema. When his film is playing on the screen, the viewers just keep watching. The situation is such that his film brings tears to the eyes and forces one to think for change. The viewer is forced to watch every scene and every gesture with attention, without wanting to. This is the specialty of Smita Patil. Smita Patil, who has done wonders in the world of acting, was earlier a journalist. He was seen as a news anchor. By the way, Smita was very lucky, her pictures fallen on the road were liked by the director of Doordarshan. Then he got a chance to shine on TV, from here the process of shining on the screen started.
funny story
Versatile actress Smita Patil, born on 17 October 1955 in Mumbai, studied in Marathi medium schools. After studies, she became a Marathi anchor in Mumbai Doordarshan. Smita Patil’s biography has been written by Maithili Rao named ‘Smita Patil A Brief Incandescence’, in which she has narrated many interesting anecdotes related to Smita Patil. Maithili Rao had told in her biography of Smita that Jyotsna Kirpekar, a friend of Smita, used to read news in Bombay Doordarshan and her husband’s name was Deepak Kirpekar, who was a photographer by profession and he often used to take pictures of Smita.
One picture changed fate
During this time, once Deepak went to Doordarshan Kendra with her photographs, where Smita’s photographs fell while entering. He started collecting the photographs there and during this time, Mumbai Doordarshan Director PV Krishnamurthy, who was passing by, saw the photograph. Suddenly he asked whose pictures were these? Then what was left? Deepak told him about Smita and he said that he wanted to meet her. Although Smita was not ready for this work and after much persuasion she agreed to do this work. In the audition, when Smita was asked to sing something of her choice, she sang nothing but the national anthem of Bangladesh, Amar Shonar, which was in Bengali. The director liked his voice. He immediately appointed him as news anchor. After this, Smita started reading news in Marathi in Mumbai Doordarshan.
This is how I got my first film
Smita’s acting career also got a great opportunity from here. Popular film director Shyam Benegal also saw Smita for the first time while reading news on TV. After this he had decided to give her a role in his film. Let us say that Smita became an accidental news anchor, but she showed her strength in both the fields. Smita Patil married already married actor Raj Babbar and is said to be her second wife. She had a son Prateik Babbar from Raj Babbar. Smita said goodbye to the world at the age of just 31. The actress died on 13 December 1986 due to child birth complications.
