Smita Patil

Smita Patil was born on 17, 1955 and died on 13, dec 1986. She was the leading Indian actress from the early 1970s to 1980s in Hindi and Marathi cinema.

Smita Patil along with other bollywood actresses was one of the most powerful quartets representing India’s parallel cinema, at the time.

Patil was also an active feminist and member of the women’s center in Mumbai; she was one hot celebrity in India.

Early life
Smita Patil was the daughter of maharashtrian politician Shivajiaro Patila. Her mother was a social worker in the town of shirpur of khandesh province, Maharashtra state; Smita schooled at Marathi-language school.

Career-an overview
Smita Patil comes from a generation of great bollywood actresses, for instance, suhasini Mulay and Shabana Azmi. Like them Smita Patel was strongly associated with the radical cinemas of the 1970s.

Her basic work was doing films with parallel cinema directors; she once also worked as a TV news reader and much more, an accomplished photographer.

Smita Patil won various awards including the national award for best actress, apart from her deep rooted career in acting, smita patil was further known to be a women’s rights activist, and in fact she was greatly famous for her roles in films that revealed women.

Personal life
Smita Patil once became romantically involved with Raj Babbar, who was also an actor; this drew criticisms from her fans, extremely clouding her personal life.

Within no time the bollywood celebrity was in the media limelight, and was further labeled as a home-breaker by the feminist organizations she had worked for. It was a nightmare for smita and Raj as they hoped for a new beginning.

Death
Smita Patil died on December, 13 1986 as a result of childbirth complications, barely six hours after giving birth to his son, Prateek Babbar; she was truly a hot celebrity in India. This marked the end of her beautiful career, and life on earth as a bollywood celebrity.