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Leela Chitnis
Glamour Girl is
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We arrived at the entrance to the ••filmindia" building at the same time. Leela with her husband. I with my note-book. I recognized her immediately and later she admitted that she guessed I was Hyacinth. However, in the usual manner of strangers we pretended I we couldn't see each other and she climbed the stairs to "filmindia" while I waited for the lift.
I couldn't get over the fact that she climbed the stairs. I didn't know there were any women, let alone actresses, so energetic, that they would rather climb stairs than use a perfectly good lift. But Leela doesn't behave like an actress. She doesn't even look like one. The morning I met her she looked like any modest and retiring Indian wife who lets her husband do all the talking and always keeps two paces behind him. Anyways I told myself that once Leela and I had got to know each other a bit better she would probably thaw out
The Indian wife who always
Refuses To Talk
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and act more like the vivacious woman she seems on the screen. I was to be disappointed.
She wasn't stand-offish and she isn't dumb, but she just wouldn't relax and answer my questions fully. I had to practically drag each answer out of her.
This is the result of my efforts: Leela was born on September 30th (she wouldn't give the year) at Dharwar. Her father who was a professor of English literature at Elphinstone College, Bombay. belonged to the Brahmo-Samaj.
LEELA JOINS THE FILMS
Leela is the fourth child in a family of 3 sisters and 2 brothers. She came to Bombay when she was eight years old and was sent to Ram Mohan School and then to Wilson College. Immediately after Leela passed her Matric she got married but she continued with her studies at the College. Here she passed her B.A. with distinction in
keeps two paces behind the husband.
Miss Leela Chitnis, B.A.
English. Now Leela never wanted to be a housewife so when her college career was over she really began to feel sorry for herself because she realised she would have to be more domesticated in the future. , Fortunately for Leela, Seth Govindas, a friend of her husband's who was the proprietor of Adarsha Chitra, asked her if she would like to become an actress. Now Leela had never in her wildest dreams imagined that she would ever become an actress. Her father who was very orthodox and old-fashioned in his ideas had refused to let his children even go to see films; so Leela knew really very little about the industry.
However she was willing to try anything once; so she agreed to becoming an actress. Her husband (first one) was not a jealous man so he didn't object to this new career his wife had chosen. So Leela made her first picture "Dhunwa Dhar" which proved a flop. She could not act at all and she didn't know the first thing about makeup. She used no eye-shadow for "'Dhunwa Dhar" and consequently her eyes looked flat on the screen. When she saw herself on the screen for the first time she was horribly shocked at her own appearance and acting and shrunk into her seat with embarrassment. She was so disheartened that she was even tempted for a short while to go back to housekeeping. But this feel
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