Known for her movies like Baharein Phir Bhi Ayengi (1966), Jewel Thief (1969), Paisa Ya Pyaar (1969), Haathi Mere Saathi (1971) and Mere Jeevan Sathi, Tanuja is the daughter of veteran actor Shobhna Samarth and producer Kumarsen Samarth, and the sister of celebrated Hindi movie actor Nutan. Her daughters Kajol and Tanisha are additionally within the motion pictures.

In a chat with Times Now, Dhramendra recalled the times of collaborating with Tanuja and mentioned, “She is always a livewire. Very spontaneous in front of the camera, and even more so in person. The first film we did together was Atma Ram’s Baharen Phir Bhi Ayengi where Guru Dutt was to play the lead. When he passed away, I replaced him.”

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He shared that he was one of many few actors who labored with each Tanuja and Nutan. “Do you know I am perhaps the only actor who has worked with both the sisters Nutan and Tanuja. I had the privilege of being Nutan’s hero in one of my earliest films in the great Bimal Roy’s Bandini,” he mentioned and added, “Tanuja and I had the most fun doing Raj Khosla’s caper Do Chor where both of us played thieves.”

In an earlier chat with Film Companion, Kajol mentioned that she discover sit exhausting to look at her mom’s work on display screen and mentioned, “I have not watched too many of my mother’s films. Because I feel so much for her that I’m never able to separate myself from her. And when she cries on screen, I just sit and I bawl. So I have no objectivity where she’s concerned. She just makes me howl. And I think my children feel the same way about me when they see me on screen. So they can’t watch either.”

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