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Leena Chandavarkar won the beauty contest and stepped into films and competed with Hema Malini and Mumtaz in the 70s. His personal life was painful, widowed at the age of 24 and then married Kishore Kumar.
One to one beautiful actresses came in Hindi cinema. There were some whose moon was blushing after seeing the beauty. There was an actress who started the film innings by winning the beauty contest. When she came in films, she became a heroine of big stars. On seeing this, she started competing with Mumtaz and Hema Malini. But his personal life was so painful that even today, the hair stands up.
This name is Leena Chandavarkar who is now 74 years old. There was a time when he made everyone crazy with his beauty in Hindi cinema. It would be remembered by the song, that heroine was none other than Leena.
Leena was born on 29 August 1950 in Konkani Marathi Family in Karnataka. His father used to be an army officer. Leena chose modeling for a career. She wanted to join the glamor industry since childhood. In such a situation, he started with ads and then on seeing it, he also started getting films.
Leena Chandavarkar auditioned for Sunil Dutt’s film Messiah (1967) for the first time and she passed and became the heroine of the film. But Leena’s luck did not support and she stopped before the film was made. But Sunil Dutt liked Leena’s beauty and work and so the second film was given Meet and she was overnight.
In the 70s, Leena Chandavarkar worked. There used to be beauty discussions everywhere. She also overtook Hema Malini and Mumtaz. For about 10 years, Leena continued to work back to back and did a lot of work with Rajesh Khanna to Jitendra to Dilip Kumar.
Leena Chandavarkar married Siddharth Bandodkar, son of former Goa Chief Minister Dayanand Bandodkar at the age of 24. But after 11 days of marriage, a Siddharth was shot and shot at the age of 25.
Then Leena chose a singer who had done three marriages as her husband. Actually, singer Kishore Kumar became close to her on the beauty of Leena Chandavarkarkar while working in the film Pyaar Ajnabi Hai and Leena also started coming close to her.
Earlier, Kishore Kumar had three weddings (first Ruma Gosh, second wife Madhubala and third wife Yogita Bali). Kishore and Leena had a difference of 20 years. Despite this, both of them got married.
When Leena Chandavarkar and Kishore Kumar got married, the actress had a 7 -month -old baby in his stomach. Actually, Leena’s family was against this marriage. It took a long time for both of them to convince the family. In such a situation, both of them married the court in the year 1980. Then the family believed then he was married again and then Leena was 7 months pregnant.
Leena Chandavarkar said goodbye to the industry after marriage and sacrificed a career for children and family. She was last seen in Mamta’s shade in 1989 with Rajesh Khanna.
Kishore Kumar also died after 7 years of marriage with Leena Chandavarkar. It is said that she still lives with Kishore Kumar’s first wife and children.