Quick Info

ProfessionActress
NationalityIndian
Date of Birth15/11/1947
Age71 years (died on 15, Aug, 2019)
BirthplaceMumbai, India
Date of Death15/08/2019

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Physical Stats & More

Height163 cm
Weight70 kg
Eye ColorBlack
Hair ColorBlack

Personal Life

Birth PlaceMumbai, India
Place of DeathCritiCare Hospital, Mumbai
Death CauseHeart and lung disorders
ReligionHinduism
CasteKayastha
Food HabitVegetarian
HobbiesCooking

Relationships & More

Marital Status (at the time of death)Divorced
Affairs/Boyfriends
  • Venkateshwaran Iyer
  • Netaji Bhimrao Salunkhe (Australian doctor)
Marriage Date
Year1968
WithVenkateshwaran Iyer

Family

FatherRana Pratap Singh (Film Producer)
MotherName
Spouse
  • Venkateshwaran Iyer
  • 1968-1996 (his death)
  • Netaji Bhimrao Salunkhe
  • 2001-2009 (divorced)
ChildrenJanhavi Iyer (adopted in 1989), and one more adopted daughter

Career

Started career as a model and won Miss Bombay title.
Debut film: Raja Kaka (1974) opposite Kiran Kumar.
Breakthrough with Rajnigandha (1974) directed by Basu Chatterjee.
Known for Chhoti Si Baat (1975) and Pati Patni Aur Woh (1978).
Television comeback with Kkavyanjali (2004).
Appeared in Haar Jeet (2011) on NDTV Imagine.
Last film role in Bodyguard (2011) with Salman Khan.

Some Lesser Known Facts

1. Vidya Sinha's father was a producer and director.
2. Her mother passed away during Vidya's birth, so the responsibility was taken up by her maternal grandfather, the renowned director Mohan Sinha.
3. Initially not keen on pursuing acting, she was encouraged by one of her aunts to enter and ended up winning the Miss Bombay beauty pageant at the age of 17.
4. Following her contest win, Vidya Sinha ventured into modeling and featured in several magazines.
5. At 18, she married her neighbor, Venkateshwaran Iyer, in 1968.
6. Basu Chatterjee gave her a break with the successful movie "Rajnigandha" (1974), becoming her mentor afterward.
7. Although offered the role of Roopa in "Satyam Shivam Sundaram," she turned it down due to discomfort with the costumes worn by Zeenat Aman for the same part.
8. Throughout her career, Vidya Sinha worked alongside respected actors like Sanjeev Kumar, Vinod Khanna, Vinod Mehra, and Shashi Kapoor.
9. As a leading actress in the industry for over 12 years, she adopted a daughter named Jahnvi Sinha during the peak of her career.
10. After her husband's demise in 1996, Vidya Sinha and her daughter relocated to Australia, where she later remarried Dr. Netaji Bhimrao Salunke in 2001, but the marriage ended in divorce in 2009.
11. She returned to India in 2004 and made a television comeback with Ekta Kapoor's "Kkavyanjali."
12. The reason behind their divorce was Vidya Sinha's claims of mental and physical torture by her second husband, leading her to file an FIR against him.
13. Vidya Sinha is known for her love of animals.
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