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Lalita Pawar

1916 - 1998

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Lalita Pawar (née Amba Laxmanrao Shagun; 18 April 1916 – 24 February 1998) was a prolific Indian actress, who later became famous as a character actress, appearing in over 700 films in Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati cinema. She holds a Guinness world record of longest acting career spanning over 70 years. Pawar won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the comedy-drama Anari. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lalita Pawar has received more than 1,530,935 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Lalita Pawar is the 6,942nd most popular actor (up from 7,512th in 2019), the 824th most popular biography from India (down from 784th in 2019) and the 134th most popular Indian Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Lalita Pawar ranks 6,942 out of 13,578. Before her are Morris Chestnut, Marina Foïs, Nidal Al Achkar, Stephen Furst, Donald Petrie, and James Wilby. After her are Ruth Roland, Engin Öztürk, Martha Mansfield, Chun Jung-myung, Peter Cook, and Wi Ha-joon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Lalita Pawar ranks 281. Before her are Shobhna Samarth, Jeannette Campbell, Marie Wilson, Roderick Chisholm, Peter Geach, and Rupert Davies. After her are Bohumil Modrý, Vivian McGrath, Clare Dennis, Walker Percy, Don Keefer, and Martha Raye. Among people deceased in 1998, Lalita Pawar ranks 292. Before her are Augusto Magli, Elio Morille, Tommy Flowers, James Lighthill, Hammond Innes, and Dan Osman. After her are E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Valerie Hobson, Dušan Pašek, Ran Laurie, Aleksey Spiridonov, and John Hunt, Baron Hunt.

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In India

Among people born in India, Lalita Pawar ranks 824 out of 1,861. Before her are Jamnalal Bajaj (1889), Nain Singh (1830), Madhavrao Scindia (1945), Manorama (1937), Vani Jairam (1945), and Smita Patil (1955). After her are Nirmala Deshpande (1929), E. M. S. Namboodiripad (1909), Amjad Ali Khan (1945), George Caridia (1869), Sonu Sood (1973), and Anil Ambani (1959).

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Among ACTORS In India

Among actors born in India, Lalita Pawar ranks 134. Before her are Shobhna Samarth (1916), Karisma Kapoor (1974), Boman Irani (1959), Anjali Devi (1927), Manorama (1937), and Smita Patil (1955). After her are Sonu Sood (1973), Sitara Devi (1920), Geeta Bali (1930), Paresh Rawal (1955), Tabu (1971), and Neetu Singh (1958).

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Television and Movie Roles

Anand
Mrs. D'Sa
Dr. Bhaskar Bannerjee struggles with his patients' suffering and the darkness and poverty he confronts daily. He treats cancer patient Anand who upon learning of his impending death determines to use the time he has left to the absolute fullest.
Mar 12th 19717 / 10
रामायण
Ramayan is a highly successful and phenomenally popular Indian epic television series created, written, and directed by Ramanand Sagar. The 78 episode series originally aired weekly on Doordarshan from 25 January 1987, to 31 July 1988, on Sundays at 9:30 a.m. IST. It is a television adaptation of the ancient Indian Hindu religious epic of the same name and is primarily based on Valmiki's Ramayan and Tulsidas' Ramcharitmanas. It is also partly derived from portions of Kamban's Ramavataram and other works.
8.2 / 10
Shree 420
Ganga Mai
The story of a small-town man who comes to make it big in the city, where he is almost instantly relieved of all his possessions. Homeless and penniless, he is taken in by a woman who looks after him.
Sep 6th 19557.5 / 10