1. Leena Chandavarkar was very active during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
10 Facts About Leena Chandavarkar
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Leena Chandavarkar played the leading heroine opposite almost all the veteran actors of that era and was frequently paired with Rajesh Khanna, Dharmendra, Jeetendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Vinod Khanna, Shammi Kapoor, Dilip Kumar, Sunil Dutt, and Raaj Kumar.
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Leena Chandavarkar was born to an army officer Sreenath Chandavarkar at Dharwad in Karnataka in 1950.
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Leena Chandavarkar was one of the topmost heroines in early 70s alongside Hema Malini and Mumtaz.
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Leena Chandavarkar had an elder brother Anil Chandavarkar who married director Atma Ram's daughter and has a daughter from the marriage.
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Leena Chandavarkar made her debut in Man Ka Meet for Sunil Dutt, and it was his wife Nargis who groomed her to be an actress.
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Leena Chandavarkar was cast opposite many of popular heroes of that era.
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Leena Chandavarkar gave one of her best performances in Mehboob Ki Mehndi with Rajesh Khanna in 1971.
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Leena Chandavarkar appeared as a guest judge for the first 2 episodes of "K for Kishore", a new reality TV singing show launched by Sony TV during December 2007.
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Leena Chandavarkar had an arranged marriage to her first husband, Siddharth Bandodkar, who came from a prominent Goan-Marathi political family.