1. Shanta Apte was an Indian actress-singer who worked in Marathi and Hindi cinema.
18 Facts About Shanta Apte
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Shanta Apte began her career in films playing the role of a young Radha in the Marathi film Shyamsunder.
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Shanta Apte joined Prabhat Films acting in her first Hindi language film Amrit Manthan in.
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Shanta Apte brought a change in the static style of song renditions in films with her "spontaneous gestures and eye movements".
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Shanta Apte was one of the earliest Indian cinema actors to write her autobiography Jau Mi Cinemat in Marathi.
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Shanta Apte studied music at the Maharashtra Sangeet Vidyalaya in Pandharpur.
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Shanta Apte was introduced in films as a child artiste at the age of nine years, by the actor-director Baburao Pendharkar.
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The "guidance" of her older brother Baburao Shanta Apte, who acted in Shanta Apte's first film Shyamsunder as Radha's husband, was stated to be a help in her rise to stardom.
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Shanta Apte started her acting career when she was discovered at the age of nine years by Baburao Pendharkar and then cast in the Bhalji Pendharkar-directed film Shyamsunder.
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Shanta Apte rendered four solo songs under the music direction of Keshavrao Bhole, including the first recorded filmi ghazal, "Kamsini Mein Dil Pe Gham Ka".
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In 1938, Apte acted in another famous film from Prabhat Films, directed by V Shantaram, called Gopal Krishan.
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Shanta Apte acted with Noor Jehan in Duhai in 1943, a social melodrama where Noor Jehan played the second lead.
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In 1946, Shanta Apte acted in four films with Subhadra being a "mythological comedy", which was produced and directed by Master Vinayak and co-starred Yakub, Ishwarlal and Lata Mangeshkar.
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Shanta Apte has been referred to as a woman who "symbolized women power both on and off the screen".
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Shanta Apte defied her contractual agreement with Prabhat Films when it hampered her from acting in outside films and decided to stage a fast in front of the studio gates.
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Shanta Apte was released from her contract by Prabhat Films.
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Nayana claimed Shanta Apte married a distant cousin in 1947 and left him when she was three months pregnant.
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Shanta Apte died of a heart attack following a six-month illness, on 24 February 1964, at her residence in Andheri, Mumbai, Maharashtra.