B’wood celebs, kin bid adieu to Sadhana

Last rites of veteran Bollywood actress Sadhana Shivdasani were performed on Saturday at a crematorium in suburban Santacruz in the presence of a few celebrities and her family members

Updated At : 06:29 AM Dec 27, 2015 IST

Asha Parekh and Waheeda Rehman at sadhana’s funeral in Mumbai on saturday. PTI

Last rites of veteran Bollywood actress Sadhana Shivdasani were performed on Saturday at a crematorium in suburban Santacruz in the presence of a few celebrities and her family members
The 74-year-old actress passed away on Friday at a hospital in suburban Mahim after a long battle with cancer
Film personalities, including Helen, Salim Khan, Deepti Naval, Raza Murad and Poonam Sinha, were present to pay their last respects
"The yesteryear actress, who was hospitalised for high fever, passed away around 10 am," Sadhana's close associate and advocate Ameet Mehta said
One of the top actresses of Hindi film's golden era in the 1960s and ’70s, she became the first cine star to have a hairstyle famously named after her
Born in a Sindhi family in Karachi, British India, she was named after her father's favourite actress-dancer Sadhana Bose
Her family fled from Karachi during the post-Partition riots and settled in Mumbai
She was only 15 when she was approached by some producers who had seen her act in a college play

B’wood celebs, kin bid adieu to Sadhana

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