Patil Smita is a legendary Bollywood actress, laureate of the National Award of India, an activist of the feminist movement in this country. A beautiful and talented woman who died very young, but still remains one of the most popular actresses in India.
Biography
Smita Patil was born in October 1955 in the ancient Indian town of Pune, which is considered the cultural capital of the country and is filled with educational institutions and ancient architecture. The girl's father was a local politician, and her mother was a social worker. The family lived comfortably, and the daughters were given a good education.
Since childhood, Smith was worried about the position of women in Indian society and she decided to appear on television, raising sensitive social issues. After graduating from the Film and Television Institute in Pune in 1977, Patil already had experience with the camera, serving as a presenter for a news program.
Career
In the same year, 1977, a film with Patil Smith's participation "A Difficult Role" was released - the story of how a man "raised" himself a rich and famous bride, helping a neighbor's girl to succeed, so that later he would marry her and provide for himself. old age. Smith starred, receiving the National Award and Popular Love for the film.
The girl became the favorite actress of the famous director and producer Shyam Benegal, a master of realistic cinema, who constantly invited her to his projects with a political and social bias. On account of the Smiths and several commercial Bollywood films. She calmly played in Indian films in any languages and dialects of the country, which aroused the admiration of the audience.
Patil quickly became one of the prominent women rights activists in India. All her characters are strong and independent beauties who, like her, reject degrading old traditions, advocating equal rights with men. For 13 years, Smith starred in 77 films, and three more came out after the tragic death of the actress.
Personal life and death
Smita met her future husband, Raj Babbar, while filming Shyam Benegal. Passion immediately flared up between them, despite the fact that the man was married and had two children. But Patil did not stop this, she always confidently walked towards her goal, while, in fact, betraying her moral principles. Everyone condemned her, even her parents.
Raj's wife, Nadira, an actress and theater director, at first did not believe that her husband was having an affair with another woman. And when the facts surfaced, in order to save the family, she agreed to accept a mistress, only asked that her husband not destroy the family. Still Patil and Raj got married.
But very soon, literally a year after the wedding, in 1986, Patil died of postpartum complications. The child, the son of Pratik, survived. After Smith's death, Raj returned to his first family, and the boy stayed with Smith's parents. Subsequently he became an actor.
