Mala Sinha

Mala Sinha is a Nepalilanguage speaking Nepali Indian actress who has worked in Hindi, Bengali and Nepali films. Recognised for her talent and beauty, she went on to become a popular leading actress in Hindi films from the early 1950s until the late 1970s. Sinha has starred in over a hundred film productions popular ones include Pyaasa , Dhool Ka Phool , Anpadh, Dil Tera Deewana , Gumrah , Himalaya Ki God Mein and Aankhen .

Mala sinha was born to a Madhesi ethnic Nepali parents after they immigrated to West Bengal, India from Madhesh plains of Nepal. Sinha married a Pahari ethnic Nepali actor Chidambar Prasad Lohani of Nepal in 1968. The couple met when they worked together in the Nepali film Maitighar . Lohani had an estate agency business. After her marriage, she used to come and stay in Mumbai to shoot films while her husband stayed in Nepal running his business. She has one daughter from the marriage Pratibha Sinha, who is a former Bollywood actress. From the late 1990s, the couple and their daughter have been residing in a bungalow in Bandra, Mumbai.

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