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Kalpana Iyer

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{{short description|Indian actress, singer, and model (born 1956)}}
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'''Kalpana Iyer''' (born 17 April 1956) is an [[India]]n actress, singer, and model, who is best known for her works in [[Hindi cinema]] throughout the 1980s and 1990s. She appeared in over 100 films, and is accredited for her performances in many popular dance numbers as well as for her supporting and guest roles in many films.

== Career ==

=== Modelling ===
After being first runner-up at [[Femina Miss India|Miss India]] in 1978,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071227184916/http://www.geocities.com/rahul83_99/mwtth.html Miss India at Miss World: Femina Miss India and Eve's Weekly Delegates to the Miss World Pageant]</ref> she went on to represent her country at the [[Miss World 1978]] beauty pageant where she placed as a top 15 semi-finalist.

=== Acting ===
Kalpana started making full-fledged appearances as a vamp character in a number of Hindi films, continuing in the tradition of [[Bindu (actress)|Bindu]], [[Helen Jairag Richardson|Helen]] and [[Aruna Irani]]. Some of her famous dance numbers were to the songs "Hari om Hari" in ''[[Pyaara Dushman]]'' (1980), "Tu Mujhe Jaan" in ''[[Wardat]]'' (1981) and "Rambha Ho" in ''[[Armaan (1981 film)|Armaan]]'' (1981).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.asianage.com/dance/revisiting-old-memories-kalpana-iyer-880|title=Revisiting old memories with Kalpana Iyer|last=Soparrkar|first=Sandip|date=2015-12-29|website=The Asian Age|access-date=2019-10-27|archive-date=27 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191027010817/https://www.asianage.com/dance/revisiting-old-memories-kalpana-iyer-880|url-status=live}}</ref> Some of her renowned films are ''[[Satte Pe Satta]]'' (1982), ''[[Disco Dancer]]'' (1982), ''[[Anjaam]]'' (1994), ''[[Raja Hindustani]]'' (1996), and ''[[Hum Saath Saath Hain]]'' (1999).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1165337/ |title=Kalpana Iyer |access-date=28 June 2018 |archive-date=28 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181228154842/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1165337/ |url-status=live }}</ref> She was critically acclaimed for her performance as a prison warden in ''[[Anjaam]]'' (in which she was hanged to death), which also featured Bollywood superstars [[Madhuri Dixit]] and [[Shah Rukh Khan]]. As of 2019, Iyer has appeared in a variety of films, as well as working on television.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/kalpana-iyer-i-want-to-work-for-as-long-as-i-can/articleshow/70525442.cms|title=Kalpana Iyer: I want to work for as long as I can|last=Bhattacharya|first=Roshmila BhattacharyaRoshmila|last2=Aug 5|first2=Mumbai Mirror {{!}} Updated|website=Mumbai Mirror|language=en|access-date=2019-10-27|last3=2019|last4=Ist|first4=09:21|archive-date=6 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806101214/https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/kalpana-iyer-i-want-to-work-for-as-long-as-i-can/articleshow/70525442.cms|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Other ventures ===
Iyer is also a pop singer, and is best known for her performances in many shows.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/1999/99may02/sunday/head8.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=25 August 2008 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303193127/http://www.tribuneindia.com/1999/99may02/sunday/head8.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> She is currently managing a restaurant in [[Dubai]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/kalpana-iyer-i-regret-not-getting-married-6435711.html|title=FirstPost|last=|first=|date=|website=|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191027010810/https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/kalpana-iyer-i-regret-not-getting-married-6435711.html|archive-date=27 October 2019|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://policenama.com/raja-hindustani-actress-kalpana-iyer-now-working-restro-dubai/|title=raja hindustani actress kalpana iyer now working restro dubai {{!}} 'राजा हिंदुस्तानी'मधील 'ही' अभिनेत्री पहा आता कशी दिसते ! आर्थिक अडचणींमुळे झाले 'हाल' आता करते 'असं' काम|date=2019-10-04|website=पोलीसनामा (Policenama)|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-27|archive-date=27 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191027010813/https://policenama.com/raja-hindustani-actress-kalpana-iyer-now-working-restro-dubai/|url-status=live}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Despite being considered one of the more daring actresses in her time, Iyer mentioned how she was rather conservative and misunderstood, and due to this had also never married.<ref name=":0" /> Iyer told FirstPost in 2019:
{{Quote|text="I was always misunderstood, you know, as the ‘it-girl’ personifying glamour and oomph. A Miss India, a model, an actress. Everyone assumed I was bold but I was actually very simple… God-fearing, always concerned about ruffling the feathers of my conservative Tam Bram family who were quiet and simple, and into Carnatic music… telling too many white lies to protect too many people."|sign=Kalpana Iyer|source=}}

== Filmography ==
=== Film ===
Throughout her career, Iyer has appeared in over 100 films.

*''[[Poonam (film)|Poonam]]'' (1981)
*''[[Hum Se Badkar Kaun]]''(1981) as Shalu
*''[[Satte Pe Satta]]'' (1982) as Ranjeet Mistress
*''[[Hum Hain Lajawab (1984 film)|Hum Hain Lajawaab]]'' (1984) as Alif-Laila , Dancer
*''[[Nallavanukku Nallavan (film) |Nallavanukku Nallavan]]'' (1984) item number
*''[[Ameer Aadmi Gharib Aadmi]] (1985)
*''[[Zakhmi Aurat]]'' (1988) as Kanta
*''[[Mil Gayee Manzil Mujhe]]''(1989) as Kamini
*''[[Abhi To Main Jawan Hoon]]'' (1989)
*''[[Laadla (1994 film)|''Laadla'' (1994 film)]]'' as Kamini
*''[[Anjaam]]'' (1994) as Jailor Warden
*''[[Gundaraj]]'' (1995) as Public Prosecutor
*''[[Hum Saath Saath Hain]]'' (1999) as Shobha Mishra

=== Television ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year !! Serial !! Role !! Channel
|-
|1992-1993 || ''[[Kashish (serial)|Kashish]]'' || Mrs. Anand (Rahul's mother) || Rowspan="4"|[[DD National]]
|-
|Rowspan="4"|1994||''[[Junoon (1994 TV series)|Junoon]]''|| Parvati
|-
|Chandrakanta (serial)|Chandrakanta || ''Dum Dumi Maai''
|-
|''[[Farmaan]]'' || Tasneem Pasha
|-
|Banegi Apni Baat
|Revati
|Zee Tv
|-
|}

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb name|1165337}}

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Katha 1983 film

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| director = [[Sai Paranjpye]]
| producer = Suresh Jindal
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| starring = [[Naseeruddin Shah]] [[Farooq Shaikh]] [[Deepti Naval]]
| music = [[Raj Kamal]]
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| released = {{Film date|df=yes|22 December 1982}}
| runtime = 141 min
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'''Katha''' (English: Story) is a [[Bollywood films of 1983|1983]] Hindi film by [[Sai Paranjpye]]<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085776 Katha] [[IMDb]]</ref> featuring [[Farooq Sheikh]], [[Naseeruddin Shah]] and [[Deepti Naval]] in the main roles. The film is about the daily lives of people living in a Mumbai ''[[chawl]]''.<ref>[http://www.filmigeek.com/2008/06/katha-1983.html Katha synopsis]</ref> The story is based on S.G. Sathye's Marathi play ''Sasa Aani Kasav'' (Hare and Tortoise), which was also adapted into the 1988 movie ''[[Mukunthetta Sumitra Vilikkunnu]]''.

It was shot on location at ''Salunke Chawl'' in [[Pune]]. [[Jalal Agha]] and [[Sarika]] made guest appearances in the movie. The principal character played by [[Farooque Shaikh]] was named Bashu Bhatt after film maker Basu Bhattacharya.<ref>[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20080427/spectrum/main5.htm There's a lot in a name: The names of characters in movies are often well thought out..] [[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]], 27 April 2008. "Basu Bhattacharya who had earlier produced Sparsh (1980) which Sai directed. Some bitterness was generated between the two over the film's release."</ref>

==Plot==
The film is loosely based on the classic folktale of the hare and the tortoise, providing a modern interpretation. It is based on S.G. Sathye's Marathi play ''Sasa Aani Kasav'' (Hare and Tortoise).

The tortoise — Rajaram P. Joshi ([[Naseeruddin Shah]]) — is a middle-class clerk living in a chawl (a common lower middle-class apartment complex which has several families living in small rooms with common toilets) in Bombay. He is secretly in love with his neighbour Sandhya Sabnis ([[Deepti Naval]]), but is unable to express his love due to his timid nature. Rajaram is a good natured and hardworking man. His neighbours and colleagues take advantage of his simplicity.

One day Rajaram's smooth-talking, roguish friend Vasudev aka Bashu ([[Farooque Shaikh]]) — the hare — comes visiting as a house guest and makes himself at home in the chawl. Bashu makes a good impression on everybody by his charming, friendly behaviour, his extraordinary good looks and exaggerated stories of success.

Bashu starts wooing Sandhya, and she falls in love with him. He then joins Rajaram's company Footprint Shoes by impressing the owner Mr. Dhindhoria with untrue stories about his work experience in "good 'ol' England" and his newfound love of golf. Dhindhoria has a passion for golf and is easily impressed. Typically, Bashu soon starts flirting with Dhindhoria's beautiful and young wife Anuradha ([[Mallika Sarabhai]]) as well as his daughter Jojo ([[Winnie Paranjape]]) by his first marriage, courting both women at the same time.

In the chawl, meanwhile, the Sabnis family decides to get Sandhya married to Bashu much to Rajaram's shock and disappointment. But on the day of the engagement Bashu disappears. The footloose and fancy free youth does not wish to be tied down by marriage. The engagement is called off. Rajaram then offers to marry the devastated Sandhya, but she hints that she has been very intimate with Bashu and is therefore unworthy of Rajaram. Still, Rajaram shows his love by offering to accept her and finally expresses his long repressed love towards her. They get married. Meanwhile, Bashu ensnares an Arab employer and flies off to the Middle East on his next adventure.

==Cast==
*[[Naseeruddin Shah]] as Rajaram Purshottam Joshi
*[[Farooque Shaikh]] as Vasudev (Bashu) Bhatt
*[[Deepti Naval]] as Sandhya Sabnis
*[[Nitin Sethi]] as Mr. Dhindhoria

*[[Sudha Chopra]] as club singer
*[[Arun Joglekar]] as Bhau Sabnis (Sandhya's father)
*[[Suhasini Deshpande]] as Mai (Sandhya's mother)

*[[Winnie Paranjape Joglekar]] as Jojo a.k.a. Jaijaiwanti Dhindhoria
*[[Yatin Karyekar]] as Dancer
*[[Rita Rani Kaul]] as Rajaram's colleague
*[[Leela Mishra]] as Old granny ('dadi amma')
*[[Mallika Sarabhai]] as Anuradha Dhindhoria
*[[Jalal Agha]] as Himself
*[[Sarika]] as Herself
*[[Tinu Anand]] as Himself
Sai Paranjpye was very annoyed with producer Basu Bhattacharya when the release of Sparsh got delayed. 3 years later when she made Katha, she purposely named Farooque Shaikh's character, which had negative shades, Basu Bhatt.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0085776|Katha}}

{{National Film Award Best Feature Film Hindi}}

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