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Veteran histrion Sandhya Shantaram, woman of precocious filmmaker V Shantaram, has died owed to age-related ailments, her household said connected Saturday (October 4). She was 94.
Sandhya Shantaram was the 3rd woman of the legendary filmmaker and often starred arsenic the starring woman successful films specified arsenic Do Aankhen Barah Haath (1957), Navrang (1959), Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baje (1955), and Pinjra (1972).
Kiran Shantaram, V Shantaram’s lad from his 2nd matrimony with Jayashree, said the seasoned histrion breathed her past connected Friday night. “She passed distant past nighttime astatine 10 p.m. astatine Rajkamal Studio, wherever she had been living. She had been unwell for the past 4 to 5 years, and was suffering from fever and cough recently,” Kiran Shantaram told PTI.
Mahipal and Sandhya successful a inactive from V Shantaram’s Hindi movie “Navrang”
“We would often archer her that she would beryllium with america till she turned 100. The saddest portion was that she did not person children of her ain with my father, but she treated maine and my sisters similar her own. She was precise sweet, a fantastic cook, and would lovingly provender us,” helium said.
The past rites were held connected Saturday greeting astatine Shivaji Park crematorium.
A fashionable histrion of the 1950s and 60s, Sandhya Shantaram worked predominantly successful Hindi and Marathi films. Some of her astir notable films besides see Sehra, Jal Bin Machhli Nritya Bin Bijli, and Amar Bhoopali.
Sandhya and V Shantaram successful a inactive from ‘Stree’ (1961) | Photo Credit: The Hindu Archives
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis connected Saturday condoled the actor’s demise, saying her passing has caused a large nonaccomplishment to the movie world.
“The quality of the passing of seasoned histrion Sandhya Shantaram is highly heartbreaking. Her roles successful galore Marathi films specified arsenic Pinjra and Navrang became immensely popular. She besides made her people successful the Hindi movie industry,” Fadnavis said successful a station connected X.
ज्येष्ठ अभिनेत्री संध्या शांताराम यांच्या निधनाचे वृत्त अतिशय दुःखद आहे.
पिंजरा, नवरंग अशा अनेक मराठी चित्रपटांमध्ये त्यांच्या भूमिका गाजल्या. हिंदी सिनेसृष्टीही त्यांनी गाजवली. विशेषतः 'दो आंखें बारह हाथ' यातील त्यांची भूमिका प्रचंड गाजली होती. जितका कसदार अभिनय, तितकेच दमदार… pic.twitter.com/jCTIfTFBRf
Maharashtra Cultural Affairs Minister Ashish Shelar expressed grief, calling it a large nonaccomplishment to Indian cinema. In a station connected X, Shelar said the quality of the passing of the noted histrion was highly saddening
भावपूर्ण श्रद्धांजली !
'पिंजरा' चित्रपटातील प्रसिद्ध अभिनेत्री संध्या शांताराम जी यांच्या निधनाची बातमी अत्यंत दुःखद आहे.
मराठी व हिंदी चित्रपटसृष्टीत त्यांनी आपल्या अप्रतिम अभिनय आणि नृत्यकौशल्याने प्रेक्षकांच्या मानावर एक वेगळी छाप पाडली. 'झनक झनक पायल बाजे', 'दो आंखें बारह… pic.twitter.com/Gsdq5KuXP9
प्रसिद्ध अभिनेत्री संध्या शांताराम यांच्या पार्थिवाचे दर्शन घेतले. त्यांच्या आत्म्यास चिरशांती लाभो, हीच ईश्वर चरणी प्रार्थना. pic.twitter.com/rPQ5IdNO7b
— Adv. Ashish Shelar - ॲड. आशिष शेलार (@ShelarAshish) October 4, 2025
