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• Made her screen debut aged fourteen in Hamari Beti (1950), which was directed by her mother Shobhna Samarth.
• Five-time winner of the Filmfare Best Actress Award, the first time for Seema (1956) and the last time for Main Tulsi Tete Aangan Ki (1978).
• In 1974 she was honoured by the Indian government with the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award.
• Both Naseebwala (1992) and Insaniyat (1994) were released after her death.
• A postage stamp bearing her face was issued in 2011.
• Ranked the third-greatest actress of all time by the users of Rediff.com.
• Her life has been well-captured by the famous Marathi writer Lalita Tamhane in the book Nutan - Asen Mi Nasen Mi.