Kalpana kartik biography

Indian film actress

Kalpana Kartik (born Mona Singha) is a retired Hindi film actress. She starred in six films in the 1950s. She is the widow of Hindi film actor and film maker Dev Anand.

Mona Singha was a beauty queen while studying at St. Bede's College, Shimla. She was introduced to films by Chetan Anand of Navketan Films with the film Baazi in 1951. She co-starred with Dev Anand, whom she worked with in all her subsequent films. Her screen name – Kalpana Kartik – was given to her by Chetan Anand during this period.^[1] Her other films were Aandhiyan (1952), Humsafar (1953), Taxi Driver (1954), House No. 44 (1955) and Nau Do Gyarah (1957).

Career

Mona Singha was born in a Punjabi Christian family in Lahore.^[2] Her father was a Tehsildar of Batala in Gurdaspur District and she was the youngest of five brothers and two sisters. After the partition, her family moved to Shimla.

She was a student of the St. Bede's College

Chetan Anand

Kalpana Kartik (born Mona Singha) is a retired Hindi film actress.

Priya Rajvansh

Featuring in six notable films in the 50s, Kalpana Kartik stayed away from the screen and remained appeased being superstar Dev Anand’s wife.

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Kalpana Kartik (born Mona Singha) is a retired Hindi film actress.She starred in six films in the 1950s.

Kalpana Kartik Age, Husband, Family, Biography, Facts & More

S. D. Burman

Kalpana Kartik was born on Septem in Lahore, India.

Vijay Anand (filmmaker)

He even gave her the screen name- Kalpana Kartik.

Ayub Khan (actor)

Kalpana Kartik was born on Septem in Lahore, India.

Suneil Anand

Kalpana Kartik was born on 19 September in Lahore, India.