Entertainment Desk: Bollywood actress-musician Sulakshana Pandit. He became known in Bolipara in the seventies to eighties. The 69-year-old artist is now far away from Bolipara. Rumor has it that this actress left Bollywood after failing in love!
Sulakshana made her debut on the big screen with the movie ‘Uljhan’ released in 1975. In this movie, he paired up with Bollywood actor Sanjeev Kumar. Bollywood actors like Jeetendra, Rajesh Khanna, Vinod Khanna, Shashi Kapoor, Shatrughan Sinha have got Sulakshana as co-stars.
Sulakshana acted with Uttam Kumar in Bengali movie titled ‘Bandi’ released in 1978. Apart from acting, Sulakshana also made her name in the world of music. He has sung in Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Odisha and Gujarati languages. Sulakshana sang with Kishore Kumar, Hemant Mukhopadhyay, Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi, Udit Narayan.
Sulakshana performed at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1986. In 1996, he gave voice to the last movie song. The singer lent her voice to the song ‘Sagar Kinare Bhi Do Dil’ from the movie ‘Khamoshi: The Musical’.
There are rumors in Balipara that Sulakshana proposed to Sanjeev Kumar. But he turned down the offer of actor Sulakshana. At that time, Sanjeev was in love with another actress. Sanjeev also proposed love to that actress twice. But the actress rejected Sanjeev’s proposal.
Failing in love, Sanjeev decided not to marry. On the other hand, Sulakshana also decided not to marry because she could not marry Sanjeev. But telling Sanjeev about her feelings has an impact on Sulakshana’s career.
After that, Sulakshana got fewer and fewer acting offers. Not getting a job, his heart broke even more. Sulakshana last acted in the movie ‘Do Waqt Ki Roti’ released in 1988. He acted with Sanjeev in this movie.
Sanjeev died of heart attack in 1985. In an interview, Sulakshana’s sister Vijayeta Pandit said – ‘Sulakshana became depressed after Sanjeev’s death.’ In 2006 Vijayeta took Sulakshana to his house. Vijayeta claims, ‘Sulakshana used to keep herself locked up. He did not want to talk to anyone.’
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Then Sulakshana got seriously injured when her foot slipped in the bathroom. He underwent four surgeries. Currently, this actress has difficulty even walking.
