Nalini Jaywant was born in Mumbai on 18 Feb. 1926. During the years of 1940 to 1950, she became the top actress of Indian Bollywood film industry. Tanuja and Nutan's mother was the first cousin of Shobhna Samarth. She married to director Vrender Desai which couldn't last long. Then she married to actor Prabhu Dayal and also did some movies with him. Nalini Jaywant died on 20 December, 2010 at the age of 84 years. She lonely spent her last 60 years of her life in a bangalow in Mumbai's union park. In the beginning, it wasn't felt appropriate by the people to work in the films. Nalini Jaywant belonged to a typical Marathi family, but when she stepped in the film industry, so she was recognized by her personality. She debuted with the film 'Radhika' in 1941, and her last film is 'Nastak'. She didn't work in the films after it, and got completely disappeared from the film industry till 22 years. She showed in 2005 when she was honored with 'Lifetime Achievement Award' at the 136's funeral of her grandfather Phalke. She revealed some of her secrets of life during this award, "according to which she was born in Mumbai's village Gur, and she raised there. Her father was a government officer, and she was the only sister of two brothers. She loved to dance a lot so she learnt lessons of dance from Mohan Lal, and she also learnt singing during that." She told that Imperial cinema was near to her home and she used to go there to watch film often. She couldn't think of becoming an actress those times. Notan's mother Shobna was her pure-aunty who had already achieved high value by working in films, but Nalini's father and her whole family weren't quite happy from her. Mukesh debuted his film career as an actor and singer in 1941 so he introduced Nalini in a film made by National studio. Nalini went to her cousin's home Shobna on the birthday of Notan, where she met a person who belonged to National studio, film 'Radhika' preparation were being made. Nalini was 14-year-old and that was the age they needed for the film. The person who belonged to National studio offered Nalini for a film, but when Nalini's father knew this he denied, but then Shobna persuaded her mother. 1941's released film 'Radhika' director was Vrender Desai. Nalini married to Vendor Desai in 1945, and Nalini's film career was going superb. She was given an award from Bengal Board Of Film Journalists for filmistan film 'Mazdoor'. Vrender Desai was thinking of second marriage because of her business and family's force, and because of which many film production houses broke relation with Nalini.
They both had to move in to a rental house. Desai and Nalini were employee at Filmistan, and they were paid monthly wages. They both weren't given a chance to work in films which were made those days so they were being paid without doing any work. The reason was that Nalini had a condition that she would only work under the direction of her husband V. Desai. Both of them were so tensed, and the filmmakers was also forgetting Nalini's name. Nalini who deeply loved V. Desai couldn't managed her marriage, and they split up in 1948. After the divorce, Nalini's film career got up once again. She gave great films with stars like Dilip Kumar 'Anokha Pyar', Trilok Kapoor 'Gunjan', Bharat Bhoshan 'Ankhain', Dev Anand 'Hindustan Hamara' and Kishore Kumar 'Muqaddar'. Film 'Ankhain' was more valuable because singer Madan Mohan debuted his splendid career from this film. Nalini Jaywant also sang song in this film, and they were pretty appreciated by the audience. The film which gave Nalini the honor of being a great actress was 'Samadhi'. Bombay's talkies film 'Jang' was also successful this year. Both of the films had hero Ashuk Kumar and singer Ram Chandara. 1950's was very busy period for Nalini. She had 41 films released during the period of 1951 to 1961 beside 'Bhai Ka Pyaar', 'Aik Nazar', 'Jadu', 'Nand Kishore', 'Nojawan', 'Doraha', 'Kafila', 'Rahi', 'Shikast', 'Shair', 'Lakeerien', 'Mehbooba', 'Naaz', 'Miss Bombay', 'Kitna Badal Gaya Insan', 'Mr. X', 'Sheroo', 'Kala Pani', 'Milan', 'Chingari', 'Jai Mahadev', 'Lagan', 'Maa Ke Aansu'. 1954's film 'Naaz' is the first Hindi film which shooting was done in Caira and London. In 1954, Subodh Mukherjee released his first debuted film as a director named 'Railway Platform' by which Sunil Dutt stepped in film industry. Film 'Chingari' was released in 1955 in which Nalini sang once again. Nalini only did five films during the period of 1960's. Nalini married to the director of film 'Amar Hai Yeh Mohabbat', Prabhu Dayal. Prabhu acted in films like 'Hum Dono' and 'Duniya', and he also directed films 'Hum Dono', 'Tere Ghar Ke Samne' and 'Gambler'. After the release of 1965's 'Bombay Race Course', Nalini bid farewell to film industry, and she didn't show herself in films parties. Though she was seen in 1983's released film 'Nastik' as a mother of Amitabh Bachchan, after 18 years. Though Nalini realized that her time is over and her role wasn't appreciated by the audience so she felt completely sad, and she didn't work in any film after that. Nalini did 60 movies during the years of 1941 to 1965, and her couple with Ashuk Komar was liked. her film 'Kishore' was released in 1951. It was also released in Marathi language as well as Hindi. Nalini sang 39 songs in nine films. After the death of her loving husband, Prabhu Dayal, Nalini lived alone in her big bangalow. She didn't have any kid. Brother's son and her family were lived near to her house who took care of Nalini. She was born on 18 February, 1926 and left this world on 24 December, 2010. She passed away at the age of 85. Her funeral's arrangements were organized in her residence. Nalini was a brave woman and she wanted to live her own life by herself without asking anyone for help. Nalini earned so much wealth in her life, and her husband also left so much property for her, but having no children was quite dreadful for her. It is still a secret that what happened with Nalini's property and Bangalow? Government is quiet on this matter, and Nalini's grandson has named her whole property to his name, but an official announcement wasn't called for this.
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