BINDIYA GOSWAMI

BINDIYA GOSWAMI - Film Actress

Bindiya Goswami (born 6 January 1962) Bindiya was born in Mumbai and was discovered at a party, when she was just fourteen years old, by superstar Hema Malini's mother. She felt that Bindiya had a resemblance to Hema and recommended her to film producers. Her first Hindi film was "Jeevan Jyoti" where she co-starred with Vijay Arora whose career was on the decline, and the film flopped. Bindiya forged on ahead and soon became a success starring for director Basu Chatterjee in Khatta Meetha (1977) and Prem Vivah (1979). However, her biggest hit was for director Hrishikesh Mukherjee in the comedy Gol Maal (1979). That film's success led her to take Hema Malini's place in the big-budget film Shaan (1980), because Hema was busy with her other film commitments. However, movie was declared as 'average' although it did and still doing good business, but Bindiya Goswami's role was not noticed.^[2] She also appeared in popular film Dada (1979) alongside Vinod Mehra.

Bindiya has taken up designing costumes for female stars such as Rani Mukherjee and Kareena Kapoor for her husband J.P. Dutta's films, such as Border (1997), Refugee (2000) and LOC Kargil (2003).

 She had supposedly claimed that Vijay Arora, her leading man from her first film, harassed her. Her personal life became scandalous when she married her frequent leading man Vinod Mehra. He was already a married man who walked out on a supposedly unconsummated marriage to Meena Broca to be with Bindiya. Both of their families looked down on the marriage, which soon fizzled. Thereafter, Bindiya would give up her acting career to marry director J.P. Dutta, with whom she has two daughters, Nidhi and Siddhi.