SUHASINI MULAY

SUHASINI MULAY - Film Actress/Model

Suhasini was born on 20^th November 1950 in Patna where she spent the early part of her childhood. She lost her father when she was only three and was brought up by her mother, Vijaya Mulay. She was attracted toward films because of her.

In 1965 she was chosen by Pears Soap to be its model. It was this ad film which caught Mrinal Sen's attention and he signed her for Bhuvan Shome (1969).

Though Bhuvan Shome proved to be a milestone in Indian cinema, Suhasini did not pursue acting as a career. Instead she enrolled at the prestigious McGill University in Montreal, Canada for a course in agricultural technology with specialization in soil chemistry and microbiology. She also obtained a degree in mass communication, and majored in film, radio, TV, journalism and print from the same university.

Suhasini returned to India in 1975 and worked as an assistant to Satyajit Ray in the Bengali film Jana Aranya. Later she joined Mrinal Sen as an assistant director in Mrigaya. Since then, she has been actively producing films and has made over 60 documentaries. She achieved national awards for four of them.

Close to 30 years after Bhuvan Shome, she made a great comeback into mainstream Bollywood cinema, through Gulzar's Hu Tu Tu for which she received another national award as the best supporting actress. She has been playing motherly roles in Bollywood since then. She had worked in Jaane Kya Baat Hui, a television serial/programme that aired on Colors TV and Rishtey. She played as Nirmala Sareen, the mother of Bharat, Shailendra and Akshay Sareen. She too was with Aradhna Sareen (Shweta Tiwari), trying to get Shailendra out of Raveena's clutches.

She is supposed to have had a live in relationship which ended in 1990. Suhasini Mulay was used to living alone however on January, 16 2011 she got married at Arya Samaj with a physicist Prof. Atul Gurtu.