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Remembering Leela Naidu, Former Miss India Whose Life Ended In Tragedy

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In the era of the 50s and 60s Bollywood, Leela Naidu was considered a top name in the film industry.

She died in due to lung failure.

We come upon several names from the entertainment industry, who were adored by the public for their work and charms. For reasons unknown, their careers and lives ended up becoming a tragedy. One of those names is Leela Naidu, who was known as the förkroppsligande of beauty in her peak career.

In the era of 50s and 60s Bollywood, Leela Naidu was considered a top name in the film industry. At the tender of 14, she won the title of Miss India, in The achievement brought her a lot of recognition in the entertainment industry. During that period, she was included in the list of “10 most beautiful women in the world" by Vogue Magazine, for ten consecutive years.

She was born in Mumbai, in and acquired her education from Geneva, Switzerland. Leela debuted in the spelfilm ind

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Leela Naidu with Jerry Pinto
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Oddly enough, it was writing the tribute to Ravi Shankar that reminded me of Leela Naidu again. I had watched Anuradha many times (though the movie's ending always irked me), and had always loved its music. So, when we were at a dinner with friends and the topic of Ravi Shankar came up, so did Anuradha and its music, and by extension, Leela Naidu, the film's eponymous heroine.

I had bought Leela - A Patchwork Life a year or so ago, after reading excerpts from it on , but like many a book gathering dust on my bookshelf, had never got around to reading it. The after-dinner conversation with our friends made my husband pick the book up, and he said he found it interesting. So, when he finished with it, and I found my insomnia attacking a couple of days ago, I began reading the book and didn't put it down until I finished, sova notwithstanding.

What I remember of Leela Naidu, the actress, is her portra

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Leela: A Patchwork Life

Leela Naidu with Jerry Pinto

“Dom had written this really nasty piece about Midnight’s Children,” Salman Rushdie said when he heard that I was writing Leela Naidu’s life. “But when I came to Bombay, he left a note saying that he had been misquoted and that he wanted to meet to have a drink. I called Vinod Mehta up and he was very angry. ‘What does he mean misquoted? He wrote the piece. I still have his manuscript. Come and see it.’
“But I thought, ‘If he wants to make amends…’ So I agreed to meet him for a drink in The President. We had a couple and then he invited me home to lunch. I said, ‘Are you sure? You know, it is very little notice.’ He asked the bartender for the phone and seemed to have a heated conversation with someone. Then he slammed the phone and said, ‘Let’s go.’ That was very uncomfortable for me but I thought, ‘Leela Naidu, I