Sulochana Latkar

Sulochana Latkar is a Marathi actor, popularized by portraying the roles of mothers in films. Latkar was delivered on July 30, 1928, in Khadaklat village, Chikodi Taluk, Belgaum District, Karnataka. Her popular screen name is Sulochana. She has acted in over 250 films, such as “Vahinichya Bangdya”, “Meeth Bhakar”, “Muqaddar Ka Sikandar”, “Dhakti Jau” and “ Sujata Sujata was a Hindi television drama that was aired >> Read More... ”.

In 2003, on the anniversary of the birth of Baburao Painter Baburao Painter was born on 3rd June 1890. He was >> Read More... , who played a major role in the foundation of modern Marathi cinema, Sulochana was felicitated with the Chitrabhushan Award from the Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Chitrapat Mahamandal. She has also been felicitated with the Maharashtra Bhushan Award by the Maharashtra government, and the Padma Shri (in 1999).

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Sulochana Latkar was an Indian actress who predominantly worked in Marathi and Hindi cinema. Her others name are Nagabai and Rangu Diwan. She has acted in over three hundred films in Hindi and around fifty films in Marathi. She was the daughter of a policeman. She married Abasaheb Chavan at the age of fifteen. She had a daughter named Kanchan Ghanekar who was the wife of popular stage actor and dental surgeon Dr. Kashinath Ghanekar Kashinath Ghanekar was born in 1940. He began his >> Read More... . Following her parent’s death, Sulochana Latkar, her elder brother, and her widowed aunt shifted to Kolhapur from their native village. To help her family sustain itself financially, she began working at the film studio of Kolhapur’s Prafulla Pictures owned by Master Vinayak Master Vinayak was a successful Marathi film direc >> Read More... . While working at Prafulla Pictures, she met the legend Lata Mangeshkar Lata Mangeshkar, the veteran playback singer, had >> Read More... . After the company shifted from Kolhapur to Mumbai, she quit her job at Prafulla Studios. In 1943, she appeared in a Marathi film “Chimukla Sansar.” The following year, she acted in a 1944 Hindi mythological film, “ Maharathi Karna Actor cum director Sanjay Khan had made this TV se >> Read More... .” She appeared in a Tamil film “ Valmiki Click to look into! >> Read More... ” in 1946. In 1947, she portrayed the lead role for the first time in the Marathi film, “Sasurvas.” After leaving her job at the Prafulla Studios, she was hired by Kolhapur's Jayaprabha Studio, owned by the filmmaker Bhalji Pendharkar. She also took classes in horse riding while working at Jayaprabha Studio. After that, she went to Pune, where she started working with Mangal Pictures. In 1953, she shifted to Bombay from Pune. Sulochana Latkar marked her debut in films in 1946. From 1946 to 1961, she worked as a lead actress in Marathi films such as "Sasurvas” (1946), “Sangtye Aika” (1959), “Bhaubheej,” “Mothi Manse,” “Lakshmi Ali Ghara,” “Jivacha Sakha,” Sukhache Sobti,” “Akashganga,” and “Dhakti Jau.” Throughout her career in Hindi films, Sulochana Latkar was often paired opposite Trilok Kapoor, Nazir Hussain, and Ashok Kumar. She once said in an interview that she loved portraying the mother role to three actors Dev Anand, Rajesh Khanna, and Sunil Dutta.

She is often portrayed mother or as a close relative in Hidi-language films with Sunil Dutta, such as Jhoola, Heera, Sujatha, Mehrbaan (1967), Ek Phool Char Kante, Bhai Bahen (1969), Reshma Aur Shera, Umar Qaid, Jaani Dushman, and Badle Ki Aag. She worked regularly in films with Dev Anand in the lead roles in such films, as Jab yar Kisise Hota Hai, Duniya (1968), Pyar Mohabbat, Jhonny Mera Naam, Amir Garib, and many more. She is often portrayed on screen close relative to the character played by Rajesh Khanna in Dil Daulat Duniya, Mere Jeevan Saathi, Prem Nagar, Adhikar (1986), Aashiq Hoon Baharaon Ka, and many more. Sulochana Latkar was a recipient of India's fourth-highest civilian award, the Padma Shri, in 1999.

In 2003, she was honored with the Chitrabhushan Award. In 2004, she earned the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award. She won the Hridaynath Mangeshkar Award four times. In 2009, she earned Maharashtra’s highest civilian award, Maharashtra Bhushan by the Government of Maharashtra. In 2019, she was awarded with Saraswatibai Dadasaheb Phalke Lifetime Achievement Award. Sulochana Latkar died on June 4, 2023, in Dadar in Mumbai, Maharashtra. She died due to respiratory failure at Shushrusha Hospital.

Latkar Family Tree (Infographic Family Tree)