Uma Anand

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Uma
Born1923 (1923)
Lahore, British India
Died13 November 2009(2009-11-13) (aged 85–86)
NationalityIndian
OccupationJournalist, Actress, Broadcaster
Spouse(s)
​
(
m. 1943; died 1997)
Children2; Ketan Anand and Vivek Anand

Uma Anand (1923 – 13 November 2009) was an Indian journalist, actress, and a broadcaster in the mid-1900s.

She was born in 1923 in Lahore, Punjab, British India to a prominent Bengali Christian family. One of her sisters, Indu Mitha, is a Bharatnatyam exponent based in Pakistan. Uma was the wife of the prominent Bollywood film director Chetan Anand (married in 1943)[1] and mother of Ketan Anand and Vivek Anand. She worked as an actress in Neecha Nagar (1946). She also wrote Taxi Driver with her husband Chetan and her brother-in-law Vijay Anand, that starred her mother's cousin Kalpana Kartik[2] and her brother-in-law Dev Anand.[3] After estrangement from her husband, she became a companion of Ebrahim Alkazi.[4] She died on 13 November, 2009.[5]

Life[edit]

From 1965 to 1981, Anand was an editor of Sangeet Natak, a journal published by the Sangeet Natak Akademi. She also wrote many children books that were translated and published in different Indian languages by National Book Trust of India.[6] Her last book, Chetan Anand: The Poetics of Film, was co-authored with her eldest son Ketan Anand,[7] and it portrayed life in the theatre and cinema in Mumbai, India in the early 1940s and 1950s.

Filmography[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "Chetan Anand - The Dynasty Founder". film ka ilm. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
  2. ↑ "Kalpana Kartik – Interview". cineplot.com. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
  3. ↑ "www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fri". thehindu.com. Retrieved 7 September 2017. [dead link]
  4. ↑ "'Mother India' Uma Anand". The Hindu. 20 November 2009. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  5. ↑ Singh, Khushwant. "Flowers appear on plant". The Telegraph. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  6. ↑ Suresh, Kohli (20 November 2009). "'Mother India' Uma Anand". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
  7. ↑ Aditi, Tandon. "Family Affair". The Tribune. Retrieved 28 December 2012.


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