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

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, 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) and mother of

Ketan Anand Ketan Anand is an Indian film director. He is son of film-maker Chetan Anand and actress Uma Anand. He is the cousin of director Shekhar Kapur. He has directed the movies Toote Khilone and ''Shart'' and was associate producer of Heer Raanjh ...

and Vivek Anand. She worked as an actress in '' Neecha Nagar'' (1946). She also wrote ''

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'' with her husband Chetan and her brother-in-law Vijay Anand, that starred her mother's cousin Kalpana Kartik and her brother-in-law

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. After estrangement from her husband, she became a companion of

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. She died on 13 November 2009.

Life

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

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of India. Her last book, ''Chetan Anand: The Poetics of Film'', was co-authored with her eldest son Ketan Anand, and it portrayed life in the theatre and cinema in

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, India in the early 1940s and 1950s.

Filmography

* '' Neecha Nagar (1946)'' * '' Taxi Driver (1954)''

References

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