Kalpana may refer to:

Film and television

* ''Kalpana'' (1948 film), an Indian Hindi-language dance film * ''Kalpana'' (1960 film), a romantic Bollywood film * ''Kalpana'' (1970 film), an Indian Malayalam film * ''Kalpana'' (2012 film), an Indian Kannada-language comedy horror film ** '' Kalpana 2'', its 2016 sequel * ''Kalpana'' (TV series), an Indian TV series * Kalpana Shetty, fictional character in the 2008 Indian film '' Ghajini'', played by Asin

People

Mononym

Kalpana (Kannada actress) Kalpana (18 July 1943 – 12 May 1979), born Lata, was an Indian actress who appeared in Kannada films. She was affectionately referred to as ''Minugu Taare'' ("A Shining Star") among the film fraternity. She was widely recognised as one of the ...

(1943–1979), Indian Kannada film actress *

Kalpana (Malayalam actress) Kalpana Ranjani (5 October 1965 – 25 January 2016), better known mononymously as Kalpana, was an Indian actress who appeared in South Indian films, predominantly in Malayalam and Tamil. Kalpana has acted in over 300 films in various Sou ...

(1965–2016), Indian Malayalam film actress

Surname

* Venkatacher Kalpana (born 1961), Indian cricketer

Given name

* Kalpana Chakma, Bangladeshi indigenous women's rights activist *

Kalpana Chawla Kalpana Chawla (March 17, 1962 – February 1, 2003) was an American astronaut and aerospace engineer who was the first woman of Indian origin to fly to space. Chawla expressed an interest in aerospace engineering from an early age and took engi ...

(1961–2003), Indian American astronaut lost in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster *

Kalpana Dash Kalpana Dash (; 7 July 1966 – 23 May 2019) was an Indian mountaineer and the first Odia climber to scale Mount Everest. She scaled Mount Everest on 21 May 2008, along with a team of five members from the United States, Canada and Nepal. She h ...

(born 1966), Indian lawyer and mountaineer *

Kalpana Datta Kalpana Datta (27 July 1913 – 8 February 1995), also Kalpana Joshi, was an Indian independence movement activist and a member of the armed independence movement led by Surya Sen, which carried out the Chittagong armoury raid in 1930. Later s ...

(1913–1995), Indian independence movement activist and fighter *

Kalpana Iyer Kalpana Iyer (born 26 July 1956) is an Indian former actress, singer, and model, who is best known for her works in Hindi cinema throughout the 1980s and 1990s. She appeared in over 100 films, and is accredited for her performances in many popu ...

(born c. 1950), Indian beauty pageant contestant and Hindi film actress * Kalpana. K (born 1980), Indian aerospace engineer and scietist *

Kalpana Kartik Kalpana Kartik (born Mona Singha) is a retired Hindi film actress. She starred in six films in the 1950s. She is the widow of Hindi film actor and film maker Dev Anand. Mona Singha was a beauty queen while studying at St. Bede's College, Shi ...

(born 1931), Indian Hindi film actress *

Kalpana Lajmi Kalpana Lajmi (1954–2018) was an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. Lajmi was an independent filmmaker working more on realistic, low-budget films, which are known in India as parallel cinema. Her films were often woman-oriented ...

(1954–2018), Indian film director, producer and screenwriter *

Kalpana Mohan Kalpana (born Archana Mohan; 18 July 1946 – 4 January 2012) was an Indian actress who worked in Hindi cinema in the 1960s. She featured alongside notable actors such as Shammi Kapoor in the film ''Professor'' (1962), Shashi Kapoor and Kishore ...

(1946–2012), Indian Hindi film actress *

Kalpana Ramesh Narhire Narhire Kalpana Ramesh () (born 25 October 1969) is a Shiv Sena politician from Osmanabad district. She was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India representing Osmanabad constituency of Maharashtra Maharashtra () is a state in the west ...

(born 1969), Indian politician from Osmanabad, Maharashtra *

Kalpana Pandit Kalpana Pandit (born 20 January 1967) is an Indian actress, model, and emergency physician. She owns the film production company ''House of Pandit (TM)''. She is known for her works in Bollywood, and Kannada cinema. In 2008, she hosted the tech ...

, Indian Hindi actress, model and physician *

Kalpana Raghavendar Kalpana Raghavendar (born 8 May 1980) is an Indian playback singer, winner of Idea Star Singer Malayalam and participant in Bigg Boss Telugu Season 1, songwriter and actor. She started her career as a playback singer at the age of five and, by ...

, Indian playback singer *

Kalpana Swaminathan Kalpana Swaminathan (born 1956) is an Indian writer from Mumbai. She also writes with Ishrat Syed as Kalpish Ratna. Swaminathan and Syed are both surgeons. Swaminathan won the 2009 Vodafone Crossword Book Award (Fiction) for ''Venus Crossing: T ...

(born 1956), Indian writer and doctor *

Kalpana Reddy Kalpana may refer to: Film and television * ''Kalpana'' (1948 film), an Indian Hindi-language dance film * ''Kalpana'' (1960 film), a romantic Bollywood film * ''Kalpana'' (1970 film), an Indian Malayalam film * ''Kalpana'' (2012 film), an I ...

, Kannada Doordarshan News anchor and lead actress in "27 Mavalli Circle"

Other uses

Kalpana (imagination) ''Kalpanā'' (Sanskrit: कल्पना) is derived from the root - ''kalpanama'' (कल्पनम्) + ना, and means – 'fixing', 'settlement', 'making', 'performing', 'doing', 'forming', 'arranging', 'decorating', 'ornamenting', 'for ...

, a Vedantic view *

Kalpana (poetry) Kalpana (Bengali: কল্পনা; English: Imagination) is a famous Bengali language poetry book written by Rabindranath Tagore. It was published in 1900. It consists of 49 poems.কল্পনা – রবীন্দ্র রচনাব� ...

, collection by Rabindranath Tagore. *

Kalpana (supercomputer) Kalpana was a supercomputer at NASA Ames Research Center operated by the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division and named in honor of astronaut Kalpana Chawla, who was killed in the Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' disaster and had worked as an e ...

, at NASA's Ames Research Center *

Kalpana (company) Kalpana, Inc., was an American computer-networking equipment manufacturer located in Sunnyvale, California, which operated during the early 1990s in Silicon Valley. They were the manufacturer of the first Ethernet switch. Cisco Systems acquir ...