Kumarsen Samarth (died 15 February 1970) was an Indian film director. His inclination towards the Marathi language led him to direct some great

Marathi Marathi may refer to: *Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India **Marathi people (Uttar Pradesh), the Marathi people in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh *Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Mar ...

/Hindi movies such as ''Nal Damyanti'' and ''Rupaye ki Kahani'' (1948). His biggest success was the 1955

film titled ''Shirdi che Saibaba'' on the life of the 19th century holyman by the same name. He studied cinematography in Germany and came back to India. He married his distant cousin,

Shobhna Samarth Shobhana Samarth (née Saroj Shilotri; 17 November 1916 – 9 February 2000) was an Indian director, actress and producer, who began her career in the early days of talkie movies in the Hindi film industry and continued in lead roles into the 1 ...

, an aspiring actress. They married on the condition that she would be allowed to continue her acting career. They had four children, including the famous film actresses

Nutan Nutan Samarth-Bahl ( Samarth; 4 June 1936 – 21 February 1991), known mononymously as Nutan was an Indian actress who worked in Hindi films. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in the history of Indian cinema, Nutan was noted for her natu ...

and

Tanuja Tanuja Mukherjee (née Samarth), known mononymously as Tanuja, (born 23 September 1943) is an Indian actress who predominantly works in the Hindi film industry. Part of the Mukherjee-Samarth family, she is the daughter of actress Shobhna Sam ...

. He and his wife even made some films together. After fourteen years of marriage, Kumarsen and Shobhana separated amicably but never divorced. After their separation, Shobhana lived with film actor Motilal. Kumarsen died in his mid-70s. He belonged to a Marathi CKP family.

Filmography

*''Nal Damyanti'' (1945) *''Rupaye ki Kahani'' (1948) *''Shirdi che Saibaba'' (1955)

References

Marathi film directors 20th-century births Hindi-language film directors 20th-century Indian people 1970 deaths {{India-film-bio-stub