Sadhana Singh is an Indian actress who appears in

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films and television. Her first magazine shot was done by Pardeep Mishra. She started her film career with the 1982 film '' Nadiya Ke Paar'', by writer-director Govind Moonis. Sadhana attained popularity after the release of the film '' Nadiya Ke Paar'' and started being called Gunja, the character she played in the film. Gunja was an innocent looking village girl who fell in love with Chandan, brother-in-law of her elder sister, in the film. She has acted in more than twenty

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and Indian regional language films. ''

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,'' ''

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,'' and ''

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'' are some of her recent films. Apart from films, she also acted in many popular TV serials.

Early life

Sadhana was born into a

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family in

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. Her family hails from the Indian state of

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Personal life

She is married to film producer Rajkumar Shahabadi. Rajkumar is the son of Vishwanath Prasad Shahabadi - a film producer from Shahabad, Bihar who was involved in producing

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's first film, ''

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''. The couple has a daughter and a son. Her daughter

Sheena Shahabadi Sheena Shahabadi (born 10 April 1986) is an Indian actress. Her first film role was starring in the film '' Teree Sang'' (2009). She is the daughter of Rajkumar Shahbadi and actress Sadhana Singh. She became interested in acting because of he ...

is also an actress. She also has a sister named, Surinder Kaur Singh who is also a television actress who is famous for her roles of Amrit Balwant Walia in '' Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin'' and Uma Rajendra Pratapsingh in ''

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''.

Filmography

TV series

References

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