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

Life

She was born in 1923 in

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, Punjab, British India to a Bengali Christian family. One of her sisters,

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, is a Bharatanatyam exponent based in Pakistan. Uma was the wife of the Bollywood film director Chetan Anand (married in 1943) and mother of

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and Vivek Anand. She worked as an actress in ''

Neecha Nagar () is a 1946 Indian Hindi-language film, directed by Chetan Anand, written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and Hayatullah Ansari, and produced by Rashid Anwar and A. Halim. It was a pioneering effort in social realism in Indian cinema and paved the w ...

'' (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

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and her brother-in-law

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

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. From 1965 to 1981, Anand was an editor of ''Sangeet Natak'', a journal published by the

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. She also wrote many children books that were translated and published in different Indian languages by the

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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. She died on 13 November 2009.

Filmography

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

References

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