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Occupation
  
Actress

Died
  
March 27, 2000, Mumbai

Years active
  
1964–86

Partner
  
Chetan Anand

Name
  
Priya Rajvansh

Role
  
Film actress



Full Name
  
Vera Sunder Singh

Born
  
1937

Siblings
  
Kamal Jeet, Padamjit Singh

Movies
  
Similar People
  
Chetan Anand, Raaj Kumar, Ketan Anand, Madan Mohan, Kamal Jeet

Children
  
Ketan Anand, Vivek Anand

Priya rajvansh


Priya Rajvansh (1937 – 27 March 2000), born Vera Sunder Singh, was an Indian film actress, who is known for her performance in Hindi films like, Heer Raanjha (1970) and Hanste Zakhm (1973), amongst a handful of films she did during her career.

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Early life and education

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Priya Rajvansh was born as Veera Sunder Singh in Shimla. Her father Sunder Singh was a Conservator in the Forest Department. She grew up in Shimla along with her brothers, Kamaljit Singh (Gulu) and Padamjit Singh. She studied at Auckland House, where she was school captain, and Convent of Jesus and Mary, Shimla. She passed intermediate from St. Bede's College, Shimla in 1953, and joined Bhargava Municipal College (BMC), during this period, she acted in several English plays at Shimla's noted Gaiety Theatre.

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Her father was on a UN assignment, so after graduation she joined the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, UK.

Career

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While still in London and 22 years old, one of her photographs, clicked by a London photographer, somehow reached the Hindi film industry and Chetan Anand, (brother of Dev Anand and Vijay Anand) in 1962, who cast her in his next film, Haqeeqat (1964), which remains one of the most noted war-films in India. Soon she was in a relationship with her mentor, Chetan Anand, who had just separated from his wife; Priya was many years younger and very beautiful and the two grew close to each other. Thereafter she starred only in Chetan Anand's films, where she was involved in every aspect of film-making from story to scripting, lyrics, and post-production. Chetan, too, never made a film without her as the central character. Despite being a highly talented actress, her anglicised accent and western femininity did not click with the Indian audience.

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Her next film, Heer Raanjha came out only in 1970, where she acted opposite the rage of that time, actor Raaj Kumar, and the film was a hit. Then came Hanste Zakhm, arguably the finest film of her career, in 1973. Her other noted films were Hindustan Ki Kasam (1973), and Kudrat (1981), where she had a parallel role with Hema Malini in the lead. Her last film Haathon Ki Lakeeren came out in 1985. After that her film career ended and she died in 2000.

Personal life

Priya Rajvansh and Chetan Anand had a personal relationship and they lived together, though she kept her own flat first in Kalumal Estate and, later, a bigger house in Mangal Kiran. Her two brothers, Kamaljit Singh (Gulu) and Padamjit Singh, reside in London and the USA respectively, and have an ancestral home in Chandigarh.

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After Chetan Anand's death in 1997, she inherited a part of his property along with his sons from his first marriage. She was murdered on 27 March 2000 in Chetan Anand's Ruia Park bungalow in Juhu, Mumbai, India. Police charged Chetan Anand's sons Ketan Anand and Vivek Anand along with their employees Mala Choudhary and Ashok Chinnaswamy with her murder. Their motive was thought to be rights to her inheritance of Chetan Anand's property. Rajvansh's handwritten notes and a letter addressed by her to Vijay Anand were produced in court as evidence by the prosecution. The letter and notes throw light on Rajvansh's fear and anxiety during the period prior to her death under mysterious circumstances.

The four accused were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in July 2002. In 2011, the Mumbai high court accepted the appeals filed by the accused duo against the trial court's order.

Filmography

Actress
1986
Haathon Ki Lakeeren as
Mala R. Singh Yadav
1981
Kudrat as
Karuna Singh (as Priya Raajvansh)
1977
Sahib Bahadur as
Meena
1973
Hanste Zakhm as
Chanda / Meena "Minno"
1973
Hindustan Ki Kasam as
Mohini, Tahira
1970
Heer Raanjha as
Heer
1964
Haqeeqat as
Angmo (as Priya)
Writer
1986
Haathon Ki Lakeeren

References

Priya Rajvansh Wikipedia


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