Name Uma Anand Movies Neecha Nagar, Taxi Driver Spouse Chetan Anand | Died November 13, 2009 Role Journalist | |
Books Chetan Anand: The Poetics of Film, The Pool in the Jungle Similar People Chetan Anand, Ketan Anand, Priya Rajvansh, Vijay Anand, S D Burman | ||
Children Ketan Anand, Vivek Anand | ||
Uma Anand (1923 – November 13, 2009) was an Indian journalist, actress and a broadcaster in the mid 1900s.
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She was born in the year 1923 in Lahore, Pakistan. She was wife of the prominent Bollywood film director Chetan Anand (married to him in 1943) and mother of Ketan Anand and Vivek Anand. She worked as an actress in Neecha Nagar (1946). She also wrote Taxi Driver (1954 film) with her husband Chetan and her brother-in-law Vijay Anand), that starred her mother's cousin Kalpana Kartik and her brother-in-law Dev Anand. After an estrangement from her husband, she became a companion of Ebrahim Alkazi. She died November 13, 2009.
Life
She was an editor of Sangeet Natak which was a journal published by the Sangeet Natak Academi from 1965 to 1981. She also wrote many children books that were translated and published into various different Indian languages by National Book Trust of India. Her work on the last book was co-authored by her eldest son Ketan Anand. The book was named Chetan Anand: The Poetics of Film and it portrayed the life in theatre and cinema in Mumbai, India in early 40s and 50s.