Asha Sachdev

Asha Sachdev is an actress, known for Priyatama (1978), Kanoon Kya Karega (1984) and Aaja Nachle (2007).

Movies

Aaja Nachle

An unexpected phone call shakes Dia (Madhuri Dixit) out of her dance rehearsal in New York. Her teacher, her guru, is dying and she must return to India. The town where she grew up, the town where she learnt to live and to dance. Also the town she left on…

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Fiza

Six years after Fiza’s (Karisma Kapoor) brother, Aman (played by Hrithik Roshan) disappears during the 1993 Mumbai riots, she goes to look for him. When she does find him, to her horror she sees that he has joined a terrorist group. She forces him to come home, and he finally…

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Mehbooba

A singer by profession, Suraj (Rajesh Khanna) gets stranded in resthouse in the coutnryside during a rainstorm. While there he experiences ununsual feelings, as if he has been there before. He feels himself transported to another time and era, to another birth, and drawn to a woman named Ratna (Hema…

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Pankh

PANKH Director’s take: Cinema within cinema has always fascinated filmmakers all across the globe. The film industry of each country has characteristics peculiar to their culture. That is what distinguishes them, makes them intriguing and anecdotes associated with each industry in a specific cultural context naturally lend themselves to interesting…

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Jhoom Barabar Jhoom

London, an overcrowded cafe, one table to share. Two strangers tell each other “how I met my fiancé” stories to kill time. Rikki (Abhishek Bachchan) met his fiance Anaida (Lara Dutta) at the Ritz in Paris and Alvira (Preity Zinta) met her prince charming Steve (Bobby Deol) at Madame Tussauds…

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Fun Facts

Step sister of Arshad Warsi and sister of singer Anwar.

Daughter of actress Ranjana Sachdev.

Was engaged to Kishen Lal. Her fiance passed away.

Mother Ranjana Sachdev (Raziyah) was married to Ahmed Ali Khan ( used the name Aashiq Hussain for his music/ poetry career). From this marriage they had singer Anwar Hussain and 2 daughters named Reshma and Asha. Ahmed and Ranjana got divorced in the early 1960's. The daughters went to go live with Ranjana. Ranjana married her lawyer Sachdev. This when Ranjana officially became "Ranjana Sachdev"".Years later when Asha decided to become a actress

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