Sadhana, actress

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Sadhana: with Sunil Dutt in Waqt (1965).This was one of her few swimsuit appearances; she also appeared in one in Budtameez. (See Shammi Kapoor
(Sadhana) and her BFFs under a waterfall in Rajkumar (1964). Sadhana played a tribal princess in the film.
Till the 1980s, when the tribal genre was finally abandoned by Hindi-Urdu cinema, there would be an almost mandatory sequence showing tribal women bathing in a stream or under a waterfall. This was done partly because Filmistan wanted to reassure urban audiences that the tribals (only the women and never the men) bathed regularly, and partly to take the message of regular ablutions to the tribals.
Waqt (1965): (Sadhana) tells (Sunil Dutt) that he is entering the wrong, i.e. the women’s, shower cabin. She stops him from entering the blue door!
Waqt (1965): (Sadhana) slips in the water around the shower; (Sunil Dutt) steadies her.
And film journalists had the nerve to make fun of Sridevi's 'thunder thighs.'
Waqt (1965): Despite director Yash Chopra’s pretences to Western sophistication, this meant that the female (Sadhana) went to the blue shower room, while the man (Sunil Dutt) was directed to the pink shower room.
Waqt (1965): (Sadhana) begins to take her swimsuit off in the blue shower room.
Waqt (1965): While (Sadhana) is doing so, (Sunil Dutt) offscreen, switches off the lights of her cabin from some switch in his shower cabin! Mercifully, modern hotel swimming pools no longer offer this facility to the male partner in the pink room.
Waqt (1965): The sudden darkness causes (Sadhana) to freeze in panic.
This was considered the most erotic sequence ever shown in an Indian film till then because of the implied stripping off of the swimsuit’s top.
It was also applauded for the way it built up tension in the mind of the third angle of the film’s love triangle. (Raaj Kumar) was in the corridor outside the two adjacent shower rooms, eavesdropping on the lovebirds’ conversation, seething with jealousy, and unconsciously lighting matchstick after matchstick.
Sadhna in Budtameez (1966)
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Full name: Sadhana Shivdasani

Born: September 2, 1941 in Karach

Filmography

As an actress

1958 Abana (Sindhi)

1959 Bus Conductor

1960 Love in Simla

1960 Parakh

1962 Asli-Naqli

1962 Ek Musafir Ek Hasina

1962 Hum Dono

1962 Man-Mauji

1962 Prem Patra

1963 Mere Mehboob

1964 Dulha Dulhan

1964 Picnic

1964 Rajkumar

1964 Woh Kaun Thi?

1965 Arzoo

1965 Waqt

1966 Budtameez

1966 Gaban

1966 Mera Saaya

1967 Anita

1968 Stree

1969 Ek Phool Do Mali

1969 Intaquam

1969 Sachaai

1970 Ishq Par Zor Nahin

1971 Aap Aye Bahaar Ayee

1972 Dil Daulat Duniya

1973 Hum Sab Chor Hain

1974 Chhote Sarkar

1974 Geetaa Mera Naam

1975 Vandana

1977 Amaanat

1981 Mahfil

1994 Ulfat Ki Nayee Manzilen

As a director

1974 Geetaa Mera Naam

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