The actress who embodied dignity on screen was locked in a bitter, roughly two-decade estrangement from her mother, Shobhana Samarth, taking her to court in a dispute over money and property.
Nutan's relationship with her mother, the actress Shobhana Samarth, broke down into a long and public feud. The dispute — centred on money and property — led Nutan to take legal action against her own mother.
The two were estranged for roughly two decades before a late reconciliation in the 1980s. That a performer so associated with grace and forbearance lived through such an open family rupture is one of the enduring paradoxes of her story.
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