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The Hindu
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Anuj Kumar, Shoumojit Banerjee

Veteran actress Sulochana, who typified the Bollywood ‘mother’, passes away at 94

Veteran Hindi and Marathi film actress Sulochana Latkar, who gained recognition as the archetypal Bollywood mother in the 1960s and the 70s, passed away aged 94 after a prolonged illness at a Mumbai hospital on Sunday.

The actor was admitted to a private hospital in Dadar on May 8. Family sources said the actress passed away around 6.30 p.m. at the hospital.

Hailing from Kolhapur, Sulochana made a name for herself as a leading heroine in Marathi films before moving to Bombay cinema where she essayed various shades of motherly roles in Hindi cinema for almost four decades. From Dev Anand to Sunil Dutt to Amitabh Bachchan and Rajesh Khanna to Jackie Shroff, she played mother to several generations of stars, always epitomising values of Indian motherhood.

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