Nalini Jaywant

Nalini Jaywant (18 February 1926 – 20 December 2010) was an Indian movie actress from Bollywood in the 1940s and 1950s.

Jaywant was born in Mumbai (then Bombay) in 1926. She was first cousin of actress Shobhna Samarth, the mother of actresses Nutan and Tanuja.[1] Since 1983, she had been living mostly a reclusive life.[2] She was married to director Virendra Desai in the 1940s. Later, she married her second husband, actor Prabhu Dayal, with whom she acted in several movies.[3] Nalini Jaywant died on 20 December 2010, aged 84, at her bungalow of 60 years at Union Park, Chembur, Mumbai.