Sulakshana Pandit

Sulakshana Pandit is an actress and playback singer. In 1975, Sulakshana Pandit won the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award for singing "Tu hi saagar hai tu hi kinara" in Sankalp (1975).

She also received a Filmfare Nomination as Best Female Playback Award for rendering the classical "bandhi re kahe preet" in Sankoch (1976) but lost it to Hemlata.

The actress has also worked with some famous stars like Jeetendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Shammi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Rajesh Khanna, Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Raj Babbar and Rakesh Roshan.

Sulakshana Pandit had recorded a song "Mujhe pyar mein khat" for the film Hera Pheri in 1975. But the actress was rejected as a singer and got selected as the heroine for the same film which also starred Amitabh Bachchan and Vinod Khanna.

Sulakshana Pandit was mostly played glam roles in films and often got a chance to display her acting ability. Sulakshana did play an author backed role in Anil Ganguly's version of Parineeta which was named Sankoch (1976) where she got the opportunity to portray Lolita which was earlier played by Meena Kumari in 1954 and later by Vidya Balan in 2005.

In 1977 Sulakshana played the lead role in Apnapan and Pandit also the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award. Although Sulakshana Pandit never got an award for acting. Some of her popular hit films are Hera Pheri, Apnapan, Sankoch, Khandaan, Raaz, Thief of Baghdad, Chehre Pe Chehra and Waqt Ki Deewar.