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Famous actress Urmila Bhatt used to live with the family in Juhu’s bungalow with the family. Husband, son-daughter-in-law and grandson. A happy family. He also had a daughter Rachna, who was married in Mumbai. In February, the son planned to hang out with his children. Now Urmila and her husband were alone at home.
It was on 21 February 1997, when Urmila’s husband had to leave Baroda (now Vadodara) with an essential work. The bungalow was empty and Urmila was alone in the house.
On February 22, when reached home in the morning, no one opened the door even after knocking on the door for a long time. Kamwali waited a little, then she left for other houses. Now it’s afternoon, the door was still closed. No one came out, there was no movement.
Evening had come. When the daughter Rachna came to know that the mother was alone in the house, she sent her husband Vikram Parekh to get it well. It was around 7:30 in the evening. Vikram reached the bungalow at Juhu and started knocking on the door. It was too late, but no one still opened the door.
Vikram also made a lot of voices, but no response was received. Hearing the noise, the neighbors reached. He told Vikram that in the morning, the worker also returned to the door, but no one came. Vikram was disturbed. He immediately called Urmila’s daughter Rachna and told the whole thing.
Rachna immediately reached home. When both of them broke the door after much effort, the house was random. When the eyes turned, a terrible scene was in front. The corpse tied to the ropes of Urmila Bhatt was lying on the floor, there was blood everywhere. When he went closer, the cloth was put in his mouth, his throat was cut, the breath had stopped and the blood was frozen.
Today, read the story of the life and murder of famous actress Urmila Bhatt, who has worked with every big artist like Dilip Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan in 3 chapters of unheard of unheard Dastan-
Urmila Bhatt was born on 1 November 1933 in Dehradun, Ghulam. He was deeply interested in acting since childhood. This was the reason that he started acting by joining the drama theater. After some time she joined Rajkot’s Sangeet Kala Academy as a dancer and singer.
He acted in Gujarati drama Jesle Toral. The show was a tremendous hit, after which the drama was performed more than a thousand times across Gujarat. With the success of this drama, Urmila Bhatt emerged as the best actresses all over Gujarat.
Urmila Bhatt with Asha Sachdev in the film Do number number (1977).
Thanks to this play, the Gujarati filmmakers got an eye on his skills, after which he turned to Gujarati cinema. Urmila acted in about 75 Gujarati and 20 Rajasthani films in her career. She was a popular character artist.
While working in Gujarati cinema, he met famous Gujarati Theater Artist and Gujarati films director Markand Bhatt. While working together, the two started liking each other and then got married. The wedding made the couple 1 son and a daughter Rachna.
In an interview to Tabassum Talkies, Urmila Bhatt had told that one day she had gone to college for some work. Where he was noticed by famous director BR Chopra. He came to him and said- you will play a small role in my film. When Urmila was already associated with theater and Gujarati film industry, she also agreed quickly. In this way he got the first Hindi film Hamraj, which was released in 1967.
The film featured Rajkumar, Sunil Dutt, Mumtaz in important roles. Due to the small role of a few seconds of the first film, Urmila started getting offers from many Hindi films.
Her second Hindi film was 1968 struggle, in which she got the role of Dilip Kumar’s sister. Dilip Kumar was a star at that time. As soon as Urmila came to know that she had to shoot the scene with Dilip Saheb, she became nervous. In such a situation, Dilip Kumar came to him and said, don’t panic. After this he started practicing with him.
Urmila Bhatt with Raj Kapoor and Ashok Kumar in a film scene.
Further, she also appeared in Sunil Dutt, Sanjeev Kumar, Nutan starrer film Gauri (1968). Urmila became very popular in the character role. By the end of the 60s, Urmila emerged as a favorite mother of Hindi cinema.
In the film Do Unknowing, in the third floor, she played the role of Amitabh Bachchan’s mother, Ranjita Kaur’s mother in the film Ankhi’s Jharoke played the role of Jeetendra’s mother in the film changing relationship. Apart from these, she was also part of many best films like Ram Teri Ganga Maili, Hero, Ghar To Aisa, Ijat Ki Roti, Bahurani, Abhimanyu.
Urmila did 140 Hindi films in her 40 -year acting career.
Apart from films, he also worked in many TV shows. She was seen in the role of Sita’s mother Sunaina in Ramanand Sagar’s historic mythological show Ramayana.
How Sita’s mother’s role was found in Ramayana
In 1986, Ramanand Sagar was making TV show Ramayana. One day Ramanand’s half -brother Vidhu Vinod Chopra reached the set of Ramayana to meet him. He was accompanied by BR Chopra and Urmila Bhatt.
As soon as Ramanand Sagar’s eyes fell on Urmila, he kept looking at him for two minutes and then quickly said- Queen Sunaina was found. The people around could not understand anything. Ramanand Sagar then said to Urmila, will you play the role of King Janak’s wife and mother Sita’s mother Sunaina in my show.
Urmila also immediately agreed without losing time. Let us tell you that in this show, Arun Govil played Ram and Deepika Chikhalia played the role of Mata Sita. It is the world’s most running TV show, which has 77 million viewerships. It was the most expensive TV show in the 80s, on which about 9 lakh rupees were spent on an episode.
Apart from Ramayana, Urmila also made a good identity by working in Rajshree Production TV serial Paying Guest, Shyam Benegal’s show Bharat Ek Khoj and GTV show G Horror Show. He also gave voice to Mowgli’s mother Chameli in TV’s popular animated show The Jungle Book.
Urmila was active in films till 1995. Then with the changing era, he almost stopped getting work in films. After which she was lost in family life. His daughter was married to Vikram Parekh in Mumbai. Later, sons also had weddings. After retiring from films, Urmila started spending most of her time with grandchildren and grandchildren.
In an interview to Tabassum Talkies, Urmila Bhatt said that she considers herself very lucky, because God has given her the privilege of becoming a grandmother and grandmother.
A few days before 22 February 1997, their children had gone out of the city with their families for holidays. Husband Markand retired from the post of chairman of the Sangeet Natak Academy shortly before. At that time Urmila was 63 years old and her husband 67. The two often spent most of the time at home, but that day Markand also had to go to Baroda for an important work. Urmila was alone in the house, after which her body was found the next day.
The whole family reached home after hearing the news of Urmila’s murder. When the police started the investigation, it was revealed that every valuable item of the house is missing. According to Urmila’s postmortem report, she was badly assaulted. He had marks of being tied with a rope in his hands and feet. His throat was cut with a sharp weapon.
According to the report, he had struggled to escape for several minutes. Due to which he had died on the night of 22 February. However, his body was found several hours later in the afternoon of 23 February the next day. Investigation also revealed that the back door of the bungalow was open.
The Mumbai Police formed a special investigation team led by Inspector Satyapal Singh to investigate the murder. A case was registered against the unknown on sections related to looting and murder. Long investigation was done, but even after months the police remained empty. Today 28 years have passed since Urmila’s murder, but the murder of her murder could never be solved.
In Tabassum Talkies, actress Tabassum had told that some robbers had entered Urmila’s house with the intention of looting. He first tied his hands and feet and then looted the valuables of the house. He was about to leave Urmila alive, but for fear of being caught later, he strangled Urmila.
Urmila Bhatt’s best movies
Hamraj (1967)
Gauri (1968)
Two unknown (1976)
Blood sweating (1977)
Floor (1979)
Urmila Bhatt has been awarded the BFJA Award for her best performance. Urmila Bhatt’s husband Markand Bhatt died in 2012.