
Other films in the period, such as Pirantha Naal with and Kandhavel with were not completed and indefinitely shelved. She appeared alongside veteran actor in before starring in alongside newcomer Ishaq Husseini.Īfter the failure of those films she played the role of s sister in. She revealed that by the time she decided to come back she had lost her contacts in the industry and was thereafter seen in only a couple of insignificant projects.

Sethu won the and secured wins in the Best Film category at and the, while Abitha won critical acclaim for her role of a timid Brahmin girl.Īfter Sethus success, Abitha was flooded with offers but chose to complete her studies and finish her PG in Sociology from. The film opened in December 1999 at a single noon show at a suburban theatre but built up through word-of-mouth publicity and ran for over one hundred days at several cinema halls across, becoming a critical and commercial success. Renamed her Abitha from her original name of Jenila for the film, after the character she was portraying. Previously unreleased photos from the death scene of the grunge rocker and Nirvana frontman.Īt that time, director Bala roped her in for a leading role in alongside, which she signed after and Rajshri had dropped out.

Despite the reluctance of her family, Babita was the first of all the ladies in the family who made her daughters opt acting as their career.After doing a couple of serials, she did a low-budget film titled as the sister of the lead lady and then B-Grade film titled Devadasi in Malayalam.However, they never got divorced and they participate in every activity in the family as a couple. His addiction and reckless behavior led to the separation of Babita and Randhir Kapoor in 1988. As the result of back to back failure in the films, Randhir Kapoor became alcoholic.Since she was not sure of Randhir Kapoor’s family if they will accept her, she gave an ultimatum to him to marry her before February 1971 or break off the relation, Interestingly, Randhir managed to marry her before the given time.Randhir Kapoor intentionally signed Babita for ‘Kal Aaj Aur Kal’ along with his father and grandfather, to convince them for their marriage.
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She worked in the movie with her future husband, father-in-law (late Raj Kapoor) and grandfather–in–law (late Prithvi Raj Kapoor).

