Veteran Theatre and Film Actor Sulabha Deshpande Passes Away at 79

Sulabha Deshpande in a television advertisement. (Photo: YouTube screengrab)

• Veteran theatre and film actor Sulabha Deshpande, who had acted in numerous Marathi and Hindi films, died at 79 at her Mumbai residence on Saturday, after a prolonged illness, family sources said.
  
  
• Apart from acting in the plays written by acclaimed playwrights such as Vijay Tendulkar, Deshpande featured in several Marathi and Hindi films and TV serials. The noteworthy Hindi films in which she appeared included Bhumika (1977), Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan (1978) and Gaman (1978).
  
  
• In recent years, she had appeared in Gauri Shinde’s English Vinglish. In 1971 she co-founded the theatre group Awishkar with her husband Arvind Deshpande, who died in 1987.
  

(With inputs from PTI)