She Played the Hero’s Mother—But Her Own Story Was Far More Dramatic

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Good several years prior to Bollywood welcoming modernday heroines, Leela Chitnis entered the scene as India's first graduate heroine—trailblazing in studies and on screen. Born in 1909 in Dharwad, Karnataka, to a father who was an English professor, she was a BA graduate who joined the...