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New Delhi/Nashik: Smriti Biswas, whose compelling performances in BR Chopra's 'Chandni Chowk' and Navketan's 'Humsafar' drew critical praise but who's remembered more for her glitzy roles in films like 'Dilli Ka Thug', passed away at her Nashik residence on Wednesday. She was 100.
"My mother was suffering from various ailments and passed away peacefully at 9pm," her son Rajiv Narang told TOI.
The actor, who also modelled for Lux soap and featured on the Filmfare cover, had cameos in Raj Kapoor's 'Jagte Raho' (1956) and 'Neel Akasher Neechey' (1959), an early Mrinal Sen film based on noted Hindi writer Mahadevi Verma's story 'Chini Feriwala'. Biswas was in her prime in the 1950s, putting together a string of compelling acts. The Times of...