She was the mother of all screen mothers-in-law.
What Pran was to villainy, Lalita Pawar was to its domestic version. With her twitching
left eyelid she spread terror in the hearts of daughters-in-law in most of the 700 films
she acted in following her debut at age seven. The vamp-turned-character actress left her
indelible mark in films like Shri 420, Prem Bandhan and Phool Aur Pathar. Sadly, the pivot
of many family dramas died alone in her Pune home: her body was discovered the next day.
She was the mother of all screen mothers-in-law.
What Pran was to villainy, Lalita Pawar was to its domestic version. With her twitching
left eyelid she spread terror in the hearts of daughters-in-law in most of the 700 films
she acted in following her debut at age seven. The vamp-turned-character actress left her
indelible mark in films like Shri 420, Prem Bandhan and Phool Aur Pathar. Sadly, the pivot
of many family dramas died alone in her Pune home: her body was discovered the next day.
