This actress found the strength and courage to put an end to her own career for the sake of her beloved husband and children. She was able to survive the burden of fame and former popularity, the loss of loved ones, the confrontation of established national traditions and condemnation; Having passed through all the obstacles, become the shadow of a famous husband and be truly happy ...
Origin
The Yogita Bali family, whose biography will be considered in this article, maternally originates from an influential Sikh family that originated in the ancient and sacred city of Amritsar for this ethnic group.
Tahat Singh, the great-grandfather of Yogita, for the first time in Indian history founded a Sikh girls' boarding school in Amritsar. His son, Kartar Singh, the grandfather of our heroine, was a famous philosopher, scholar and performer of religious Sikh music.
By the will of the parents, Khardashan Bali, the mother of Yogita, and her sister Gita led a fairly secular way of life for India and quite atypical for the Sikhs. They attended theaters, studied classical music, dancing and horseback riding. Their brother Digwijai Singh Bali became a famous filmmaker. Gita Bali, an aunt and the first celebrity in the family of Yogita Bali, was a real Indian movie star of the 50s of the last century, starring in such popular films of those years as "High Stakes", "Island of Love", "Networks", "Falcon" and Pickpocket.
The birthplace of actor Syed Irshad Hussein, the father of Yogita, who bears the Indian pseudonym Jaswant, was Pakistan. When he married Hardashan Bali, his first wife and two children remained in Pakistan. In 1947, large-scale mass unrest occurred in British India related to the division of the country into India and Pakistan, and Amritsar was in the middle of the warring parties. As a result of bloody clashes, most of the population of Amritsar was forced to leave the city in a hurry. Sayed Hussein and Hardashan Bali moved to Bombay, where Yogita was born on December 29, 1952, and two years later her younger brother Yogesh was born.
In the biography of Yogita Bali, father took a very small place. A few years after the birth of his daughter, Syed Hussein failed in his film career and returned to Pakistan to his first wife and children.
Movie career
By her nineteen years old, Yogita had become a tall beauty with an excellent figure, delicate skin, a round face and huge expressive eyes. Without really thinking, she followed in the footsteps of her famous aunt - actress Gita Bali and uncle-director Digvijay Singh Bali, deciding to connect her life with cinema.
And although her career in the biography of Yogita Bali did not occupy the very first place, over the next eighteen years she managed to star in several dozen films.
She played her debut role in the movie back in 1971. It was a painting by Parde Ke Peechey, telling an exciting story about how scammers cheat honest, but uneducated and gullible people using their ancient beliefs and traditions.
Yogita Bali was played by Tara, the daughter of a gardener caring for an ancient temple, which was raided by police officers.
Her next notable work was the role in the melodrama "The Stranger", which was released in September 1974.
It was a film about love at first sight, blind love and no recognition of any restrictions, between poor guy Rohit and the daughter of wealthy parents of Rashmi.
The entire filmography of Yogita Bali, whose biography we are studying today, has seventy paintings, the most famous of which were "The Moth", "On the Other Side of the Lake", "Cobra", "My Friend Khan", "Sun and Shadow", "Beloved Wife "," Oh, the unfaithful "," Mysterious death "," I will prove to the whole world! "," Meeting "," Coronation "," Leila "," How not to just love "," Head of the family "," The struggle for ideals " and many others.
The last work in Bali’s cinema was the role in the action-packed film “Pursuit of Treasures” of 1989, which tells about the war with the Interpol smugglers who sent all their treasures by a ship that sank by the will of fate.
Judging by the biography of Yogita Bali, the films were quite successful and were popular with the audience, however, at that time, Indian cinema also abounded with such famous actresses as Wahida Rehman, Rakhi, Sharmila Tagor, Hema Malini, Rekha and Jaya Bhaduri.
Our heroine, despite a fairly wide circle of admirers of her talent, was not destined to get out of their shadow. She gained much more fame thanks to her two husbands.
Kishore Kumar
The first husband of Yogita Bali was Kishore Kumar, a famous and revered singer, actor, composer, director, screenwriter, and also the most famous voiceover male actor in Indian cinema. On his account more than three thousand songs that he sang for the main characters of five hundred seventy-four films. Yogi Bali became the third wife for Kishor Kumar. He was twice her age and ten times more famous.
Kishore Kumar, as noted in the biography of Yogita Bali (photo below), became her first husband.
They got married in 1976 and were immediately called the most ridiculous couple of Indian cinema. In addition to the disastrous age difference, Kishor Kumar was not recognized by either the ambitious Sikh mother of his young wife or her uncle, the director. Already in August 1978, Yogita left him to actor Mithun Chakraborty, who later became a true legend of India and became famous throughout the world.
Mithun Chakraborty
In our country, this person does not need a special introduction. Having admired the audience for their role in the famous film "Disco Dancer" in 1982, the actor subsequently only gained popularity with his works in such masterpieces of Indian cinema as "Dance, Dance", "Like Three Musketeers", "Farewell", "Sentenced" and " Enemy". All of his impressive filmography exceeds three hundred film works. The mere presence of his name in the credits could already guarantee the picture success.
Despite the fact that this year the actor turns 69 years old, he is still in demand and acts in films.
By the time of meeting with Yogita, Chakraborty already had an unsuccessful early marriage with the fashion model Helena Luke. However, marriage to Yogi Bali changed his whole previous life.
A family
Mithun Chakraborty became the second and last husband of Yogita Bali. The biography states that, having met in 1978, the couple at first was not in a hurry with marriage. However, when Mithun met Yogita's mother and received her approval, they no longer had any obstacles to create a new family.
Yogi herself, having lost her father very early, first of all dreamed not of a successful career, but of a happy family. For this reason, shortly after the wedding, she left the cinema and devoted herself completely to her husband. However, their marriage still soon cracked when Chakraborty began a passionate affair with actress Shridevi, which lasted from 1985 to 1988. According to rumors, Mithun even secretly married her. It all ended with the fact that Yogita, learning about her husband’s infidelity, tried to take her own life. After that, Chakraborty settled down and returned to his family.
Yogi and Mithun have been together for forty-one years and are raising four children.
Children
Unfortunately, the first child of Bali and Chakraborty was not destined to be born. Pregnancy ended in a miscarriage.
On July 30, 1984, God gave them the son of Mahaksay Mimokh, named after such a wonderful name in honor of Michael Jackson and Muhammad Ali. Mimoh, for whom his famous father has always been an object of pride and imitation, also became an actor. In the movie, he made his debut in the movie "Jimmy", which was released in 2008.
In 1986, a middle-aged son, Ushmey Remoh, was born to a married couple of Chakraborty. He also decided to connect his life with cinema and became a director.
On September 4, 1992, the youngest son of Namasha Chakraborty was born into the family. He dreams of becoming an actor, like his parents and older brother.
Dishani Chakraborty, the only daughter in the biography of Yogita Bali, Mithun took from the orphanage and adopted after watching a program about a newborn girl found in garbage cans left by her mother. Today, Dishani has become a beauty very similar to her adoptive father. She also dreams of becoming an actress.
Bali today
In the movie, Yogita Bali never returned, fully devoting herself to her beloved husband and children.
Only in 2013, she decided to start producing and filmed the crime detective "Enemy", in which the main roles were played by Mithun and Mimoh Chakraborty. In the same year, Bali also released the drama "Lucky."
Today Yogi Bali leads an extremely simple and closed from prying eyes life. It is extremely rare to see it at public events or parties. The happiness of Yogita Bali is her home, husband Mithun, sons and daughter ...