Actress Sonia Sahni, who started her career with ‘Johar Mehmood in Goa’, achieved a different position in the film world with her work. His journey in B-Town was quite long. The actress played the role of Rishi Kapoor’s mother in the film ‘Bobby’. Apart from this, he had memorable roles in many other films also. The actress took a big decision in the midst of her successful film journey and the purpose of her life changed by getting married. She became the queen mother of the royal family. Today we will tell you many unheard things related to Sonia’s life.
name changed first
The real name of the actress was not Sonia Sahni, rather her name was Usha Sahni. There is a story behind the change of name of Sonia, who was born in a Sikh family of Srinagar on August 31, 1946. The actress’s father was from Lahore and her mother was from Peshawar. Both of them converted after marriage and became Christians. Sonia wanted to become an actress since childhood. For this reason she became a part of a drama group. While working in this, he was noticed by the famous producer-director-writer-actor IS Johar, who called him to Mumbai. It was IS Johar who changed the name of the actress from Usha to Sonia.
Sonia Sahini.
became queen mother after marriage
The film ‘Johar Mehmood in Goa’ was the actress’s first film and in this film she gave a kissing scene. With this she became famous by the name of ‘Kissing Girl’. The censor board had also expressed objection to this scene. After this, Sonia started playing characters in 1970 and after this, all the films she worked in were of big banners. During her film career, Sonia Sahni married Prince Shivendra Singh Goyal of Palitana princely state. After marrying Shivendra, she started being called Rajmata. Shivendra had no connection with B-Town, hence Sonia also had to stay away from films and due to this she was rarely seen on screen. Both of them had a love marriage. Even before this marriage, Shivendra had one marriage. Later he was divorced from his first wife.
Sonia Sahini with husband Shivendra.
Even today she is called Rajmata Sonia Devi
Sonia’s husband died in the year 1990. Her husband’s death deeply shocked Sonia. After her husband’s death, she did not get much support from her in-laws. She became mentally very weak. In such a situation, she started spending time with children in a school. Let us tell you, Sonia Sahni also has two children. One son and one daughter. The actress’s sons are owners of many restaurants. The daughter and son-in-law are flight attendants. Even today people call Sonia as Rajmata Sonia Devi. (Let us tell you, years ago in Indian history, Surat in Gujarat was named Palitana princely state, which was later changed to Surat.
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