Leela naidu dom moraes biography

Indian actress in Hindi and English films

Leela Naidu (1940 – 28 July 2009) was an Indian actress who starred in a small number of Hindi and English films, including Yeh Raste Hain Pyar Ke (1963), based on the real-life Nanavati case, and The Householder, Merchant Ivory Productions' first film.

She was Femina Miss India in 1954, and was featured in the Vogue along with Maharani Gayatri Devi in the list of "World's Ten Most Beautiful Women", a list she was continuously listed in from the 1950s to the 1960s in prominent fashion magazines worldwide.

She is remembered for her stunning classical beauty and subtle acting style.

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She later married Goan poet Dom Moraes, who was her childhood sweetheart.

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The book gives you an insight into the person that Leela Naidu was, as she saw herself, not as the world viewed her.

While Judith moved back to Islington with their son, Moraes, who was in Bombay, reconnected with a childhood friend, the actress Leela Naidu, who became his.

Early life

Leela Naidu was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. Her father, Dr. Pattipati Ramaiah Naidu, a well known nuclear physicist, hailed from Madanapalle, Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, and had worked under the supervision of Nobel Laureate Marie Curie for his doctoral thesis in Paris.

He ran one of Madame Curie's labs in Pari