Vidya Sinha's father was a producer and director. |
Her mother passed away during Vidya's birth, so the responsibility was taken up by her maternal grandfather, the renowned director Mohan Sinha. |
Initially not keen on pursuing acting, she was encouraged by one of her aunts to enter and ended up winning the Miss Bombay beauty pageant at the age of 17. |
Following her contest win, Vidya Sinha ventured into modeling and featured in several magazines. |
At 18, she married her neighbor, Venkateshwaran Iyer, in 1968. |
Basu Chatterjee gave her a break with the successful movie "Rajnigandha" (1974), becoming her mentor afterward. |
Although offered the role of Roopa in "Satyam Shivam Sundaram," she turned it down due to discomfort with the costumes worn by Zeenat Aman for the same part. |
Throughout her career, Vidya Sinha worked alongside respected actors like Sanjeev Kumar, Vinod Khanna, Vinod Mehra, and Shashi Kapoor. |
As a leading actress in the industry for over 12 years, she adopted a daughter named Jahnvi Sinha during the peak of her career. |
After her husband's demise in 1996, Vidya Sinha and her daughter relocated to Australia, where she later remarried Dr. Netaji Bhimrao Salunke in 2001, but the marriage ended in divorce in 2009. |
She returned to India in 2004 and made a television comeback with Ekta Kapoor's "Kkavyanjali." |
The reason behind their divorce was Vidya Sinha's claims of mental and physical torture by her second husband, leading her to file an FIR against him. |
Vidya Sinha is known for her love of animals. |