Bharat Bhushan - Personal Life

Personal Life

Bharat Bhushan was born in 14 June 1920 Meerat, Uttar Pradesh. His father, Raibahadur Motilal, was the government pleader of Meerut. His mother died when he was two years old. His elder brother was film producer R.Chandra, who also owned the Ideal Studio at Lucknow. Both the brothers left for Aligarh to stay with their grandfather there after their mother's death. He did his studies and took a Graduate degree from Aligarh. After this he took to acting against his father's wishes. He first went to Calcutta to join cinema and later established himself in Bombay. He married from a prominent family in Lucknow, Zamindar Raibahadur Budha Prakash's daughter Sharadha. They had two daughters, Anuradha and Aparijitha. Anuradha had polio associated complications. His wife Sharadha died of labour complications after delivering their second child in the early 60s, soon after the film Barsaat ki raat. Then, in 1967, he married actress Ratna, his co-star in the movie Barsaat Ki Raat.

He and Meena Kumari had an affair, which was a reason for many threats to him and his wife, during the making of their second film Dana Pani. He was a well read person, and genuinely interested in music. He had a huge library of books, which in his bad times he sold or gifted to many libraries in Bombay.

His life is a story of rags to riches to rags. He died in poverty, (residing in rented houses for long time) in Bombay in 1992.