Reema Lagoo - Career

Career

Reema Lagoo was born Nayan Bhadbhade in 1958. Her mother was an actress Mandakini Bhadbhade who was known for drama Lekure udand Jaahalee on the Marathi stage. Lagoo's acting abilities were noted when she was a student at the Huzurpaga HHCP High school in Pune. Her professional acting started soon after finishing high school. Her first acting jobs were on the Marathi stage.

In late 1970s or early 1980s, she started acting in Hindi and Marathi films. She married the Marathi actor Vivek Lagoo. After marriage, she took the name Reema Lagoo. The couple separated a few years later. They have a daughter named Mrunmayee who is also a stage and film actress.

Lagoo has mostly acted in supporting roles. She has acted with some of the biggest names in the Hindi film industry. Starting out with television serials, she rose in prominence with the film Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988) where she played Juhi Chawla's mother. She was seen in a controversial role in Aruna Raje's Rihaee (1988). She then starred in the hit film Maine Pyar Kiya (1989) as Salman Khan's mother and then action drama and crime thriller Gumrah (1993) as Sridevi's mother. She has starred in some of the biggest hits in the industry including the family drama Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! (1994), Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), and more recently Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003).

Mostly playing a middle aged mother in her film roles, earlier in her career she also played a dancer in Aakrosh (1980) and a cold, businesswoman in Yeh Dillagi (1994). In 1990s she starred opposite Supriya Pilgaonkar in the television serial Tu Tu Main Main and also starred in Shrimaan Shrimati. Her role in Marathi suspense film Bindhast was well appreciated.

She has also delivered a challenging role in Vaastav: The Reality (1999); portraying Don's (Sanjay Dutt) mother who kills her own son. One of her most notable performance can be seen in a little-known movie Rui Ka Bojh (1997) also starring Pankaj Kapur and Raghuvir Yadav.

Lagoo has appeared on the Marathi show Maanacha Muzra, which honours Marathi personalities. which is similar, in format, to the British TV show This is your life

She is known mostly in Bollywood for playing the mother of actor Salman Khan's characters in films like Maine Pyar Kiya, Hum Saath-Saath Hain: We Stand United, Judwaa and Patthar Ke Phool.