Early Life
Smita Patil was born in Pune into a Maratha family to a Maharashtrian politician, Shivajirao Girdhar Patil and social worker mother Vidyatai Patil, from Shirpur town (Village-Bhatpure) of Khandesh province of Maharashtra State. She studied at Renuka Swaroop Memorial high school in Pune.
Her first tryst with the camera was in the 1970s as a television newscaster for Doordarshan, the Indian government owned television service.
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