Yogeeta Bali

Some Lesser Known Facts About Yogeeta Bali

• Does Yogeeta Bali smoke?: Not Known

• Does Yogeeta Bali drink alcohol?: Not Known

• His father Syed Irshad Hussain changed his name to Jaswant after coming into the film industry in India from Pakistan.

• Jaswant was already married and had two kids before marrying to Hardarshan Kaur (Yogeeta’s mother), when he suffered a loss in the film industry, he returned to his x-wife in Pakistan.

• She is the niece of late Hindi movie actress Geeta Bali.

• Aditya Raj Kapoor is her cousin.

• She became famous with the movie ‘Yauwan’ in 1973 and got seven movies in the same year.

• In 1974, she made a guest appearance in the film ‘Kunwara Baap.’

• Her marriage to Kishore Kumar (1976) didn’t get successful, and after divorced him in 1978, she got married to Mithun Chakraborty in 1979.

• According to Producer Shakti Samanta, she attracted to Mithun Chakraborty first time on the film set of ‘Khwab’ (1980).

• According to some sources, Kishore Kumar refused to sing for Mithun Chakraborty due to Yogeeta’s remarriage with Mithun.

• During the 1980s, her husband Mithun Chakraborty had an affair with the actress Sridevi. 

• When she refused to accept the relationship of Mithun with Sridevi, Mithun broke up that relationship.

• She worked in many south Indian films of different languages (Tamil, Malayalam, Bengali, Kannada, and, Telugu).

• In order to relaunch her son Mahaakshay, she produced the film ‘Enemy’ that flopped badly at the Box Office.

• She worked with Mithun Chakraborty in the movies like Unees-Bees (1980), Khwab (1980), Karate (1983), Be-Shaque (1981), Aakhri Badla (1989) and a Bengali film Swarnatrishna (1990).

• She has acted in more than 60 movies and the last one is ‘Aakhri Badla.’ 

• Some superhit movies of her are: ‘Parde Ke Peechey’ (1971), ‘Ek Mutthi Aasmaan’ (1973), ‘Ajanabee’ (1974), ‘Ek Baap Chhe Bete’ (1978), ‘Raaj Tilak’ (1984), ‘Mera Karam Mera Dharam’ (1987), and ‘Swarna Trishna’ (1990).