Image caption: Waheeda Rehman and Asha Parekh photographed at Sadhana's Mumbai residence on December 25.
Veteran Bollywood actresss Sadhana Shivdasani, who passed away on Friday morning, after a long battle with cancer, was cremated on Saturday afternoon at the Oshiwara Electric Crematorium in Mumbai, in the presence of her family and a handful of close acquaintances from the Hindi film fraternity.
Sadhana died at 74 and is survived by her foster daughter. (Also Read:
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The legendary actress underwent a surgery for oral lesion last year.
A top-ranked Bollywood star in the 1960s and 1970s, Sadhana was born in Karachi, now in Pakistan. However, after partition, when she was barely seven, her family migrated to India and settled in Mumbai.
She entered films as a child artist in 1955 with a minor appearance in Raj Kapoor's film,
Shree 420.
Bollywood celebrities including Waheeda Rehman, Asha Parekh, Raza Murad, Saroj Khan, Helen and Salim Khan were present to bid adieu to the legendary actress Sadhana.