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name: "Deepti Naval"
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born: "3 February 1952"
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# Deepti Naval

Actor. Born 3 February 1952 in Amritsar, Punjab, India.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 3 February 1952, Amritsar, Punjab, India
- **Also known as:** Miss Chamko
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5250658, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0622732/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/150220

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Lion*](https://film.one/film/lion.md) (78)

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## Biography

Deepti Naval is an Indian-American actress, director and writer, born on 3 February 1952 in Amritsar, Punjab, India. She studied fine arts at Hunter College in New York and made her film debut in *Junoon* (1978), followed by a lead role in *Ek Baar Phir* (1980). She became prominent in parallel cinema during the 1980s, appearing in films such as *Chashme Buddoor* (1981), in which she played the character Miss Chamko, *Saath Saath* (1982), *Katha* (1983) and *Mirch Masala* (1987), often alongside Farooque Shaikh.

Naval has continued to work in both independent and mainstream Hindi films, with later credits including *Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara* (2011), *B.A. Pass* (2012), *NH10* (2015), *Bang Bang!* (2014) and *Lion* (2016), in which she played Saroj Sood. She has also directed films and appeared in television productions such as *The Boy with the Topknot* (2017) and *Criminal Justice* (2019). She has received Best Actress awards at several international film festivals.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Lion* (2016), Fi1m 78, as Saroj Sood — [page](https://film.one/film/lion.md)

## Also known for

- *Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara* (2011), Rahila Qureshi
- *Bang Bang!* (2014), Rajveer's mother
- *NH10* (2015), Ammaji
- *Criminal Justice* (2019)
- *B.A. Pass* (2012), Mrs. Suhasini

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