Biography

Daughter of Rattan Bai.

Was a mother of actresses Nutan (June 4, 1936-February 21, 1991) and Tanuja Samarth (b. 1943), an artist Chatura Samarth and an advertising film producer Jaideep Samarth with her late husband Kumarsen Samarth.

She and her daughter Nutan were estranged for more than two decades but reconciled in the year 1983 before Nutan's death from cancer in February 1991. At her own death from cancer in 2000, Shobhna had seven granddaughters, one grandson, three great-granddaughters, and two great-grandsons.

Separated amicably from her husband of 14 years Kumarsen Samarth when she was pregnant with their fourth child, a son Jaideep, but they never divorced before he died years later in his mid-70s.

Daughter Nutan's son Mohnish Behl is also an actor as are Tanuja Samarth's daughters Kajol and Tanishaa Mukerji. Kajol is married to actor Ajay Devgan. Other members of the dynasty include Shomu Mukherjee who married Tanuja Samarth.