On her 29th death anniversary, ThePrint rewinds to the life and times of the pre-independence era actor who became known for playing mother to the stars. She was known as someone who marked a defining phase in Indian cinema as she entered the film industry to support her children after the passing of her husband, breaking the notion that people from respectable families don’t work in the show business. In 2000, she was named by India Today in its millennium issue as one of the ‘100 People Who Shaped India’. In a red sari, with short hair and dentures sticking out, Khote, at the age of 85, was regarded as a pioneering actor in Hindi and Marathi cinema. Even if one is sweeping the floor, do it so well that people ask who cleaned the floor,” said Durga Khote in an interview just a year short of her death in 1990. New Delhi: “I have a wish, that everybody - young and old, women and men, girls and boys - give dignity to labour.
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