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Bindiya was discovered at a party, when she was just fourteen years old, by superstar Hema Malini’s mother. She felt that Bindiya had a resemblance to Hema and recommended her to film producers. Her first Hindi film was “Jeevan Jyoti” where she co-starred with Vijay Arora whose career was on the decline, and the film flopped. Bindiya forged on ahead and soon became a success starring for director Basu Chatterjee in Khatta Meetha (1977) and Prem Vivah (1979). However, her biggest hit was for director Hrishikesh Mukherjee in the comedy Gol Maal (1979). That film’s success led her to take Hema Malini’s place in the big-budget film Shaan (1980), because Hema was busy with her other film commitments.

Bindiya has taken up designing costumes for female stars such as Rani Mukherjee and Kareena Kapoor for her husband J.P. Dutta’s films, such as Border (1997), Refugee (2000) and LOC Kargil (2003).

Bindiya was born in Mumbai. She had supposedly claimed that Vijay Arora, her leading man from her first film, harassed her. Her personal life became scandalous when she married her frequent leading man Vinod Mehra. He was already a married man who walked out on a supposedly unconsummated marriage to Meena Broca to be with Bindiya. Both of their families looked down on the marriage, which soon fizzled. Thereafter, Bindiya would give up her acting career to marry director J.P. Dutta, with whom she has two daughters, Nidhi and Siddhi.
Trivia

Bindiya knew actress Parveen Babi since she was a little girl, as her elder sister Pearl and Babi went to the same school. After both became actresses, they acted together in Shaan (1980), and Bindiya said that they haBasu was born on 7 January 1979 in New Delhi to a Bengali Hindu family. She is the middle child of three daughters: she has an elder sister named Bidisha and a younger named Vijayeta. Basu’s family later moved to Kolkata shortly before she entered middle school.

In an interview, she has stated that she had initially planned to study medicine, but entered modelling and acting by accident. Basu studied science till the 12th standard at Bhavan’s Gangabux Kanoria Vidyamandir and then studied commerce at The Bhawanipur Gujarati Education Society College, an undergraduate college affiliated with the University of Calcutta. In Kolkata, she did modelling and ramp shows part-time. When she was 17, she met model Mehr Jessia in Kolkata; the latter suggested that Basu take part in the Godrej Cinthol Supermodel contest. Basu participated, and eventually won the contest.
Career

After winning the Ford Godrej Cinthol contest, Basu was flown to New York by the Ford Company, where she had a successful modelling career at the age of 17.