Amol Palekar is an Indian actor, director and producer, who has worked in Hindi and Marathi cinema. He started his acting career with the 1969 Marathi film Bajiraocha Beta. In Bollywood, he made his screen debut with Basu Chatterjee’s Rajnigandha (1974). He has acted in several movies and some important movies of his career include Chhoti Si Baat (1976), Gharonda (1977), Gol Maal (1979), Baaton Baaton Mein (1979) and Naram Garam (1981). He has shown his incredible talents as a film director with movies like Thodasa Roomani Ho Jaayen (1990) and Paheli (2005). In 1969, he married Chitra Palekar, but the two divorced in 2001. He then married Sandhya Gokhale in the same year of divorce.