Wife of a famous Indian filmmaker V. Shantaram, Sandhya Shantaram was an Indian actress. She was discovered by V. Shantaram and cast in his film Amar Bhoopali (1951), which was also her debut film in Bollywood. On the sets of Amar Bhoopali, they got close and thereafter married. Later, she made several appearances in her husband’s movies like Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje (1955), Do Aankhen Barah Haath (1958), and Navrang (1959).