Kalpana Kartik

Kalpana Kartik (born Mona Singha) is a retired Hindi film actress.

In her graduation year, she won the Ms. Shimla contest and was noticed by Chetan Anand, a film-maker from Bombay.

Thus, Mona Singha was re-christened Kalpana Kartik and she moved to Bombay (now known as Mumbai).

It was Navketan's first super-success and also the film on whose sets Dev Anand secretly married Kalpana Kartik during a lunch break.

Kalpana Kartik worked as an associate producer for Tere Ghar Ke Samne (1963), Jewel Thief (1967), Prem Pujari (1970), Shareef Budmaash (1973), Heera Panna (1973), and Jaaneman (1976).

Mona Singha was born into a Punjabi Christian family in pre-partition India.

In 1954, Mona and Dev Anand got married secretly while on a break during the shooting of Taxi Driver.