Kalpana (born Archana Mohan on 18 July 1946 – 4 January 2012) was an Indian actress who worked in Hindi cinema in the 1960s.
She featured alongside notable actors such as Shammi Kapoor in the film Professor (1962), Shashi Kapoor and Kishore Kumar in Pyar Kiye Jaa (1966), Dev Anand in Teen Devian, Pradeep Kumar in Saheli and Feroz Khan in Tasveer and Teesra Kaun.
The daughter of revolutionary Avani Mohan, Kalpana was also an accomplished Kathak dancer trained under the guidance of Pandit Shambhu Maharaj.
Her father was working in Khadi and village Industries Commission in the state office situated on Nicklson road in Ambala Cant during 1962–63.
She moved to Kalyani Nagar in the eastern region of Pune in the early 1990s and spent her remaining life there following medical advice to live in a cleaner climate for her health.
[3] In 2011, Kalpana filed a complaint at the Khadak police station in Pune claiming that three individuals had allegedly made a fake memorandum of understanding by forging her signature.
She alleged that they used this forged document to sell her 56.18-hectare (138.8-acre) plot of land in Mauje Visagar village to Sahara City builders in 2007.