Bollywood actress Reema Lagoo, the ever-smiling screen mother to some of India’s top actors, died Thursday.
Her big break came in 1988 when she played the mother of the leading actress in the romantic hit Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (Until the End of Time).
She played the mother who was also her children’s friend. She played mother to almost every major star and acted in some of Bollywood’s biggest blockbusters.
Lagoo began to play mothers in Bollywood at a time when the stereotype of Indian mothers changed from the eternally tragic figure who suffered for her children.