| 1. Achala Sachdev was an Indian actress known for her work in Bollywood. |
| 2. She was raised in Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province, British India (now in Pakistan) in a middle-class family. |
| 3. Achala started her career as a child actress in a few films during her childhood. |
| 4. She began as a radio jockey at All India Radio, Lahore, before joining All India Radio, Delhi. |
| 5. Famous Bollywood films Achala appeared in include “Rahi” (1952), “Sampoorna Ramayana” (1961), and “Sangam” (1964). |
| 6. Her role as Balraj Sahni’s wife in “Waqt” brought her fame, especially with the hit song 'Aye Meri Zohra Jabeen'. |
| 7. Achala also acted in movies like “Mera Naam Joker” (1970) and “Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge” (1995). |
| 8. Apart from Hindi films, she appeared in "Nine Hours to Rama" (1963) and "The Householder" (1963). |
| 9. Achala met her husband, Clifford Douglas Peters, on a film set and got married in Pune. |
| 10. Following her husband’s death in 2002, Achala lived alone in Pune. |
| 11. In 2011, Achala slipped in her kitchen, broke her leg, and later suffered complications leading to her passing in 2012. |
| 12. During her treatment, nobody from the film industry visited her in the hospital. |
| 13. Before her death, she donated her flat in Pune to the Janseva Foundation in exchange for care. |
| 14. Achala enjoyed meditating and spent time listening to meditation music after her husband's death. |
| 15. She worked in over 250 films during her impressive 74-year career. |
| 16. In September 2011, Achala slipped and fell in her kitchen, sustaining a fracture. She later suffered complications leading to her passing in 2012. |
| 17. She worked in over 130 Hindi films during her career. |
| 18. She worked for All India Radio, Lahore before the partition of India, and then at Delhi All India Radio. |
| 19. She acted in many Yash Raj Films, starting with Yash Chopra's first production Daag: A Poem of Love (1973) and films such as Chandni (1989) and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995). |
