https://www.cinemaazi.com/feature/bollywood-will-never-find-another-smita-patil - To say that Smita Patil was one of the brightest female stars of the late 1970s and early 1980s would be a gross understatement. She was the consummate new cinema actor who could play the complex role of an actress physically and mentally abused by her husband in Bhumika (1977) or be an unapologetic part of popular films such as Namak Halaal (1982) where she’d be a natural at prancing around in the rain singing Aaj Rapat Jaaye with the Amitabh Bachchan with equal ease.