Trivia

She was the star in India's first Sindhi film Abana (1960) and a then unknown teenager Sadhana played her younger sister. When Sadhana asked for her autograph, Sheila said that the day will come when she'd ask for Sadhana's autograph. The prediction came true as Sadhana became one of the great stars of Hindi cinema in the 1960s.

Moved to the United States and married there.

She was mostly seen as an upper-class mod girl in the roles she portrayed in many movies.

She lived her last years in Mhow, a small cantonment town in the Indore district of Madhya Pradesh.

Ramani was crowned Miss Shimla in the early 1950s.

She played the lead in a Pakistani film.

In the later part of her career, she was reduced to obscure films.

She remained embossed in memory for her role in Taxi Driver (1954) directed by Chetan Anand. With her languid sway in a dark sari and shiny blouse in the song Dil jale to jale and her easy abandon in an off-shoulder dress to the dance track Dil se milake dil - she oozed spunk and sexuality, cool and control. "Ramani was a precursor to the urban modern heroine we see today.

Ramani was an Indian actress who was introduced into Bollywood by the film-maker Chetan Anand.

She was born in Sindh and was one of the few actresses from Sindh to join the Indian film industry.