(She did have a colour sequence in the black-and-white blockbuster film Mughal-e-Azam).
His great grandfather Jwala Prasada was a Colonial Civil Service officer and great grandmother Purnima Devi,youngest daughter of Hemendranath Tagore brother of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore.
Jwala's father, Kranti Gutta, hailed from a family of freedom fighters and Leftists.