Susheela Kamath (spelt as Sushila Kamat, ) was never Jaya Bhaduri's secretary, though she was instrumental in getting Jaya into the film industry. Jaya was new to the industry and Sushila was a veteran and assisted Hrishikesh Mukherjee and financed almost all the movies. Sushila had 2 Mercedes Benz then in 1960-70s and used to take around Jaya to the producers. People thought her to be Jayas secretary, which she did not mind and later even admitted to it. She was a Scholar in Physics and Maths, and a gold medalist. She was a professor in Aden, Yemen in 60s-70s. She was instrumental in Bhupender Singh taking up singing who had come to become a hero. She gave Nana Patekar his 1st break as a hero in a Marathi movie against then top heroine Ranjana Deshmukh in 1980. She was self-made, strong lady who lived her life to the fullest in her own terms.