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Farrukh Jaffer

Other names of Farrukh Jaffer: FarrukhJaffar, FarrokhJaffer
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Farrukh Jaffer is a Bollywood film and television actress, working in the entertainment industry for over five decades. Her career started in 1963 as the first female announcer of Vividh Bharati station, Lucknow. Born in Jaunpur in a family of feudal lords, she graduated from Lucknow University after marrying Syed Muhammad Jaffer, a freedom fighter & a correspondent for The Washington Post and Chicago Daily News. She bore two daughters–Shahein and MehruJaffer (an author). After 1966, she moved on to AIR Urdu in Delhi and wrote plays and enacted them in a segment called Geeton Bhari Kahani till 1970.

Despite having no formal training, she was an A1 category announcer. While in Delhi, she attended workshops held by NSD’s most eminent directors, Ebrahim Alkazi, and discovered her passion for drama. She made her Bollywood debut when she landed the role of Umrao Jaan Click to look into! >> Read More... ’s mother in the 1981 musical drama, Umrao Jaan. At a private gathering, her impromptu act in Bhojpuri and Jaunpuri dialect impressed director Muzaffar Ali Muzaffar Ali is an Indian Film Director in the Hin >> Read More... , so he offered her the chance to work with Rekha (UmraoJaan), FarooqShaikh, and Naseeruddin Shah Naseeruddin Shah is an experimental actor and asso >> Read More... . Even today, Rekha remains attached to her and considers Farrukh as her mother.

Returning after nearly two decades, her role as Panch Fatima Bi in Ashutosh Gowariker’s critically acclaimed Swades (2004), starring Shah Rukh Khan Shah Rukh Khan or also known as SRK is a prominent >> Read More... , gained her widespread recognition. In 2010, she landed the role of Mrs. Manikpuri/ Amma in KiranRao’sPeepli (Live), and it remains her most memorable role to date. To this day, she remained eponymous to the name Amma and got nominated as the Best Supporting Actress for the Apsara Award. In 2015, she played a grandmother in three movies, Barefoot to Goa, Jaanisaar, and Parched. Then, she landed another role with the second big Khan, Salman Khan Salman Khan is a very famous Indian actor and a pr >> Read More... , in the sports drama Sultan (2016), which broke records worldwide.

She played his grandmother in that film too. In 2017, she got cast as BadiApain the Amir Khan Amir Iqbal Khan is a former professional boxer fro >> Read More... starrer, Secret Superstar Click to look into! >> Read More... . She performed as Bestemor in What Will People Say (2017), The House Next Door (2017), Dadi in Photograph (2019), Ammaa in AmmaakiBoli (2019), and Mehrunisa in her upcoming film of the same name. She has also appeared on television series like The Shawl, Husn-e-Jana, NeemKaPed, and AdhaGaon.

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