Minoo Mumtaz

Minoo Mumtaz is the sister of comedian Mehmood Ali Mehmood Ali is one of our greatest comedian actors >> Read More... . Among her siblings, she was the first one to come into films. Her first film was Sakhi Hateem (1955) with Daljit and Chitra. Since dance was in her blood, she had learned to dance from her daddy; her father was the first person to introduce dance into films.

Her dance number in film dance duet with Helen in Halaku is one of the famous dance numbers in Hindi cinema, and it is believed that she beat even Helen in dance completion. Later she became famous as a dancer and then got dancing roles in many films. It was Kuldeep Kaur who gave her break as a dancer in her second film Miss Coca Cola. Later she also fetched comedy roles in many movies, and she acted with all biggest comedians of her times like Johnny Walker Johnny Walker is a comedian of Bollywood. His orig >> Read More... , Om Prakash Om Prakash was an Indian character actor who never >> Read More... , Sundar and even Mehmood Ali.

She paired with Johnny Walker in film ‘Kaagaz Ke Phool’, with Mehmood in ‘Howrah Bridge'. The scenes demanded her to feature even in song and dance sequence with both Mehmood and Johnny Walker, which is still pleasant for ears to hear. From a successful dancer and a comedian, she switched to playing character roles, side heroines, and even star character. Her prominent films wherein she played supporting role and stars include ‘Black Cat’, ‘Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan’, Ghar Ghar Ki Baat’, and ‘Ghar Basa Ke Dekho’. She got married to Sayyed Ali Akbar in 1963.

Her last film was Palki Palki is a Pakistani drama serial that premiered i >> Read More... . She now lives in Canada. Her biography would remain incomplete without mention of her songs and dances that were featured in various Hindi classic movies. Her mother Mumtaz Ali Mumtaz Ali was an Indian dancer. Ali also had a da >> Read More... was a renowned dancer in a troupe’ Mumtaz Ali Nite’ and had appeared as a character artiste and a dancer in many films during 1940’s. Minoo Mumtaz was born on April 26, 1942, in Mumbai.

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She was born in Mumbai on April 26, 1942, and celebrated her 73rd birthday this year. She is a former dancer and an actress and daughter of Mumtaz Ali. She embarked her career as a dancer in industry. “My father was my inspiration I always wanted to be like him, but my mother didn’t like it,” she says. After becoming a successful dancer, she was demanded to come in the limelight as a character actress. “I worked with my brother Mehmood Ali and many others as a character actress in many comedy roles,” she describes, “but I also wanted to be an actress in Bollywood movies, not just a character actress,” she said. Her dreams came alive as she started in her first film called ‘Sakhi Hateem’; she also played the lead role in black cat but the first film she did as a lead actress is ‘Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke.'

She appeared in many other films like ‘Kaagaz Ke Phool’, ‘C.I.D’ which was released in 1956, ‘Chaudhvin Ka Chand’, ‘Shaheb, Bibi Aur Gulam’ and also played key roles in ‘Taj Mahal’ and ‘Ghoonghat’. Sometimes during her film career, she met her spouse Sayed Ali Akbar, “and then love happened, so marriage has to come along with it,” she talks in an autobiography video on YouTube. Her last film was ‘Palki’ which is when her first two were born. She fought a life-threatening brain tumor which was causing blackouts and memory losses. “My children thought I was never coming back but then suddenly everything fall back into place. I can remember everything after a critical surgery I had come back, and I thank God for giving me wonderful years to live with my children,” she says. Now she is living in Canada, with all her children married and settled in Canada with her grandchildren.