Nadira

Nadira was an Indian actress who had the audacity to perform vamp or negative roles in Indian cinema. She was introduced in film ‘Aan” and but became more popular with ‘Shri 420’, 'Pakeezha', 'Dil Apna Prit Parayee', 'Hanste Zakhm', etc. She had a stunning beauty, but her performance captured vamp roles. Her cunning looks in her eyes could spell a magic in the viewers mind. She impressed with her first role of a Rajput princess in ‘Aan’ with Dilip Kumar Muhammad Yusuf Khan was born on the 11th of Decemb >> Read More... , where she portrayed a negative character. Although she portrayed cunning women characters in many films, she got never stereotyped.

She maintained a balance in her versatility merely through her eye expression and even in dialogue delivery. Although she acted in supporting role, she was also one of the highest paid actresses and lived a luxury life. In those days, she owned a Rolls-Royce car. Her one song in Shree-420 ‘Mudh Mudh Ke Na Dekh’ is still a popular number of Raj Kapoor Rajkapoor is a film maker and movie director from >> Read More... ’s films.

She was a respected actress and acted with all leading heroes such as Raj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand Dev Anand would be nostalgically remembered by fil >> Read More... , Raj Kumar Actor RajKumar came to limelight as he resembled S >> Read More... and Dharmendra. After Raj Kapoor era was over, she was given a small role in every blockbuster movie. She got her best role in a film Julie where she acted with South Indian actress Laxmi and Om Prakash Om Prakash was an Indian character actor who never >> Read More... . She portrayed the Anglo-Indian mother of Julie( played by Laxmi) and achieved an award. She played the role of a dominating mother and housewife as Margaret, in the film and her body language and diction of words fully was justified to the character. Later, she appeared in Ramesh Sippy’s ‘ Saagar Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ as Miss Joseph, which was impressive. She was even noticed in Amar Akbar Anthony, which was a blockbuster. She was not an Indian but born to a Jewish family in Baghdad on December 5, 1932. Although her family returned to Persia, she stayed in Mumbai alone with her maid until her death. She died on February 9, 2006. As she lived alone, she had a wonderful library stocked with works of Shakespeare, Hitler, Vivekanand, books on World War II World War II is a Malayalam information TV show on >> Read More... , and even some religious books. She did not like watching television at all but liked to read newspapers and listen to songs. Her last film was ' Josh Click to look into! >> Read More... ' which had Shahrukh Khan playing the lead role.

Nadira was an actress who was a standing example for the future generations, and critics called her a woman of all times- beautiful, bold, warm, gentle and spontaneous actress before the camera. What today’s actresses strive to achieve on screen, Nadira did 50 years ago!