The actress who changed the face of Bollywood and expanded the horizon for Indian women, the Superstar of the 1970s and the 1980s was born in Junagadh, Gujarat. Born to an affluent Muslim family, Parveen Babi was an MA in English Literature. She began her modeling career in 1972 and quickly moved to the film industry in 1932 with the film Charitra. Though the movie was a flop, Babi’s presence was felt and her work was appreciated. Due to her chiseled looks, shapely body and fashion sense, she was always a glamorous heroine rather than a mainstream actress. Babi, for her times, was highly westernized, be it her dressing sense that made her a fashion icon or her liberalized thoughts on religion.
While all the actresses of her...
Aruna Irani is an Indian actress who has acted in over 300 films, mostly doing supporting roles. She was born to a Parsi family on 18th August 1946 in Mumbai. Aruna has mixed origin of Irani Zoroastrian and Hindu background. She was the sister of famous filmmaker, Indra Kumar and actor, Adi Irani. She is married to film director, Kuku Kohli. Aruna Irani was first introduced in the film, Gunga Jumna in 1961. She was just 9 years old at the time when she played the role of Azra.
After that, she did small roles in several films such as Jahanara in 1964, Farz in 1967 and Upkar in the same year and Aaya Sawan Jhoomke in 1969. In 1968, she acted in Aulad along with the comedian, Mehmood Ali. Later, she also acted...
Vijaya Mehta is an acclaimed Indian television film and theatre actor. She is known for her works in parallel cinemas as a director, and an actor.
Baroda being her birthplace, Vijaya Mehta, originally went by the name of Vijaya Jaywant. She completed her education from the University of Mumbai, and pursued drama, and the theatre at New Delhi alongside theatre-director Ebrahim Alkazhi and Adi Marzban. Mehta co-founded the theatre group “Rangayan” with writer Vijay Tendulkar, and theatre greats Shreeram Lagoo and Arvind Deshpande. The works of Rangayan established her as a dignitary in Marathi theatres in the decade of 1960s. Mehta introduced the German playwright Bertolt Brecht into Marathi theatres with the rendition ...
Supriya Pathak is an Indian actress who has been reigning the screens of Hindi Cinema with her roles as supporting actress for a long time. She was born in January, 1961 in Mumbai. Supriya Pathak’s mom is the famous actress Dina Pathak . Her father, Baldev Pathak, had a tailoring shop named ‘Shriman’ near Gateway of India. The shop was very famous as it made clothes for the legendary actors Dilip Kumar and Rajesh Khanna. Supriya’s sister, Ratna Pathak Shah, is the wife of veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah. She did not have a good childhood. Her mom worked day and night, leaving her to stay at her uncle’s place. She did PhD in Competitive Dance. Supriya got married to actor and director Pankaj Kapur. Supriya is ...
Vandana Pathak, who plays the character of Bakula Vasavada in SAB TV's R K Laxman Ki Duniya, is a very talented Hindi and Gujarati actress. She is the daughter of actor Arvind Vaidya. She grew up in Ahemdabad and has acted in number of Gujarati plays. She is married to actor, director Neeraj Pathak and has two children, Yash and Radhika.Her TV career started in 1995, when she played Meenakshi Mathur in Zee TV's popular comedy show Hum Paanch. In 1999, she was seen in the serial Ek Mahal Ho Sa...
Lalita Pawar was a versatile actress in Indian Film history with more than 700 films in nearly 70 years in both Hindi and Marathi language. She was born on 18 April 1916 in Yevle, Nasik, Bombay Presidency, British India. Her Birth Name was Amba Laxman Rao Sagun which later became Lalita Pawar. She was the daughter of a well established silk marchent Laxman Rao Shagun.
She first married to Ganpatrao Pawar but their marriage had not last long as she came to know about the affair of her husband with her younger sister. After getting the divorce from her first husband, Lalita married to Rajprakash Gupta a film producer of Ambika studios, Bombay. Till her death, she was surrounded by her husband, son and her daug...
Zubeida Begum was known for being an Indian actress, but rather tragic at that. Her father was Kasembhai Mehta, who was a business person and her mother was Faiza Bai, who was a singer by profession. She was a very beautiful girl, with fairly sharp features. When she confessed her aspiration to become an actress, her father became infuriated and arranged her marriage with a man. She has a son from this marriage named Khalid Mohamed. It was, however, a very unhappy marriage that broke after the partition of India.
She then developed a passionate love for Jodhpur’s Maharaja Hanwant Singh. Maharaja’s family strongly opposed the communion of this couple in love mos...