Archive for the ‘Actors & Actresses’ Category
Bibbo
Amongst the most graceful character actresses of the Indo-Pak film industry, Bibbo must rank as one of the topmost ones. At her peak, she was a stunning heroine, and the only film actress of the region whose dresses and shoes were studded with diamonds and expensive stones and she flaunted her wealth sometimes in an ...
Himaliyawala
It has been said before that most of the early film artists were already fully out of the burner in India, and they literally put what they learnt in Bombay to better use in the Pakistani silver screen to illuminate it with a special spark. In this context, one such artiste who made it in ...
M . Ismail
M. Ismail, was a resident of the Inner Bhati Gate in Lahore. Well built and fair complexioned, Ismail had blue eyes, and was quite. attractive. Mian Abdul Rasheed Kardar (the famous A. R. Kardar), also belonged to the same area in Lahore. M. Ismail used to work as a golden calligrapher, while Kardar was involved ...
Shahrukh Khan
Shahrukh Khan has been the top star of Hindi cinema since the mid- 1990s, with some of the biggest blockbusters of the decade to his credit. He managed to gain a foothold in the Bombay industry without any family or social connections. During his schooling and college years in New Delhi, he was actively involved ...
Asha Mathur
Both Asha Mathur and Bina Roy were introduced by Kishore Sahu in Kali Ghata (1951). While Bina Roy was relatively more successful among the two and did some memorable movies including Anarkali (1953) and Taj Mahal (1963), Asha Mathur was relegated to obscure mythical and costume films including Alif Laila (1953), Rajyogi Bharthari (1954), Malka-E-Alam ...
Bina Roy
Bina Roy, best known for her roles in films like Anarkali (1953) and Taj Mahal (1963), passed away in Mumbai on December 6, 2009 following a cardiac arrest. Bina Roy was born Krishna Sarin on July 13, 1932 in Lahore. Bina Roy was a 1st year Arts student at the Isabella Theodore College in Lucknow ...
Mohana Cabral
Mohana Cabral was a Goan Christian. A famous konkani theater personality and singer during late 40s and early 50s in Bombay and Goa. She acted in many hindi movies of late 40s and early 50′s and sang a couple of songs in hindi movies also. After many years of acting on stage, Mohana left for ...
Dev Anand
Along with Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand completes the trio of the top male stars from the 1950s and 1960s who established the dominant acting style of post-Independence Hindi cinema. Born in Gurdaspur, Punjab, as Devdutt Pishorimal Anand to a well-off family (his father was a lawyer) Anand received a BA. with honors ...
Madhuri Dixit
Madhuri Dixit was the leading female star of the 1990s. Born in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, into a middle-class family — her father is an engineer and her siblings are professionals settled in the U.S. – Dixit was studying biology at Parle college, when she was offered the chance to act in the Hindi film, Abodh (Innocent; ...
Nargis
Born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, as Fatima A Rashid, Nargis was introduced to films at the age of five by her mother — actress, singer, and filmmaker Jaddanbai. Nargis acted in five films as “Baby Rani,” and then starred in her first leading role at the age of 14 in Mehboob Khan’s Taqdeer (Luck). Although ...
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