Who was the first Indian actress in which film?
could you also tell me what was the early trends of woman acting in indian films as early as 1947!?
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- Nadira (December 5, 1932 – February 9, 2006) was an Indian actress in Bollywood films. She is best remembered for her performance in films in the 1950s and 1960s (such as Shree 420 (1955)).
Nadira was born as Farhat Ezekiel (some suggest Florence Ezekiel) on December 5, 1932, in Nagpada, South Bombay, a perdominantly Muslim and Jewish locality, into a Baghdadi Jewish family. Her parents divorced when she was just four years old and she and her brothers were raised by her grandmother. She was still in her teens when she was spotted by Sardar Akhtar, wife of the great filmmaker Mehboob Khan. After convincing her mother, Sardar Akhtar took Farhat under her wing, groomed her and re-christened her Nadira.
She was married twice. Her first marriage, to a Muslim Urdu poet and film-maker called Naqshab and converted to Islam this marriage ended unhappily. She then married a man who turned out to be a fortune-hunter. The marriage lasted only a week. For the latter part of her life, she lived alone in Mumbai, as many of her relatives had moved to Israel. For the last three years of her life, she is said to have kept entirely to her Bombay flat, where she lived with her housekeeper, Shobha.
Nadira died in the Bhatia Hospital at Tardeo, Bombay, India on February 9, 2006, aged 73, following a prolonged illness. She had been hospitalized on February 2nd and lay ailing in the hospital after suffering from a paralytic stroke combined with a heart attack. She is survived by two brothers, one of whom lives in the USA and another in Israel.
Throughout her life, Nadira had suffered from a variety of illnesses including, tubercular meningitis, & paralysis. Her bout with heavy alcoholic drinking also resulted in alcoholic liver disorder.
- indian got independence in 1947. in 1947 the partition b/w india and pakistan happened. so before 1947, india and pakistan share common history.
but still v can devide 4 d sake of ur answer:
india's first cinema show was in 1896 but it was with foreign collabration.india's first feature film which was produced by an indian was raja harishchandra in 1913.The first heroine for Indian film was not a female but a young boy. Salunke, who acted as Taramati in India's first feature film “Raja Harishchandra”. Kamala, a Maharashtrian lady, was the first female heroine in an Indian film with her lead role in Dadasaheb Phalke's second film “Bhasmasur Mohini” produced in 1913. Kamala's mother Durgabai also featured in the film.
The first Indian sound film was Alam Ara (1931).actress was Zubaida.
india's history is associated with pakistan. The first ever silent feature film from Lahore was "Daughter of Today"realeased in 1924. well lahore was in india at that time but now its in pakistan. actress of this film was Wilayat Begum.
The Last Big film before partition was Jugnu (Urdu/Hindi)
Realesed on: 1947. actresses were Noor Jehan, Shashikala, Sulochana.
raja harishchandra is considered as indian bcoz it was produced on indian land.
while daughter of today is considered as pakistani bcoz it was produced on pakistani land.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/nadira_(act...
- Indian as in....?
Do you mean the Indians from India, formally Hindustan, or do you mean the North American/South American Indians?