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Nargis starred in Mehboob Khan's Oscar-nominated epic drama Mother India (1957), the highest-grossing film in India at that point of time, for which she won Filmfare Award for Best Actress. Her last film was the drama Raat Aur Din (1967), for which she received the inaugural National Film Award for Best Actress .
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Nargis was born on 1 June 1929 as Fatima Rashid in Kolkata(West Bengal). After some time, her family shifted to Allahabad from West Bengal. Her mother who was a classical singer introduced Nargis to the cinema world. Although Nargis had a desire to become a doctor, yet as per the wish of her mother, she decided to build her career in the film Indus...
Her father Mohanchand Uttamchand Tyagi was a wealthy Hindu Brahmin from Rawalpindi, Punjab (now in Pakistan), who later, adopted Islam and take the name, Abdul Rashid. Hermother Jaddanbai, was an Indian classical singer. Nargis had a loving affair with her co-star Raj Kapoor, during her movies ‘Awara‘ and ‘Shree 420.‘ But when Raj Kapoor denied div...
At the age of six, Nargis made a debut of her career with the movie ‘Talashe Haq‘ in 1935. As a child artist, she worked in the second movie ‘Madam Fashion‘directed by her mother Jaddanbai. When she was 14 years old, she acted in the movie ‘Taqdeer,’ directed and produced byMehboob Khan in 1943. After this, she performed in numerous super hit movie...
According to a rumour Motilal Nehru, father of former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, was said to be the maternal grandfather of Nargis Dutt as her mother Jaddanbai was the resultant child of the...
Yet, by the time she retired from Hindi cinema with Khan’s iconic Mother India (1957) as Nargis, she had become immortalized in public memory as a brilliant actor who enlivened Hindi cinema—and...
Jun 1, 2023 · Even though Nargis was one of the most respected actors in the 1950s, the 1957 film Mother India, directed by Mehboob Khan, put her on a pedestal that no other female actor had seen before. Playing a woman through the span of her life — from a young bride to mother of two adult children – Nargis pushed the boundary of what an actor could do ...
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Apr 25, 2021 · Attacking Satyajit Ray. Following her Presidential Nomination to the Rajya Sabha, on April 3, 1980, Nargis virtually kicked off a storm of controversy in her very maiden speech, by dubbing Satyajit Ray as a “peddler of India’s poverty.”
Nargis appeared in numerous movies after her film debut; she won lasting fame for her later, adult, roles, starting with at the age of 14, in Mehboob Khan's Taqdeer in 1943 opposite, Motilal.
With the memories of Irrfan Khan and Rishi Kapoor’s deaths still fresh in the minds of all, it should be known that on May 3, 1981 when Nargis passed away, she had been battling pancreatic...
