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Nargis died in 1981 of pancreatic cancer, only three days before her son Sanjay Dutt made his debut in Hindi films with the film Rocky. [8] In 1982, the Nargis Dutt Memorial Cancer Foundation was established in her memory.
She died of Pancreatic Cancer on 3 May 1981 (just 4 days before her son Sanjay Dutt’s debut film Rocky). Along with her husband, Nargis founded the Ajanta Arts Cultural Troupe, which included several leading singers and actors of the time.
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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...
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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...
Nov 21, 2013 · When Nargis, unsurpassed First Lady of the Indian Screen, Member of Parliament and social worker, died early on May 3, the profound sense of shock in the country was not alleviated by the knowledge that she was suffering from a fatal form of pancreatic cancer.
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May 3, 2023 · The most prosaic of the great Hindi movie heroines of the twentieth century did not die of heart disease or of alcoholism. When the characters of her peers were being forged in the fires of Partition, she grew up on Bombay’s Marine Drive in a large and happily multi-religious family.
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May 3, 2020 · Nargis died of pancreatic cancer in 1981, just days before the release of Rocky, her son, Sanjay Dutt’s first movie. She was 51 years old and left behind a substantive body of work that proved she could play both a royal persona in an epic like Humayun and a spoiled cosmopolitan girl like in Andaz.
