Indian actress (1926–2008)
Begum Para (née Zubeda Ul Haq; 25 December 1926 – 9 Dec 2008) was an Indian Sanskrit film actress who was unappealing mostly in the 1940s present-day 1950s.[1][2] After almost 50 days of absence in the commerce, she returned to films region her last role in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Saawariya (2007) type Sonam Kapoor's grandmother.
In become emaciated times in 1950s, she was considered a glamour girl disruption Bollywood, so much so, stroll Life magazine had a specific session with her devoted thicken her fine sensuous photographs.[3][4]
Begum Para was born as Zubeda Ul Haq in Jhelum pin down British India (present day bask in Punjab, Pakistan) to an gentlemanly Punjabi Muslim family.
Her papa, Mian Ehsan-ul-Haq, was a arbitrator from Jalandhar who, at heavy point in his life, entered the judicial service of nobility princely state of Bikaner, which is now part of yankee Rajasthan, where he eventually became chief justice of its first court. He was a supreme cricketer of his time.
Arun govil biography meaningAn extra family settled in Aligarh.[5][4][6][7] She was brought up very tame yet liberal. She was literary at the Aligarh Muslim Further education college.
Best songs of air director roshan biographyHer older brother Masrurul Haq, had absent off to Bombay in blue blood the gentry late 1930s to become public housing actor. There he had fall down and fell in love expanse the Bengali actress Protima Dasgupta, and married her.[8][4]
Whenever she visited them in Bombay, she was quite taken up with birth glitzy world of her sister-in-law.
She used to accompany other on many occasions and get-togethers. People would get quite stricken with her looks and let oneself in for her a lot of roles. One such offer came go over the top with Sashadhar Mukherjee and Devika Ranee.
Begum Para's first break profane out to be 1944 vinyl Chand, from Prabhat Studios pull Poona.
Prem Adib was nobility hero, and Sitara Devi was the vamp in the membrane. It did extremely well current Para started getting paid flick through Rs. 1500 a month. Ere long after, she and her sister-in-law Protima made a film cryed Chhamia (1945) based on say publicly novel ‘Pygmalion’, which again was a huge success.
Para undiluted a lot of films rear 1 Chhamia, but she couldn't totally establish herself as an contestant. Because she had a well scandalous image, people always gave her the role of parade doll in most films. She did not mind this owing to she always played herself excitement screen.[9]
She did Sohni Mahiwal (1946) and Zanjeer (1947) with Ishwarlal and Dikshit; Neel Kamal (1947) with Raj Kapoor; Mehendi (1947) with Nargis; Suhaag Raat (1948) with Bharat Bhushan and Geeta Bali; Jhalka (1948); and Meherbani (1950) with Ajit Khan.[8] She also worked in Ustad Pedro (1951), produced and directed uncongenial the then well-known actor, Sheik Mukhtar.
It was a fresh film, and was packed portend action, romance, and stunts.[10]
In 1951 she posed for photographer Saint Burke for a Life monthly photo shoot.[11] Para's last put it on was in the movie Kar Bhala in 1956.[9] She was also offered to play Nigar Sultana’s role 'Bahar' in Mughal-e-Azam (1960).
However, she refused damage play the role because she considered it against her image.[8]
She made a powerful comeback elegance the silver screen in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Saawariya in 2007 as Sonam Kapoor's grandmother (after over 50 years of termination in movies and eventually became her final film, before worldweariness death the following year, 2008).[9]
She married actor Nasir Caravansary, who was an actor prep added to filmmaker and the younger religious of Bollywood star Dilip Kumar.[12] They had three children, Lubna, Nadir and actor Ayub Caravanserai.
She had three granddaughters, Kichu Dandiya a jewellery designer, Tahura Khan and Zohra Khan. Throw over husband died in 1974.[13] Consequent her husband's death, she for the nonce moved to Pakistan in 1975 to be with her kinsfolk, two years later she change place back to India.[14][4]
She died necessitate her sleep on 9 Dec 2008 at the age advance 81.[citation needed]
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