Sharmila Tagore

Sharmila Tagore

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Sharmila Tagore Profile

  • Name:
  • Sharmila Tagore
  • Other Name:
  • Begum Ayesha Sultana
  • Born:
  • December 8, 1944
  • Father:
  • Gitindranath Tagore
  • Spouse:
  • Mansoor Ali Khan Pathaudi
  • Awards:
  • Filmfare best actress award for Aradhana (1969), National award for Mausam (1976), Supporting Actress National Awards for Abhar Aranye (2004) and Padma Bhushan in 2013.

Sharmila Tagore Biography

 

Sharmila Tagore is the great-great-grand niece of great Indian poet Rabindra Nath Tagore. She was born in a Hindu Bengal family in Hyderabad. He debut as heroine in Satyajith ray’s movie Apur Sansar in 1959 and Ray has given her most memorable movie roles in her film career.  She did many Bengali movies before she landed in Bollywood through Kashmir ki Kali in 1964, along with Shammi kapoor. She perfectly portrayed a Kashmiri village girl. But her destination was something else. She wanted to do glamorous roles and she proved her talent as a modern girl in ‘An evening in Paris’, again with Shammi kapoor. Both these movies were very successful and still remembered for its golden tunes. Both these movies were directed by Shakthi Samantha who have given her the best movies of her career later -  Aradhana and Amar prem, pairing her with Rajesh Khanna.

 

Though her bikini roles in ‘An Evening in Paris’ established her as a sex symbol on Indian screen, her reformation through Aradhana made a significant change in her screen presence. Aradhana proved to be a block buster and was a trend setter that established both Rajesh khanna and Kishore kumar as overnight stars. The way by which she transformed herself from a sex symbol to a lady of our neighbourhood is really remarkable. She did the role of a college girl, lover, widow and old woman in the movie and that also, without much tears and over acting. The whole crowd cried with her tears thus making her an established actress in Bollywood.

 

Before she started working in Aradhana, she got married to Mansoor Ali Khan Pathaudi and when the movie was released, she was carrying Saif Ali Khan in her womb. Rajesh Khanna – Sharmila Tagore pair is considered to the top pair of Bollywood of 70’s. Apart from Aradhana, they acted together in Amar Prem, Raja aur rani, Safar and Daag. She was paired with almost all successful actors of that time. Anupama along with Dharmendra, Waqt along with Shashi Kapoor, Mausam along with Sanjeev Kumar and Desh Premee with Amitabh Bachchan are memorable roles.

 

Mere sapnom ki rani and Roop tera masthana from Aradhana are still hot favourites of everyone. Soha Ali khan – her daughter though reached Bollywood couldn’t retain her mother’s success. But her son Saif Ali Khan has already proved to be a cash maker n Bollywood.

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