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Sharmila Tagore
Sharmila Tagore in 2009
Born
Sharmila Tagore

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Other namesAyesha Sultana
Ayesha Sultana Khan
Sharmila Tagore Khan
Sharmila Khan
Ayesha Khan(when converted into Muslim)
OccupationActress
Years active1959–present
SpouseMansoor Ali Khan (1969 – present)
ChildrenSaif Ali Khan
Saba Ali Khan
Soha Ali Khan
AwardsStar Screen Lifetime Achievement Award
2003

Sharmila Tagore (Template:Lang-bn Shormila Ṭhakur (born 8 December 1946) and presently known as Ayesha Sultana, is an Indian film actress. She has won several National Film Awards and Filmfare Awards for her performances.

She has led the Indian Film Censor Board. In December 2005 she was chosen as an UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.[1]

Early life

Sharmila Tagore was born in a Hindu Bengali family in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India to Gitindranath Tagore who was then Dy. General Manager of the British India Company owner of Elgin Mills. She attended St. John's Diocesan Girls' Higher Secondary School and Loreto Convent Asansol.[2] She is the great-grandniece of noted poet Rabindranath Tagore.[3][4]

Career

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Sharmila Tagore as Pushpa in Amar Prem, 1972.

Tagore began her career as an actress in Satyajit Ray's 1959 Bengali film Apur Sansar (The World of Apu), as the ill-fated bride of the title character. As noted on the official website for Ray, "She was just a fourteen-year-old then, with no previous acting experience. As the shooting began, Ray had to shout instructions to Sharmila during the takes. None of this, however, is reflected on the screen. Ray cast her in his next film Devi too."[5] She appeared in a number of Ray films, often co-starring with Soumitra Chatterjee.

She established herself as a popular Hindi film actress with Shakti Samanta's Kashmir Ki Kali in 1964. Samanta again cast her in many more hit films, notably An Evening in Paris (1967), the first appearance in a bikini of an Indian actress,[6][7] (Sadhana had appeared in one-piece bikini in earlier films) which not only shocked conservative Indian audiences[8][9] but also set off a wave of bikini-clad actresses carried forward by Parveen Babi (in Yeh Nazdeekiyan, 1982[10]), Zeenat Aman (in Heera Panna, 1973; Qurbani, 1980[10]) and Dimple Kapadia (in Bobby, 1973[10]), but established Tagore's role as somewhat of a sex symbol in Bollywood.[11][12][13] Wearing a bikini put her name in the Indian press as one of Bollywood's ten hottest actresses of all time, and was a transgression of female identity through a reversal of the state of modesty, which functions as a signifier of femininity in Bombay films.[14] But, when Tagore was the chairperson of the Central Board of Film Certification, she expressed concerns about the rise of the bikini in Indian films.[15]

Samanta later teamed up Tagore with Rajesh Khanna for movies such as Aradhana (1969) and Amar Prem (1972). Other directors paired them together in Daag (1973), Maalik (1972) and Safar (1970). She starred in Gulzar's 1975 film, Mausam, and played a supporting role as heroine Sarita Choudhury's mother in Mira Nair's 1991 film Mississippi Masala.

Her latest release is a Marathi film Samaantar by Amol Palekar. Her earlier releases were Vidhu Vinod Chopra's Eklavya: The Royal Guard, which brought together real life mother and son, Sharmila Tagore and Saif Ali Khan. They shared screen space for the first time since Aashiq Awara (1993).

Personal life

Tagore married Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Nawab of Pataudi, in a Nikah ceremony held on 27 December 1969. She changed her name to Begum Ayesha Sultana after marriage. They have three children: Saif Ali Khan (b. 1970), Saba Ali Khan(b. 1976)[16] and Soha Ali Khan (b. 1978).

Awards

Select filmography

Year Film Director Role Other notes
1959 Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) Satyajit Ray Aparna
1960 Devi / The Goddess Satyajit Ray Doyamoyee
1963 Nirjan Saikatey Tapan Sinha Renu
1963 Chhaya Shurjo Ghentoo
1964 Kashmir Ki Kali Shakti Samanta Champa
1965 Waqt Yash Chopra Renu Khanna
1966 Anupama Hrishikesh Mukherjee Uma Sharma
Devar Mohan Sehgal
Nayak Satyajit Ray Aditi
1967 An Evening in Paris Shakti Samanta Deepa Malik/Roopa Malik (Suzy)
Aamne Saamne Suraj Prakash
1969 Yakeen Brij Rita
Satyakam Hrishikesh Mukherjee Ranjana
Aradhana Shakti Samanta Vandhana Tripathi Winner, Filmfare Best Actress Award
1970 Aranyer Din Ratri (Days and Nights in the Forest) Satyajit Ray Aparna
1971 Seemabaddha Satyajit Ray Tutul
Chhoti Bahu K.B. Tilak Radha
1972 Amar Prem Shakti Samanta Pushpa
1973 Daag Yash Chopra Sonia Kohli
Aa Gale Lag Jaa Manmohan Desai Preeti
1975 Mausam Gulzar Chanda/Kajli Winner, National Film Award for Best Actress
Chupke Chupke Hrishikesh Mukherjee Sulekha Chaturvedi
Faraar Shanker Mukherjee Mala / Asha
1977 Amanush Shakti Samanta Rekha
1979 Dooriyaan Bhimsain Khurana
1982 Namkeen Gulzar Nimki
Desh Premee Manmohan Desai Bharti
1984 Sunny Sunny's mother
1991 Mississippi Masala Mira Nair Kinnu
1993 Aashiq Awara Umesh Mehra Mrs. Singh
1999 Mann Indra Kumar Dev's grandmother
2000 Dhadkan Dharmesh Darshan Dev's mother
2003 Shubho Mahurat Rituparno Ghosh Padmini Chowdhury
2005 Viruddh... Family Comes First Mahesh Manjrekar Sumitra Patwardhan Nominated, Filmfare Best Actress Award
2006 Eklavya: The Royal Guard Vidhu Vinod Chopra Suhasinidevi
2007 Fool and Final Ahmed Khan Bhabi
2008 Tasveer 8*10 Nagesh Kukunoor Savithri Puri
2009 Morning Walk Arup Dutta Neelima
Samaantar Amol Palekar Shama Vaze Marathi
2010 Break Ke Baad Danish Aslam Ayesha Khan }

See also

References

  1. ^ Rediff.com webpage
  2. ^ Zaman, Rana Siddiqui (7 August 2009). "My First Break -- Sharmila Tagore". Friday Review Delhi. The Hindu. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
  3. ^ http://www.filmnirvana.com/celebrity/sharmila-tagore/2764
  4. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/09/movies/at-the-movies.html?pagewanted=all
  5. ^ Satyajitray.org
  6. ^ Stuff Reporter, "Being Sharmila, all through life", The Hindu, 2006-04-03
  7. ^ Lalit Mohan Joshi & Gulzar, Derek Malcolm, Bollywood, page 20, Lucky Dissanayake, 2002, ISBN 0-9537032-2-3
  8. ^ Various writers, Rashtriya Sahara, page 28, Sahara India Mass Communication, 2002
  9. ^ Manjima Bhattacharjya, "Why the bikini is badnaam", Times of India, 2007-11-25
  10. ^ a b c Avijit Ghosh, "Bollywood's unfinished revolution", The Times of India, 2006-07-02
  11. ^ Subhash K Jha, "Bollywood's 10 hottest actresses of all time, Times of India, 2003-01-19
  12. ^ B. K. Karanjia, Blundering in Wonderland‎, page 18, Vikas Publishing House, 1990, ISBN 0-7069-4961-7
  13. ^ Sharmila Tagore, Showbiz Legends, SantaBanta
  14. ^ Sumita S. Chakravarty, National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947-1987‎, page 321, University of Texas Press, 1993, ISBN 0-292-75551-1
  15. ^ Preeti Mudliar, "Without Cuts", Pune Newsline, 2005-04-11
  16. ^ http://www.rediff.com/movies/2007/aug/28saif.htm

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