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Nadira who was born on 5 December 1932 was a profound Bollywood actress who contributed a lot to the Indian cinema. Nadira is best remembered for her performance in the 1950s and 1960s flicks like Shree 420 (1955), Pakeezah (1972) and Julie (1975), which also won her Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award. Nadira acquired lot of fame with the 1952 film Aan with her role as a savage princess. Other than this Nadira played lead roles in a number of films like Dil Apna Prit Parayee, Hanste Zakhm, Amar Akbar Anthony and Pakeezah. In the 1980s and 1990s, Nadira entered a new phase of her career, playing elderly women as a supporting actress in Bollywood films. The actress was last seen in the film Josh (2000). On 9 February 2006, this dynamic lady died at the age of 73 at the Bhatia Hospital in Tardeo, Mumbai following a prolonged illness.

Parveen Babi , a Gujrati Muslim and the beautiful actress of the bollywood, was born on 4th april, 1949 in Junagarh, India . Her original name was Parveen Wali Mohammad Khan Babi. She was the only child of her parents and was born fourteen years after the marriage of her parents. She did her schooling in Aurangabad and graduation from St. Xavier's in Ahemdabad. Parveen Babi entered in the film industry in the year 1973 with the film Charitra while she was studying in the college and was a leading and successful actress in 1970s. Parvven Babi was the first Indian actress who was featured on the Time Magazine's cover in 1975. She has given superhit films Deewar(1975), Amar Akbar Anthony (1977), Shaan(1980), Kalia(1981), Khuddar(1982) in which she was paired with the superstar Amitabh Bachchan . Some of her hit films are: Majboor(1974) 36 Ghante(1974) Trinurti(1974) Bullet(1976) Chandni Sona(1977) Kranti(1981) Namak Halaal(1982) Parveen Babi has a very good chemistry with Amitab...

Image by Bollywoodzone via Flickr Shabana Azmi (born 18 September, 1950 in New Delhi, India) is one of the leading actresses of Indian cinema . Also a social activist,her performances in different genres of films have garnered her accolades and awards including five wins of National Film Award for Best Actress. Shabana Azmi hails from a renowned Muslim family with film connections. Her parents were, Kaifi Azmi - a renowned Indian poet and writer of Urdu, and Shaukat Azmi - a well known stage actress . Her brother , Baba Azmi, is a cinematographer. Her parents had an active social life, and their home was always throbbing with people and activities . Farah, Naaz and Tabu are her nieces. In the initial stage of her career, she was linked to noted film director Shekhar Kapur, but married Javed Akhtar , a lyricist, poet and Bollywood scriptwriter on 9 December, 1984. It was Akhtar's second marriage, the first being with the Bollywood scriptwriter, Honey Irani. Early in childhood...