Meena kumari husband
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The real name of Meena Kumari was Mahjabeen Bano. After her first movie ‘Leather Face’, Vijay Bhatt changed her name and proposed to her three names to choose from—Prabha, Kamla and Meena. She eventually became ‘Meena Kumari’, although her nickname was Manju. She had two other sisters, one of whom got married to the famous actor Mahmood who is well-renowned for his comic roles. Starting her acting career as a child artist, she rose to unprecedented heights of fame and acclaim in her thirty-three years long career. She became the first female actor to have won a Filmfare Award. The movie ‘Baiju Bawra’ that got her this award also proved to be the first major film among many others that were to bring her tremendous success.
Meena Kumari was an avid reader and a big fan of Mirza Ghalib at that. She owned an impressive collection of books in her personal library including all the works of Ghalib. At the sets of the movie ‘Benazir’, director Bimal Roy’s assistant got Meena introduced to the famous writer an
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Meena Kumari Age, Death, Husband, Children, Family, Biography & More
• Manju
in meters- 1.68 m
in feet & inches- 5’ 6”
Film (As a Playback Singer): Bahen
• 1954: Won Best Actress Award for Baiju Bawra
• 1955: Won Best Actress Award for Parineeta
• 1956: Nominated for Best Actress for Azaad
• 1959: Nominated for Best Actress for Sahara
• 1960: Nominated for Best Actress for Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan
• 1963: Won Best Actress Award for Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam
• 1963: Nominated for Best Actress Award for Aarti
• 1963: Nominated for Best Actress for Main Chup Rahungi
• 1964: Nominated for Best Actress for Dil Ek Mandir
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Meena Kumari (book)
Biography by Vinod Mehta
Meena Kumari is a biography by Vinod Mehta about the Indian actress of the same name. It details her birth in 1933 in Bombay (present-day Mumbai), her 33-year-long acting career, her marriage to Kamal Amrohi, and her death in 1972. It also includes Mehta's analysis on her career and film roles. The first edition published in October 1972 by Jaico Publishing House was praised by critics, but its second edition, Meena Kumari: The Classic Biography, released on 10 July 2013 by HarperCollins, met with mixed criticism.
Luiz Vaz of Jaico Publishing House approached Mehta, then a copywriter, to write a biography on Kumari soon after her death in March 1972. Though unfamiliar with Bollywood, Mehta took the opportunity to expand his scope of work. In research, he met her family members and contemporaries, and also collected archived film magazines. His writing style is influenced by New Journalism, where the authors are placed as the narrative's core and refer to themselves with first-person pronouns.
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Meena Kumari
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