Nostalgia......yesteryear Actresses |
Nostalgia......yesteryear Actresses |
Reeth |
Mar 28 2007, 03:07 PM
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Saluting the beautiful and talented leading ladies of yesteryears ....
DEVIKA RANI She is considered to be the 'First Lady' of the Indian cinema.Grand niece of Rabindranath Tagore she was truly a great beauty..........discovered by Himanshu Rai, who she later married . They together set up the Famous" Bombay Talkies Studio " beginning with a murder mystery 'Jawani ki hawa' in which Devika Rani played the lead.........thus began a successful film career... Some of her most memorable films were Karma Jawani ki hawa Achoot kanya( with Ashok kumar considered to be a classic and a landmark in the history of Indian cinema) Izzat Jeevan naiyya Durga Savitri Anjaan Hamari Baat Himanshu Rai died in 1940,after which she took control of Bomabay Talkies and kept the banner flying high with hits such as Kangan, Bandhan Jhoola, Kismet, Punarmilan... In 1945 she quit films to marry the noted Russian painter Dr Svetoslav Roerich and retired to a life of domesticity, in their sprwaling estate 'thatguni' in Bangalore, where she lived till her death in 1994,but maintained her link with the film industry... She was honoured with the " Padmashri" in 1958, and she became the first film personality to be awarded he Dada Sahab Palkhe Award in 1969. Devika rani photographed a few years before her death.... Attached image(s) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind -William James |
Reeth |
Mar 28 2007, 03:10 PM
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plss fel free to post your comments, feedbacks and any additional information......
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind -William James |
nasir |
Mar 28 2007, 10:25 PM
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plss fel free to post your comments, feedbacks and any additional information...... Devika Rani is best remembered for her discovery of DILIP KUMAR. I think she can also be credited as being the First Lady of the Silver Screen and the person who actually kissed her screen hero. Her tragedy lies in the fact that after her second husband (ROERICH's) demise she found herself surrounded by money-grubbers. Her employees were out to grab chunks of large estate in Bangalore. I wonder now what has happened to her large estate. Despite being an actress of the Thirties, she was most accomplished and modern in every sense. NASIR. NASIR
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noorie |
Mar 29 2007, 01:14 AM
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plss fel free to post your comments, feedbacks and any additional information...... Devika Rani is best remembered for her discovery of DILIP KUMAR. I think she can also be credited as being the First Lady of the Silver Screen and the person who actually kissed her screen hero. Her tragedy lies in the fact that after her second husband (ROERICH's) demise she found herself surrounded by money-grubbers. Her employees were out to grab chunks of large estate in Bangalore. I wonder now what has happened to her large estate. Despite being an actress of the Thirties, she was most accomplished and modern in every sense. NASIR. She gave Indian cinema's first 'smouldering' smooch with her first husband Himanshu Rai in the 1933 film Karma if I am not wrong. Her second husband Dr.Svetoslav Roerich the Russian painter who made his home in India..... I his paintings especially his landscapes. The Kulu valley has never looked so beautiful as when he painted them. Here's a painting he did of his celebrated wife entitled ‘Mme Devika Rani Roerich’. Noorie "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" "You have enemies? Good! It means that you stood up for something, sometime in your life." |
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