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 |
maheshks |
Apr 25 2007, 01:30 AM
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Visited this thread today only...thanks reeth for the inputs...though many of
them are not correct...but still a good effort considering that you have ventured into this subject very recently.... Janaab Nasir Saheb....Meena Kumari had six fingers in her right hand and no other abnormality. When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others
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