Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Nargis

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Jun 28, 2012, 3:29:58 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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+'''Nargis (1929-81)'''
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+Hindi-Urdu megastar born in Allahabad as
+Fatima A. Rashid. Daughter of actress, singer
+and film-maker Jaddanbai who introduced her
+to films aged 5 as Baby Rani in Sangeet Films’
+Talash-e-Haq. Early films with Mehboob
+including her first lead role in Taqdeer and as
+Hamida Bano in Humayun. Best known as
+Raj Kapoor’s romantic lead in some of Indian
+cinema’s most enduring melodramas: Barsaat,
+Andaz, Awara, Shri 420, and Anhonee in
+which she played a double role. Kapoor used a
+suggestive image from their Barsaat as the
+emblem for his R.K. Films. Both Kapoor and
+Mehboob in their later films built upon her
+early screen image in historicals and
+indigenised Shakespearean love tragedies (e.g.
+the Kamal Amrohi-scripted Romeo and Juliet)
+where she was often presented as the femme
+fatale doomed to destruction by her beauty, an
+updated version of a stereotype from Islamic
+literature and music. Her performances in e.g.
+Babul and Jogan also remained the model for
+that stereotype. From the beginning, Nargis’s
+performances were authentic to a degree
+unprecedented in Indian cinema, giving the
+Imperial and Sagar Studios’ Arabian Nights
+fantasies new layers of meaning. Mehboob
+used her as the pivotal figure in his attempts to
+merge the symbologies of feudal patriarchy
+into those of capitalism (Andaz) while Raj
+Kapoor injected Oedipal impulses into his
+encounters with ‘tradition’. The pinnacle of her
+career was Mother India, an epic pot-pourri
+of psychoanalytic, historic and technological
+symbols condensing the All-India Film’s post-
+WW2 nationalist sentiment. Turned producer
+with Nargis Art, producing films directed by
+Akhtar Hussain. Married actor Sunil Dutt
+(1959) who played her son in Mother India.
+Then virtually retired but remained an
+important public figure, becoming a Congress
+(I) MP in the early 80s, at one time using that
+platform for a scathing attack on Satyajit Ray’s
+films for exporting images of India’s poverty.
+She was much honoured by the Indian and
+Soviet governments. Died of cancer shortly
+after seeing her and Sunil Dutt’s son, Sanjay, in
+his screen début in Rocky (1981).
+
+
+'''FILMOGRAPHY''' (* as Baby Rani): 1934:
+Naachwali*; 1935: Talash-e-Haq*; 1936:
+Hridaya Manthan*; Madam Fashion*; 1937:
+Moti Ka Haar*; 1942: Tamanna;
+Pardanasheen; 1943: Taqdeer; 1944: Anban;
+Ismat; 1945: Biswi Sadi; Humayun;
+Ramayani; 1946: Nargis; 1947: Mehndi;
+Romeo and Juliet; 1948: Aag; Anjuman;
+Anokha Pyar; Mela; 1949: Andaz; Barsaat;
+Darogaji; Lahore; Rumal; 1950: Adhi Raat;
+Babul; Bhishma Pratigya; Birha Ki Raat;
+Chhoti Bhabhi; Jaan Pehchan; Jogan; Khel;
+Meena Bazaar; Pyar; 1951: Awara; Deedar;
+Hulchul; Pyar Ki Baatein; Sagar; 1952: Amber;
+Anhonee; Ashiana; Bewafa; Sheesha; 1953:
+Aah; Dhun; Pehli Shaadi; Paapi; 1954:
+Angarey; 1955: Shri 420; 1956: Chori Chori;
+Jagte Raho/Ek Din Raatre; 1957: Miss
+India; Mother India; Pardesi; 1958: Adalat;
+Ghar Sansar; Lajwanti; 1967: Raat Aur Din.
+
+[[Actor]]