Sitara Devi
Sitara Devi (real name Dhanalakshmi * 8. November 1920 in Calcutta ; † 25. November 2014 in Mumbai ) was an Indian Kathak - dancer and film actress .
Life
She is the daughter of Sukhdev Maharaj, a Varanasi court musician at the royal court of Nepal . As a child she learned to Kathak with her father and later at the Kathak masters of Lucknow - Gharana Achhan , Shambhu and Lachhu Maharaj . When she was ten years old, her family moved to Bombay. Sitara performed there as a dancer in movie theaters during breaks. She then got a job as a child actress at the Sagar Film Company and was seen in several films as a dancer from 1931. She played there under the direction of Sarvottam Badami , Mehboob Khan and AR Kardar . Sitara Devi took on leading roles for the first time with Kardars Baghban (1938) and Mehboobs Watan (1939).
After moving to the film company Ranjit Movietone , she worked with Chandulal Shah in his film Achhut in 1940 and starred in the three famous films AR Kardars from that year: Holi , Pagal and Pooja . In addition to P. Jairaj , she played the leading female role in Kardars Premchand filming Swami (1941), an ultra-conservative film about two married as children who only met late as adults. In Mehboob Khan's Roti (1942), her vivid portrayal of a tribal woman, alongside the music of Anil Biswas, is one of the reasons for the film's commercial success.
Sitara Devi was married several times. In her second husband K. Asif's directorial debut , the film Phool (1944), she played a leading role alongside Suraiya , Prithviraj Kapoor and Durga Khote . She had her last film appearance in 1957 in Chetan Anands Anjali .
After that, she mainly devoted herself to dance. She had international dance appearances in 1967 in the Royal Albert Hall in London and in 1976 in Carnegie Hall in New York . The drummer Ranjit Barot and the dancer Jayanti Mala are her children.
Filmography
- 1931: Digvijay
- 1933: Aurat Ka Dil
- 1934: Anokhi Mohabbat
- 1934: Shaher Ka Jadoo
- 1934: Vasantsena
- 1935: Azad Abla
- 1935: Judgment of Allah
- 1935: Vengeance is Mine
- 1935: Registan Ki Rani
- 1936: Grihadah [Bengali] / Mazil [Hindi]
- 1936: Prem Bandhan
- 1936: Zan Mureed
- 1937: Begunah
- 1937: Calcutta after Midnight
- 1937: Jeevan Swapna
- 1937: Kokila
- 1937: Mahageet
- 1938: Baghban
- 1938: Professor Waman M.Sc.
- 1938: Watan
- 1939: Meri Aankhen
- 1939: Nadi Kinare
- 1939: Pati Patni
- 1940: Achhut
- 1940: Aaj Ka Hindustan
- 1940: Haiwan
- 1940: Holi
- 1940: Pooja
- 1940: Pagal
- 1940: Zindagi
- 1941: Swami
- 1942: Dhiraj
- 1942: Dukh Sukh
- 1942: Kalyug
- 1942: Roti
- 1942: Society
- 1943: Aabroo
- 1943: Andhera
- 1943: Bhalai
- 1943: Chhed Chhad
- 1943: Najma
- 1943: Salma
- 1944: Chand
- 1944: Dr. Kumar
- 1944: Phool
- 1945: Badi Maa
- 1945: Parinde
- 1947: Amar Asha
- 1949: Lekh
- 1950: Bijli
- 1951: Hulchul
- 1957: Anjali
Awards
- 1969: Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
- 1973: Padma Shri
- 1995: Kalidas Samman
- 2008: Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship
- 2011: Legends of India Lifetime Achievement Award
literature
- Entry to Sitara Devi . In Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , pp. 88 f.
Web links
- Sitara Devi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kathak legend Sitara Devi passes away in The Hindu on November 25, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sitara Devi - The Kathak Legend ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Empress of Kathak in The Indian Express of September 3, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Devi, Sitara |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dhanalakshmi, Sitara |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian Kathak dancer and film actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Calcutta |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 25, 2014 |
| Place of death | Mumbai |