Zohra Segal

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Zohra Segal (also Zohra Sehgal ; born April 27, 1912 in Saharanpur , British India ; † July 10, 2014 in New Delhi ) was an Indian dancer , stage and film actress .

Life

Zohra Segal ( front left ) as part of the Uday Shankar Ballet Troupe (approx. 1935–1937)

Zohra Segal was born in 1912 under the name Zohra Begum Mumtaz-ullah Khan. She grew up in Chakrata in northern India and attended Queen Mary's Girls College in Lahore until 1929 . Then she traveled to Europe with her aunt and studied modern dance for three years at Mary Wigman's dance school in Dresden . In 1935 she joined Uday Shankar's dance company after seeing them on their European tour. She toured with the ballet troupe in Japan, Egypt, Europe and the USA. From 1940 she taught at the Uday Shankar India Cultural Center in Almora . There she met her husband, the eight years younger dancer Kameshwar Segal. Zohra and Kameshwar Segal married in 1942. The marriage had two children.

After the ballet troupe disbanded , she worked with her husband for a short time in Lahore, then in Bombay , where her sister Uzra Butt - who had lived in Pakistan since 1964 - was already an actress at Prithviraj Kapoor's Prithvi Theater . In 1945 Zohra Segal also became a member of the Prithvi Theater, for which she appeared for 14 years. At the same time she was active in acting and film with the Indian People's Theater Association . She made her film debut in 1946 in the first IPTA film Dharti Ke Lal , directed by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas , followed in the same year by Neecha Nagar by Chetan Anand , which was shown at the Cannes Film Festival . On stage she played in plays by Abbas and Ebrahim Alkazi, among others .

After her husband's suicide in 1959, she first moved to Delhi and then to London in 1962 . From the mid-1960s to the 1990s, she appeared in television series and films in England. She played in James Ivory's The Courtesans of Bombay (1982) and the leading role of Lady Chatterjee in the television series The Jewel in the Crown (1984). Director Gurinder Chadha has also cast Segal in her films again and again since Bhaji on the Beach (1993).

In the late 1990s Zohra Segal went back to India and lived in Delhi with her daughter Kiran Segal , a well-known Odissi dancer. After 1998 she appeared in several Hindi films , including Dil Se (1998), Chalo Ishq Ladaaye (2002) and Saawariya (2007).

In 1963 she was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Prize as a stage actress . In 2004 she received a fellowship from this institution . She was also the holder of the state medals Padma Shri (1998), Padma Bhushan (2002) and Padma Vibhushan (2010). In 2001 she was awarded the art prize of the Madhya Pradesh government , the Kalidas Samman .

Her daughter's autobiography "Fatty" was published on her 100th birthday.

Zohra Segal died on July 10, 2014 at the age of 102 in a hospital in New Delhi.

Filmography

  • 1946: Dharti Ke Lal
  • 1946: Neecha Nagar
  • 1950: Afsar
  • 1956: Army
  • 1964: The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling
  • 1964–1965: Doctor Who (TV series)
  • 1967: The battle (The Long Duel)
  • 1967: Theater 625 (TV series)
  • 1968: The Vengeance of She
  • 1968: The Expert (TV series)
  • 1969: The Guru
  • 1973: The Regiment (TV series)
  • 1973: Tales That Witness Madness
  • 1974: It Ain't Half Hot Mum (TV series)
  • 1978: Mind Your Language (TV series)
  • 1983: The Courtesans of Bombay
  • 1984: The Jewel in the Crown (TV series)
  • 1985: Tandoori Nights (TV series)
  • 1985: harem
  • 1986: Caravaggio
  • 1987: Partition
  • 1987: Never Say Die
  • 1989: Manika, une vie plus tard
  • 1989: The Bill
  • 1991: Masala
  • 1992: Firm Friends
  • 1993: Bhaji on the Beach
  • 1994: Little Napoleons
  • 1995: Amma and Family (TV series)
  • 1997: Tamanna
  • 1998: Not a Nice Man to Know
  • 1998: With all my heart (Dil Se)
  • 1999: Khwaish
  • 1999: Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
  • 2000: Tera Jadoo Chal Gayaa
  • 2001: Landmark
  • 2001: Zindagi Kitni Khoobsoorat Hai
  • 2001: The Mystic Masseur
  • 2002: Kick it like Beckham (Bend It Like Beckham)
  • 2002: Anita and Me
  • 2002: Chalo Ishq Ladaaye
  • 2003: Saaya
  • 2004: Kaun Hai Jo Sapno Mein Aaya?
  • 2004: Veer and Zaara - The Legend of a Love (Veer-Zaara)
  • 2005: Chicken Tikka Masala
  • 2005: The Mistress of Spices (The Mistress of Spices)
  • 2007: Cheeni Kum
  • 2007: Saawariya

literature

Web links

Commons : Zohra Sehgal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ in this spelling she preferred her name according to her official biography (former weblink of the Times of India from April 28, 2012 no longer available)
  2. ^ Zohra Segal: The Drama of Life in The Times of India, August 24, 2003
  3. ↑ The dashing dadima in The Times of India from April 8, 2001
  4. ↑ Ninety an spunky ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2008 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. in The Hindu of December 19, 2002 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hinduonnet.com
  5. ↑ Real life drama in The Hindu from November 14, 2004
  6. ↑ Women of substance in The Telegraph India, December 23, 2006
  7. ^ Official list of winners - Drama - Acting of the Sangeet Natak Akademi
  8. ^ Zohra's century: Grande dame of Indian theater celebrates 100th birthday with a book on her remarkable life
  9. ↑ Indian actress Zohra Sehgal has died. In: The standard of July 11, 2014 (accessed July 11, 2014).
personal data
SURNAME Segal, Zohra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sehgal, Zohra (alternative name); Zohra Begum Mumtaz-ullah Khan (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian dancer, stage and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Saharanpur , British India
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 2014
Place of death New Delhi , India