Zubeida

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Zubeida and Master Vithal in Alam Ara , 1931

Zubeida (born 1911 in Surat , † September 21, 1988 in Bombay ) was an Indian actress.

Life

Zubeida is the daughter of the Nawab of Sachin and his wife Fatma Begum . She made her film debut at the age of 12 with the Kohinoor film company in Kanjibhai Rathod's Gul-e-Bakavali (1924), one of the most successful Indian silent films . Her mother and older sister Sultana - both of whom have been film actors for a few years - appeared with her in this and other films. That same year she starred in Prithvi Vallabh of Manilal Joshi , a director, with whom she often worked in the 1920s - but in 1925 at least six films.

In 1927 she stood in front of the camera with Sulochana and Master Vithal for Naval Gandhis Balidan , an ambitious film adaptation of the Tagore drama Bisarjan from 1890. Alongside Vithal, she played the title role in India's first sound film, Alam Ara by Ardeshir Irani , in 1931 . From 1933 to 1936 she worked closely with the director Nanubhai Vakil . Together they founded the film company Mahalakshmi Cinetone in 1934, whose most successful film was the Arab fairy tale Rashk-e-Laila (1934).

At the height of her success, she withdrew from the film business towards the end of the 1930s and only appeared in a few films thereafter. She died of kidney failure at the age of 77.

Web links

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://www.google.de/search?q=Zubeida+actress+September+1988&btnG=Nach+B%C3%BCchern+suchen&tbm=bks&tbo=1&hl=de
  2. ↑ Films by Manilal Joshi with Zubeida in 1925: Kala Chor , Devadasi , Indrasabha , Desh Na Dushman , Khandani Khavis and Sati Simantini (according to: Rajadhyaksha, Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema, New Delhi 1994)
  3. ↑ http://www.google.de/search?q=Zubeida+actress+September+1988&btnG=Nach+B%C3%BCchern+suchen&tbm=bks&tbo=1&hl=de
personal data
SURNAME Zubeida
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zubeida Begum
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Surat
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1988
Place of death Bombay