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Birth Name: Sharmila Tagore
She is better known as Kashmir Ki Kali. This gorgeous lady Sharmila Tagore was known as one of Bollywood's ten hottest actresses.
Date of Birth: 8 December, 1946
Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m)
Sharmila was born in a Hindu Bengali family in Hyderabad, India to Gitindranath Tagore. She attended St. John's Diocesan Girls' Higher Secondary School and Loreto Convent Asansol. She is the great-grandniece of noted poet Rabindranath Tagore.
Sharmila began her career as an actress in Satyajit Ray's 1959 Bengali film Apur Sansar .She appeared in a number of Ray films, often co-starring with Soumitra Chatterjee. She established herself as a popular Hindi film actress with Shakti Samanta's Kashmir Ki Kali in 1964. Samanta again cast her in many more hit films, notably An Evening in Paris (1967), the first appearance in a bikini of an Indian actress.
Wearing a bikini put her name in the Indian press as one of Bollywood's ten hottest actresses of all time. Later when Sharmila was the chairperson of the Central Board of Film Certification, she expressed concerns about the rise of the bikini in Indian films.
Sharmila was seen with Rajesh Khanna for movies such as Aradhana (1969) and Amar Prem (1972), Daag (1973), Maalik (1972) and Safar (1970). She starred in Gulzar's 1975 film, Mausam and won the National Film Award for Best Actress.
Her latest release is a Marathi film Samaantar by Amol Palekar. Her earlier releases were Vidhu Vinod Chopra's Eklavya: The Royal Guard, which brought together real life mother and son, Sharmila Tagore and Saif Ali Khan.
Sharmila married Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Nawab of Pataudi, in a Nikah ceremony held on 27 December 1969. She converted to Islam changed her name to Begum Ayesha Sultana after she got married
Sharmila has one son and two daughters. Her son is Bollywood actor, Saif Ali Khan, and the daughters are Saba and Soha. Daughter Soha has recently entered Bollywood too. Sharmila is the grandmother of two children, a girl Sara Ali Khan, and a boy Ibrahim Ali Khan. Her daughter-in-law is noted Bollywood actress, Amrita Singh. However, recently both Saif and Amrita have separated, with Sharmila's grandchildren remaining with their mother, Amrita, in India.
Movie: Aradhana
Movie: Viruddh
Movie: Viruddh
Movie: Sunny
Movie: Mausam
Movie: Safar
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