Born this day in 1932, Meena
Kumari, the great Bollywood actress of
yore , due to penury and poverty was
forced to act as a child artiste at the
age of six. This also happened as a quirk of fate , as plain looking Mahazabeen
Bano, as she was named then, was not considered
even worthy of entering the film line,
by her father .It was her mother who took her to some producer/ director As luck would have it , her talent was
spotted and her career took off.She
acted in many well known films , like
Miss Mary, Sahib Biwi aur Ghulam , Azaad , Kohinoor, Dil Apna aur Preet Parayi &
many others , and last but not the
least, Pakeezah which proved her swan
song but also immortalized her.All the songs of the film became hits and were
played all over .Perhaps this was the best that Kamal Amrohi , her separated husband and also Director of the film could have done for her. Frustration and loneliness proved too much for
her and she took to drinking .It is no
secret that while shooting for Pakeezah,
Meena Kumari , due to illness, was not
able to speak and one Sadhana Khote
dubbed for her. This hastened her end as she died in March
1973 at the relatively young age of
forty. If Dilip Kumar is the Tragedy King
of Hindi cinema, the crown for Tragedy Queen would certainly go to Meena
Kumari .
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