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13
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Actor
Naseem Banu
Acting
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Movies: 13Series: 0
TMDB ID: 1150594
IMDb ID: nm0052568
Known for: Acting
Born: July 4, 1916
Died: June 18, 2002
Age: 85
Place of birth: Delhi, British India
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1935 - 1963
Years active: 29
Wikidata: Q18379294
Biography
Naseem Banu (4 July 1916 – 18 June 2002) was an Indian actress. She was referred to as Naseem and known as "Beauty Queen" and the "first female superstar" of Indian Cinema. Starting her acting career in the mid-1930s she continued to act till mid-1950s. Her first film was Khoon Ka Khoon (Hamlet) (1935) with Sohrab Modi under whose Minerva Movietone banner she acted for several years. Her high-point came with Modi's Pukar (1939) in which she played the role of Empress Nur Jahan. According to composer Naushad she got the sobriquet Pari-Chehra (fairy face) Naseem through the publicity advertisements of her films. She was the mother of actress Saira Banu and mother-in-law to the actor Dilip Kumar. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Naseem Banu.
Holiday in Bombay
as Seema
1963 Movie
6.0
Nausherwan-E-Adil
as Malka-e-Iran Khazar
1957 Movie
Sheesh Mahal
as Ranjana Singh
1950 Movie
Anokhi Ada
as Kamini
1948 Movie
Begum
1945 Movie
Chal Chal Re Naujawan
as Sumitra
1944 Movie
Ujala
as Saroj
1942 Movie
Main Hari
as Ragini
1940 Movie
6.5
Pukar
as Malika Noor Jahan
1939 Movie
Talaq
as Roopa
1938 Movie
Meetha Zaher
1938 Movie
Khan Bahadur
1937 Movie
Khoon Ka Khoon
as Ophelia
1935 Movie