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Mehtab is a Actor Indian born on 28 april 1918
Mehtab (1918-1997) was a popular Indian actress of Hindi/Urdu films who worked from 1928-1969. She was born in Sachin, Gujarat, to a Muslim family and named Najma. Her father, Sedee Abraham Khan, was the Nawab of Sachin, near Surat in the state of Gujarat. Starting her career in the late 1920s with small roles in films like Second Wife (1928), Indira B. A. (1929), and Jayant (1929) she went on to do character roles before acting in the lead opposite Ashraf Khan in Veer Kunal (1932). After almost a decade of doing mainly action-oriented roles, she came into prominence with the Kidar Sharma directed Chitralekha (1941) due to her bathing scene in the film.
She married her early co-star Ashraf Khan with whom she had a son. They divorced later and she married Sohrab Modi in 1946. Modi cast her in the historical drama Jhansi Ki Rani (1953), which in spite of having spectacular scenes and lavish sets was a disaster. She stopped acting in films following 1953 except to act in her last role as a character artist in Modi's Samay Bada Balwan (1969). She died in Mumbai on 10 April 1997.
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She married her early co-star Ashraf Khan with whom she had a son. They divorced later and she married Sohrab Modi in 1946. Modi cast her in the historical drama Jhansi Ki Rani (1953), which in spite of having spectacular scenes and lavish sets was a disaster. She stopped acting in films following 1953 except to act in her last role as a character artist in Modi's Samay Bada Balwan (1969). She died in Mumbai on 10 April 1997.
Biography
Mehtab a Muslim, married Sohrab Modi, a Parsi, on 28 April 1946, her birthday. According to Mehtab, the marriage was not approved of by Modi's family. This was Mehtab's second marriage and she had an eight-year-old son Ismail, from the previous marriage to her first co-star Ashraf Khan. Her condition for marrying Modi was that her son, Ismail, stay with them. Modi talked the situation over with her ex-husband, regarding Ismail, who then lived with Mehtab and Modi following their marriage. Modi was twenty years older at 46 years and had just finished his relationship with Naseem Banu. Mehtab and Modi had one child together called Mehli who they brought up as a Parsi. Sohrab Modi died on 28 January 1984, at the age of 85 years. Mehtab died on 10 April 1997 in Mumbai, Maharashtra and was buried at the Bada Qabrastan, Marine Lines, Mumbai.Usually with
Filmography of Mehtab (14 films)
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Samay Bada Balwan (1968)
, 2h27Directed by Sohrab Merwanji Modi
Actors Mehtab, Aruna Irani
Roles Damyanti, Uttam's wife
Uttam (Sohrab Modi) is a rich cotton merchant who lives in a mansion with his wife Damyanti (Mehtab). Uttam's younger brother Ram (Sailesh Kumar), who is engaged to Seth Dhanichand’s (Wasti) elder daughter Gauri (Shahida), also lives with them. Damyanti's opportunistic brother, Dwarkadas (K. N. Singh) is in partnership with Uttam. Uttam loses his merchandise in a fire and becomes financially destitute, though continuing to live in the big mansion. Ram's engagement is called off by Dhanichand. Dwarkadas breaks off his partnership with Uttam and gets his son engaged to Dhanichand's younger daughter. Uttam attends the engagement ceremony but is humiliated and accused of stealing money. He is also beaten up on his way home by some thugs sent by Dwarkadas. The film the n follows Uttam's slow rise back again financially while Dhanichand and Dwarkadas now face poverty.
Jhansi Ki Rani (1953)
, 2h28Directed by Sohrab Merwanji Modi
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Sohrab Merwanji Modi, Mehtab, Sapru, Srinath
Roles Rani Laxmibai / Manu
Rating68%
Rajguru (Sohrab Modi) decides that Jhansi should get its proper recognition in history. He comes across a young girl Manu (the young Rani Lakshmibai) played by Baby Shikha. Her father has been hit by a carriage driven by an English driver. She gathers a few children to confront the driver. This and her confrontation with an elephant impresses the Rajguru who takes her in hand, shaping her into becoming a determined leader. He arranges for her, at the age of nine, to marry the much-older ruler of Jhansi, Gangadhar Rao (Mubarak), who is about fifty years, and become Queen.
Jhansi Ki Rani (1953)
, 2h28Directed by Sohrab Merwanji Modi
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films based on mythology, Films about religion
Actors Mahipal Singh, Shobhna Shilotri Samarth, Mehtab
Roles Rani Laxmibai / Manu
The Asura King Hiranyakashipu, having been granted the boon of immortality by Brahma, projects himself as Supreme Being, even beyond Vishnu, whom he wants to avenge for killing his brother Hirnayaksha. After years of penance Brahma grants Hiranyakashipu his boon where he asks not to be killed by man or animal, on earth or space, inside the house or outside, and neither at dawn or at night. In his arrogance he aims for filicide when his son Prahlada rejects him as the supreme power, worshipping only Vishnu as the true God. He makes several attempts at killing Prahlad, one of them by burning him on the pyre. Prahlad is inadvertently saved when Holika's, (sister of Hiranyakashipu) fire-proof veil lands on him and Holika gets burnt instead. Hiranyakashipu is further angered when Prahlad, on being asked if Vishnu exists in the pillar of the palace too, answers He is everywhere. Hiranyakashipu smashes the pillar and a half man half lion form appears. It is Narsimha (Vishnu’s Avatar). The enraged Narsimha stands on the threshold and places the King on his thighs. It is twilight time indicating neither day nor night making Hiranyakashipu no longer invincible. With his talons he rips Hiranyakashipu’s abdomen apart, thereby killing him. Before leaving he installs Prahlad as the new King.
Ek Din Ka Sultan (1945)
, 2h27Directed by Sohrab Merwanji Modi
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Mehtab, Sohrab Merwanji Modi, Ghulam Mohammed
Roles Kausar Dilshad
Sanjog (1943)
Directed by Abdur Rashid Kardar
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Mehtab, Noor Mohammed Charlie
Roles Bina Kumari
Rating78%
Kanoon (1942)
Directed by Abdur Rashid Kardar
Actors Mehtab, Gajanan Jagirdar, Nirmala Devi
Ashok and Usha are friends in college who fall in love with each other. They have a common issue which unites them; the social evil of young girls forcibly married off to older men. Ashok has strong reasons as he is ashamed of his father who is married a girl younger than Ashok. Lala Dinanath, Usha's father is heavily in debt to Seth Hirachand. Hirachand's son, Ramesh, who studies in college with Usha has fallen in love with her. He does not know that his father intends marrying Usha in lieu of the debt her father owes Hirachand. His attraction for Usha causes a source of anguish for Hansa, the family Munim's (accountant) daughter, and hence are in service to Hirachand. Hansa and Ramesh have been childhood friends with a vague understanding of marriage between them.
Ek Hi Bhool (1940)
, 2h35Directed by Vijay Bhatt
Genres Horror
Actors Paidi Jairaj, Mehtab, Meena Kumari
Leatherface (1939)
, 2h46Directed by Vijay Bhatt
Genres Action, Adventure
Actors Paidi Jairaj, Meena Kumari, Mehtab
Rating64%
A state chieftain (M. Zahur) rules over his people in a despotic manner. Samar (P. Jairaj) becomes the hero-bandit to fight the chief. He dons a leather mask, and along with the help of his dog Tiger and horse Bahadur he ventures out to set things right. He also has the help of a group of wayfarers, and Dulari (Shirin), the inn-keeper. Samar falls in love with the Chieftain's sister Ila (Mehtab). Following several action scenes, Samar is able to rid the state of its tyrannical ruler and marry Ila.