Nargis, was an Indian film actress. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in the history of Hindi cinema, she made her screen debut as a child in Talash-E-Haq in 1935, but her acting career began in 1942 with Tamanna (1942). During a career that spanned from the 1940s to the 1960s,
She was born on 1st June 1929 in Calcutta. Her mother was Jaddanbai, a Hindustani classical music singer and one of the early pioneers of Indian cinema.
Nargis married actor Sunil Dutt who had saved her life from a fire on the sets of Mother India. They married on 11 March 1958 and had three children: Sanjay, Namrata, and Priya.Before marriage she was associated with Raj Kapoor,both of them worked together many hit classic movies.
Her most memorable performance was in Mehboob Khan's Oscar-nominated rural drama Mother India in 1957 for which she won the Filmfare Best Actress Award for her performance. Baburao Patel of the film magazine Filmindia (December 1957) described Mother India as "the greatest picture produced in India" and wrote that no other actress would have been able to perform the role as well as Nargis.
Nargis was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer,she died on 3rd May 1981 a day before the release of his son Sanjay Dutt's Debute film Rocky.
My Tribute to Nargis Dutt on this occasion
Song from Barsaat (1949)
Song from Andaz (1949)
Song from Babul 1950
Song from Awara (1951)
Song from Anhonee 1952
Song from Aah (1953)
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Song from Shri 420 (1955)
Song from Chori Chori 1956
Song from Mother India (1957)
Song from Adalat (1958)
