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Zubeida
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Zubeida Begum Dhanrajgir (1911 – 21 September 1988) was an Indian actress. Early in her career, she starred in a number of silent films, which were followed by a breakthrough in the first Indian talkie Alam Ara (1931). Her other notable works include Sagar Movietone's Meri Jaan (1931) and Devdas (1937).
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Film & TV
Surat, Gujarat, India
Zubeida was a pioneering Indian actress who became a star of the silent film era and is best known for being the leading lady in Alam Ara (1931), the first Indian talkie film. Born in 1911 in Surat, Zubeida was the daughter of Nawab Sidi Ibrahim Muhammad Yakut Khan III and Fatima Begum, an actress who would later become one of India's first female film directors. Zubeida's two sisters, Sultana…
Known for
- Heer Ranjha — Heer's mother1970
- Devdas1936
- Gul Sanobar1934
- Rashk-e-Laila — Laila1934
- Fairy of Punjab — Sassi1933
- Zarina1932
- Alam Ara — Alam Ara1931
- Shahi Chor1929
- Heer Ranjha — Heer1928
- Bulbul-e-Paristan1926
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- 160
- Total plays
- 1,534
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Key facts
- Person.image
- Zubeida dans Seva Sadan (1934) (color publicity still).jpg
- Person.caption
- Zubeida in 1934
- Person.birth_name
- Zubeida Begum
- Person.birth_place
- Surat, Bombay Presidency, British India
- Person.death_place
- Bombay, Maharashtra, India
- Person.occupation
- Actress
- Person.years_active
- 1922–1953
- Person.spouse
- Maharaj Narsingir Dhanrajgir Gyan Bahadur
- Person.children
- 2
- Person.parents
- Fatma Begum (mother) Sidi Ibrahim Muhammad Yakut Khan III (father)
- Person.relatives
- Sultana (sister)Rhea Pillai (granddaughter)Jamila Razzaq (niece)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Dominion of India
- Place of birth
- Surat
- Place of death
- Mumbai
- Mother
- Fatma Begum
- Sibling
- Sultana
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- Hindi
- Religion
- Islam
- Image
- Zubeida dans Seva Sadan (1934) (color publicity still).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1911-01-01
- date of death
- 1988-09-21
- Commons category
- Zubeida
- cause of death
- kidney failure
- start of work period
- 1922-00-00
- name in native language
- ज़ुबैदा
- end of work period
- 1988-00-00
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- Death
- Filmography
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Zubeida Begum Dhanrajgir (1911 – 21 September 1988) was an Indian actress. Early in her career, she starred in a number of silent films, which were followed by a breakthrough in the first Indian talkie Alam Ara (1931). Her other notable works include Sagar Movietone's Meri Jaan (1931) and Devdas (1937).
==Early life== Born in 1911 in Surat city of Gujarat in western India, Zubeida was the daughter of Nawab Sidi Ibrahim Muhammad Yakut Khan III of Sachin State and Fatma Begum. She had two sisters, Sultana and Shehzadi, both actresses. She was among the few girls who entered films as a teenager during a time when it was not considered a honourable profession for girls from respectable families.
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