Zubeida

Zubeida (* 1911 in Surat, † September 21, 1988 in Mumbai ) was an Indian actress.

Biography

Zubeida is the daughter of the Nawab of Sachin and his wife Fatma Begum. She made ​​her film debut as a 12 -year-old in the film company Kohinoor, Kanjibhai Rathods Gul -e- Bakavali (1924 ), one of India's most successful silent films. Her mother and her older sister Sultana - both worked as a film actor already for a few years - occurred in this and other films with her. In the same year she played the lead role in Prithvi Vallabh by Manilal Joshi, a director with whom she often collaborated in the 1920s - in 1925 alone, at least six films.

In 1927, she was with Sulochana and Master Vithal for Naval Gandhi Balidan, an ambitious adaptation of Tagore Bisarjan drama from 1890, before the camera. Besides Vithal she played in 1931 in India's first sound film, Alam Ara by Ardeshir Irani, in the title role. From 1933 to 1936 she worked closely with the director Nanubhai Vakil. Together they founded in 1934 the film company Mahalakshmi Cinetone whose most successful strip the Arabic tale Rashk -e- Laila (1934 ) was.

At the height of her success, she retired in the late 1930s from the film business and then entered only in a few individual films. She died at the age of 77 from kidney failure.

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