indian celebrities: Zubeida

Thursday 5 July 2012

Zubeida

Zubeida Begum Dhanrajgir (Urdu: زبیدہ ) (1988–1911) was an Indian film actress. She acted in the first Indian talkie movie Alam Ara (1931).^[1] Her credits include early hits Devdas (1937), and Sagar Movietone's first talkie,Meri Jaan.Zubeida was one of Indian cinema's earliest superstars and among the few girls who entered films at a time when it was not considered an appropriate profession for girls from respectable families, let alone Royalty. Born in Surat, Zubeida was a stunningly beautiful princess, the daughter of the Nawab of Sachin and Fatima Begum. Zubeida and her two sisters, Sultana and Shehzadi, egged on by their actress mother who was to become India's first woman director, entered films at a very young age.