Sharmila Tagore Birthday

She was on born 8 December 1944.

Sharmila Tagore Parents

Sharmila was born in Kanpur, India, the daughter of Gitindranath Tagore, a general manager in the British India Corporation, by his wife Ira Tagore (née Barua).

While Tagore’s father belonged to a Bengali family, her mother came from an Assamese family, and both of them were distantly related to the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

Tagore was the eldest of three children and had two younger sisters.

Her middle sister was the first in the family to act in a film, and the only role she ever played was that of Mini, the child character (but a central character) in Tapan Sinha’s film Kabuliwala (1957).

Later in adulthood, she became an international bridge player. The other sister, Romila Sen, is the wife of Nikhil Sen, a corporate honcho who served as Chief Operating Officer of Britannia Industries for many years.

Sharmila Tagore Young

Tagore attended St. John’s Diocesan Girls’ Higher Secondary School and Loreto Convent, Asansol.

She made her film debut when she was a 13-year-old schoolgirl, after which her studies lost priority, and she never finished school.

Within a short while, her results in school became very bad, her attendance levels were very low. She came to be regarded as a bad influence on her classmates, and was faced with a choice of either doing films or studying further.

At that point, her father advised her to move ahead in life, commit herself to a film career and ‘give it her all’ in order to become successful.

She did as her father advised, and credits her parents for having supported her at every point in her life.

Sharmila Tagore Movies

Sharmila Tagore began her career as an actress in Satyajit Ray’s 1959 Bengali film Apur Sansar (The World of Apu), as the ill-fated bride of the title character.

She later appeared in Shakti Samanta’s Kashmir Ki Kali in 1964.

Later Samanta cast her in many more films, including An Evening in Paris (1967), in which she became the first Indian actress to appear in a bikini, which established Sharmila Tagore as somewhat of a sex symbol in Hindi films.

She also posed in a bikini for the glossy Filmfare magazine in 1968.

Later Samanta teamed up Sharmila with Rajesh Khanna for movies such as Aradhana (1969) and Amar Prem (1972). Other directors paired them together in Safar (1970), Daag (1973), and Maalik (1972).

The pair of Khanna-Sharmila gave 7 box office hits – Aradhana, Safar, Amar Prem, Chhoti Bahu, Daag, “Raja Rani” and Avishkaar.

Soon she starred in Gulzar’s 1975 film, Mausam and won the National Film Award for Best Actress.

Later Sharmila also played a supporting role in Mira Nair’s 1991 film Mississippi Masala. She was the highest paid Bollywood actress from 1970 to 1976 along with Mumtaz.

Sharmila Tagore Images

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Sharmila Tagore Husband

She married Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, the Nawab of Pataudi and former captain of the Indian cricket team, in a Nikah ceremony held on 27 December 1969.

Later she converted to Islam upon marriage and changed her name to Begum Ayesha Sultana Khan. Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi died, at age 70, on 22 September 2011.

Sharmila Tagore Son

They had three children: Saif Ali Khan (b. 1970), a Bollywood actor, Saba Ali Khan (b. 1976), a jewellery designer, and Soha Ali Khan(b. 1978), a Bollywood actress and TV personality.

Saif Ali Khan is an Indian film actor and producer. The son of actress Sharmila Tagore and cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi.

Khan is the recipient of several accolades, including a National Film Award and six Filmfare Awards, and received the Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award, in 2010.

Sharmila Tagore Daughter

Saba Ali Khan is 2nd Child of MAK Pataudi and Sharmila. Although she has always remained away from camera and focusing on her career. She is a fashion designer and design Diamond jewelry.

Soha Ali Khan Pataudi is an Indian film actress, known primarily for her work in the Hindi film industry. Although she has also acted in Bengali and English-language films

Sharmila Tagore Height

She is 157cm or (5’2”) tall.

Sharmila Tagore Grandfather

Sharmila Tagore is more closely related to Rabindranath Tagore through her mother. Her maternal grandmother Latika Barua (née Tagore) was the granddaughter of Rabindranath Tagore’s brother Dwijendranath Tagore.

Tagore’s maternal grandfather was Jnanadabhiram Barua, the first Principal of Earl Law College in Guwahati, son of the noted social worker Gunabhiram Barua.

As a member of the Tagore family, Sharmila Tagore is also a distant relative of the actress Devika Rani and the painter Abanindranath Tagore.

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