Bollywood’s first top Muslim actress! Debut made at the age of 6, changed name for films, married to star

Mumbai. Actress Nargis, who has worked in films like ‘Barsaat’, ‘Andaz’, ‘Awara’, ‘Sri 420’, ‘Chori-Chori’, ‘Aag’, is the death anniversary of actress Nargis with Raj Kapoor. He gave many hit films, but ‘Mother India’ changed the direction of his career and life. Her character played in ‘Mother India’ Radha is still alive in the minds of people. This film not only gave a new dimension to his career but also gave Humsafar! This film was very close to Nargis’s heart.

Nargis’s real name was Fatima Rashid. At the age of just 6, he stepped into the film world and worked in the film ‘Talate Haq’ released in 1935 as a child artist. In this film, director Chimanlal Luhar used to call him ‘Baby Nargis’. Actually ‘Nargis’ is the name of a flower. In English it is called daffodil. The specialty of this flower is that it keeps spreading its fragrance for a long time. As long as the actress remained like this name, she spread only the fragrance with her skill and beauty.

Nargis acted in more than 50 films in her career. But some of his films are such, which did not blur with time. People are still liking them to see them. One such film ‘Mother India’… This film was also very close to the heart of Nargis, because he had got his love from the set of this film, that is, there was love with Sunil Dutt.

Before the film set, Nargis met Sunil Dutt when he used to work in a radio station and she came there to interview. The second meeting was on the set of his film ‘Do Bigha’. Then Sunil Dutt was looking for work for himself. At that time she did not know her special. But the film ‘Mother India’, released in the year 1957, changed her luck. In fact, during the shooting, a heartbreaking accident occurred, in which Sunil Dutt saved his life by playing on his life and a new relationship started from here.

According to famous writer Kishwar Desai’s book ‘Darlingji: The True Love Story of Nargis and Sunil Dutt’, a real fire was set on the set to shoot a scene in the film ‘Mother India’. This fire occurs in a pile of straw, in which Nargis has to jump. Sunil Dutt goes to save him, who has become his son in the film. But suddenly the shoot turns into an accident, when the fire becomes uncontrollable and its flames start touching Nargis. Everyone starts retreating due to fear. But Sunil Dutt takes him out safely regardless of his life. During this time, he himself was also badly burnt. After this incident, Nargis’ attitude changed and he started seeing a true spouse in Sunil. On March 11, 1958, both of them got married.