Mehtab (actress), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Hindi film actress
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Place of Birth: Sachin, Gujarat, India
About Mehtab (actress)
- Mehtab (1918–1997) was an Indian actress of Hindi/Urdu films who worked from 1928 to 1969.
- She was born in Sachin, Gujarat, to a Muslim family and named Najma.
- Her father, Nawab Sidi Ibrahim Mohammad Yakut Khan III, was the Nawab of Sachin, near Surat in the state of Gujarat.
- Starting her career in the late 1920s with small roles in films like Second Wife (1928), Indira B.
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- (1929) and Jayant (1929), she went on to do character roles before acting in the lead opposite Ashraf Khan in Veer Kunal (1932).
- After almost a decade of doing mainly action-oriented roles, she came into prominence with the Kidar Sharma-directed Chitralekha (1941), due to her bathing scene in the film.She married her early co-star Ashraf Khan with whom she had a son.
- They divorced later and she married Sohrab Modi in 1946.
- Modi cast her in the historical drama Jhansi Ki Rani (1953), which in spite of having spectacular scenes and lavish sets was a disaster.
- She stopped acting in films following 1953 except to act in her last role as a character artist in Modi's Samay Bada Balwan (1969).
- She died in Mumbai on 10 April 1997.
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