Dedicated to kimbhut65(Shoban Sen who inspired me to do so). Begum Ayesha Sultana (Bengali: শর্মিলা ঠাকুর Romanization of Bengali; born Sharmila Tagore 8 December 1946) is an Indian film actress. She has won several National Film Awards and Filmfare Awards for her performances. She has led the Indian Film Censor Board. In December 2005 she was chosen as an UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. Sharmila Tagore was born in a Hindu Bengali family in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India to Gitindranath Tagore who was then Dy. General Manager of the British India Company owner of Elgin Mills. She attended St. John's Diocesan Girls' Higher Secondary School and Loreto Convent Asansol. Tagore began her career as an actress in the 1959 Satyajit Ray film Apur Sansar (The World of Apu), as the ill-fated bride of the title character. As noted on the official website for Ray, "She was just a fourteen-year-old then, with no previous acting experience. As the shooting began, Ray had to shout instructions to Sharmila during the takes. None of this, however, is reflected on the screen. Ray cast her in his next film Devi too. She appeared in a number of Ray films, often co-starring with Soumitra Chatterjee. She established herself as a popular Hindi film actress with Shakti Samanta's Kashmir Ki Kali in 1964. Samanta again cast her in many more hit films, notably An Evening in Paris (1967), the first appearance on a two-piece bikini of an Indian actress,(Sadhana had appeared in one-piece ...

• published: 08 Jan 2011
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