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A list of films produced by the Bollywood film industry based in Mumbai in 1969:

Highest grossing[link]

The top twenty six grossing films at the Indian Box Office in 1969:^[1]

1969[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Bollywood films of 1969 at the Internet Movie Database
• Indian Film Songs from the Year 1969 - A look back at 1969 with a focus on the Hindi film song
• Listen to songs from Bollywood films of 1969

Sharmila Tagore
Sharmila Tagore in 2009
Born	Sharmila Tagore (1946-12-08) December 8, 1946 (age 65) Hyderabad, Hyderabad State, British India
Other names	Ayesha Sultana Ayesha Sultana Khan Sharmila Tagore Khan Sharmila Khan Ayesha Khan
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1959–present
Religion	Islam {Converted}
Spouse	Mansoor Ali Khan (1969–22 September 2011, his death)
Children	Saif Ali Khan Saba Ali Khan Soha Ali Khan

Sharmila Tagore (born 8 December 1946) is an Indian film actress. She has won National Film Awards and Filmfare Awards for her performances. She has led the Indian Film Censor Board from October 2004 till March 2011. In December 2005 she was chosen as an UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.^[1]

Early life[link]

Sharmila was born in a Hindu Bengali family in Hyderabad State to Gitindranath Tagore who was then deputy general manager of the East India Company owner of Elgin Mills. Gitindranath was the son of Kanakendranath Tagore who is the son of noted painter Gaganendranath Tagore. She attended St. John's Diocesan Girls' Higher Secondary School and Loreto Convent, Asansol.^[2] She is the great-grand niece of noted poet Rabindranath Tagore. ^[3][4]

Career[link]

Sharmila 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 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 with Shammi Kapoor in 1964. Samanta again cast her in many more hit films, notably An Evening in Paris (1967), again with Shammi, the first appearance in a bikini of an Indian actress,^[5][6] (Sadhana had appeared in one-piece bathing suit in earlier films) which not only shocked conservative Indian audiences^[7][8] but also set off a wave of bikini-clad actresses carried forward by Parveen Babi (in Yeh Nazdeekiyan, 1982^[9]), Zeenat Aman (in Heera Panna, 1973; Qurbani, 1980^[9]) and Dimple Kapadia (in Bobby, 1973^[9]) but established Tagore's role as somewhat of a sex symbol in Bollywood.^[10][11][12] Wearing a bikini put her name in the Indian press as one of Bollywood's ten hottest actresses of all time and was a transgression of female identity through a reversal of the state of modesty, which functions as a signifier of femininity in Bombay films.^[13] But, when Tagore was the chairperson of the Central Board of Film Certification, she expressed concerns about the rise of the bikini in Indian films.^[14]

Samanta later teamed up Tagore with Rajesh Khanna for movies such as Aradhana (1969) and Amar Prem (1972). Other directors paired them together in Daag (1973), Maalik (1972) and Safar (1970). She starred in Gulzar's 1975 film, Mausam and won the National Film Award for Best Actress. She also played a supporting role as heroine Sarita Choudhury's mother in Mira Nair's 1991 film Mississippi Masala.

Her latest release is a Marathi film Samaantar by Amol Palekar. Her earlier releases were Vidhu Vinod Chopra's Eklavya: The Royal Guard, which brought together real-life mother and son, Sharmila Tagore and Saif Ali Khan. They shared screen space for the first time since Aashiq Awara (1993).

Personal life[link]

Tagore was born a Hindu in 1946, and that remained her faith until she married Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Nawab of Pataudi, a former captain of the Indian cricket team, in a ceremony held on 27 December 1969. At that point, Tagore converted to Islam. They had three children: Saif Ali Khan (b. 1970), Saba Ali Khan (b. 1976)^[15] and Soha Ali Khan (b. 1978). Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi died, at age 70, on 22 September 2011. Tagore remains a Muslim.^[16]

Awards[link]

• 1969 - Filmfare Best Actress Award — Aradhana
• 1970 - Nominated, Filmfare Best Actress Award — Safar
• 1976 - National Film Award for Best Actress — Mausam
• 1997 - Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2002 - Star Screen Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2004 - National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress — Abar Aranye
• 2004 - Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of France
• 2006 - Nominated, Filmfare Best Actress Award — Viruddh... Family Comes First
• 2007 - Lifetime Achievement National Award (Actress) — Journalist Association of India
• 2011 - Outstanding Achievement in Indian cinema — Floriana IIFA Awards, Toronto

Filmography[link]

Full list of Sharmila Tagore's film career is available at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0846616/

See also[link]

• List of Indian film actresses

References[link]

External links[link]

• Sharmila Tagore at the Internet Movie Database
• Biography from satyajitray.org
• Being Sharmila

Lata Mangeshkar
Mangeshkar in 2008
Background information
Born	(1929-09-28) September 28, 1929 (age 82) Indore, Central India Agency, British India
Genres	Film music (playback singing)
Occupations	Singer
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	1942–present

Lata Mangeshkar (born September 28, 1929) is a singer from India. She is one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India.^[1][2] Mangeshkar's career started in 1942 and has spanned over six and a half decades. She has recorded songs for over a thousand Hindi films and has sung songs in over thirty-six regional Indian languages and foreign languages, though primarily in Hindi. She is the elder sister of singer Asha Bhosle, Hridayanath Mangeshkar, Usha Mangeshkar and Meena Mangeshkar. She is the second vocalist to have ever been awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour.^[3]

Mangeshkar was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records from 1974 to 1991 for having made the most recordings in the world. The claim was that she had recorded approximately 25,000 solo, duet, and chorus-backed songs in 20 Indian languages between 1948 to 1974. Over the years, while several sources have supported this claim, others have raised concerns over its veracity, claiming that this number was highly exaggerated and that Mangeshkar's younger sister, Asha Bhosle, had more song recordings than she had.^[4][5] In 2011 Guinness officially acknowledged Bhosle as the most recorded artist in music history.^[6]