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Meena Kumari
Indian actress and poet (1933–1972)
For other people named Meena Kumari, see Meena Kumari (disambiguation).
Meena Kumari | |
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Meena Kumari in Pakeezah | |
| Born | Mahjabeen Bano (1933-08-01)1 August 1933 Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India (present-day Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) |
| Died | 31 March 1972(1972-03-31) (aged 38) Bombay, Maharashtra, India |
| Burial place | Rahmatabad cemetery, Mumbai |
| Other names | Tragedy Queen |
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| Years active | 1939–1972 |
| Works | Full list |
| Spouse | Kamal Amrohi (m. 1952; sep. 1964) |
| Relatives | See Ali-Amrohi family |
| Awards | See list |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | |
| Writing career | |
| Pen name | Naaz |
Musical artist | |
Meena Kumari[1] (born Mahjabeen Bano; 1 August 1933[2] – 31 March 1972) was an Indian actress and poet, who worked in Hindi films. Popularly known as The Tragedy Queen,[3] she is regarded among the finest and greatest actresses in the history of Indian cinema.[4] In a career spanning 33 years, from child actress to adult, Kumari starred in over 90 films.[5]
Kumari won four Filmfare Awards i
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Published by HarperCollins India, 2013, 252 pages.
For many years, I’ve enjoyed the writing of Vinod Mehta, the editor of the Indian newsmagazine Outlook, so I was looking forward to reading his biography of Meena Kumari, an iconic Indian actress who died in 1972. But the biography was written on a commission soon after her death, when Mehta was a young man. And it is very much a young man’s book—cocky and self-assured—which is a pity. If he had written it in the last ten years, it would have been a more thoughtful work.
In an introduction to this recent edition, Mehta admits to this. He had been influenced by Norman Mailer’s style of writing, which was to insert the author into the text. You can never really forget that Mehta is writing this book, which means you cannot really lose yourself in it. I wish he had edited it and ironed out some of the annoying tics, such as the constant references to “my heroine”.
However, the story itself has enough weight to carry it through. For those unfamiliar with Meena Kumari, she was a well-known actress who worked in Hindi films from 1939 (as a child actress) until her death. She was known for playing tragic roles, including in one of my favourite films, Pakeezah, to which Mehta devotes an entire chapter. She was prolifi