Google celebrates Nargis Dutt's 86th birth anniversary with Doodle
Nargis Dutt, born on 1st June of 1929 as Fatima Rashid but well known by her screen name, Nargis, was the legendary bollywood actress, who made her screen debut as a child in Talash-E-Haq in 1935, but her acting career began in 1942 with Tamanna.
During a career from the 1940s to the 1960s, Nargis appeared in numerous commercially successful as well as critically appreciated films, many of which featured her alongside actor and filmmaker Raj Kapoor.
One of her best-known roles was that of Radha in the Academy Award-nominated 'Mother India' in 1957, a performance that won her Best Actress trophy at the Filmfare Awards. In 1958. She would appear infrequently in films during the 1960s. Some of her films of this period include the drama 'Raat Aur Din' in 1967, for which she was given the inaugural National Film Award for Best Actress.
Nargis married her 'Mother India' co-star, actor Sunil Dutt, and left the film industry. Along with her husband, Nargis formed the Ajanta Arts Cultural Troupe, which involved several leading actors and singers of the time and held stage shows at border areas.
Nargis died in 1981 of pancreatic cancer, a few days before her son Sanjay Dutt made his debut in Hindi films. In 1982, the Nargis Dutt Memorial Cancer Foundation was established in her memory.
