Father sold her daughter to a brothel for money, three generations spent their lives in humiliation, it was not easy for this actress to enter films, her name is…
The world of Bollywood looks very glamorous from the outside, but only those who are there know about the struggle inside. After a lot of hard work, effort and long wait, someone's luck shines in the film industry. Everyone doesn't need to have a godfather in the film industry. Many actors have made their mark even by coming from a non-film background. If you turn to any page of the history of cinema, you will find an outsider actor. In such a situation, today in Cinemagram, we are telling you about that actress who belongs to a courtesan family. Grandmother and great-grandmother were courtesans while mother was a superstar of Hindi cinema. In such a situation, let us tell you about that actress.
The actress who belongs to a family of courtesans is none other than Saira Banu. She may have been the top actress of the industry in the past, but if her mother had not come out of the streets of the courtesan and the brothel, history would have been different. It was not Saira Banu who first dreamt of becoming an actress, but her mother, Naseem Banu, and she made it come true. Not only did she
If we talk about the struggle to get out of the streets of the brothel, then this story is a bit long. Saira Banu's grandmother, great-grandmother and mother used to live in the brothel. Even her mother and grandmother had their own brothel in Delhi. This was not their profession, but Saira's great-grandmother came into this profession out of compulsion. The story begins with Jumman Bai, who was Saira Banu's great-grandmother. When she was seven years old, her father sold her to a brothel in Hasanpur.
The reason for this was that he hated girls. However, Jumman Bai did not want to live in that quagmire. She often tried to run away, so the brothel owner sent her to Delhi, after which she remained imprisoned in the streets of the brothel. Here, she gave birth to a daughter at the age of 18, who was the daughter of Ratan Singh, who worked in the brothel. That girl was named Shamshad.
Shamshad became Saira Banu's grandmother after her birth. Shamshad was very beautiful since childhood. It is said that when she was 12-13 years old, her mother and Saira Banu's great-grandmother Jumman Bai put her in a brothel. Here she became famous as Chamiya. Her beauty was such that even Nawabs and English officers from far-off places used to come to see her. Once Abdul Wahid Rehman, who was the nobleman of Hasanpur, argued with an English officer for Chamiya Bai.
Naseem Banu later became the mother of Saira Banu. But, before that, she had become a popular Bollywood actress. Naseem was fond of becoming an actress since childhood. Chamiya Bai also wanted to get out of this quagmire, so she came to Mumbai with Naseem. After coming to Mumbai, Naseem used to go to watch the shooting of films with her mother. Meanwhile, one day, Saurabh Modi's eyes fell on Naseem. At that time, she was studying in 11th grade.
He wanted to offer her a film. In such a situation, somehow mother Chamiya was convinced. She worked in many hit films, and later she was named Naseem in the industry itself. She has been a successful actress of Indian cinema. She was also given the tag of 'The First Queen of Indian Cinema'. Naseem was married to Ehsaan Ul Haq and Saira is his daughter, who herself is a well-known name in the industry and wife of late actor Dilip Kumar.
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