Naseem Banu

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Naseem Banu (born Roshan Ara Begum; 1 January 1916 – 18 June 2002) was an Indian actress. Starting her acting career in the mid-1930s, she continued to act till the mid-1950s. Her first film was Khoon Ka Khoon (Hamlet) (1935) with Sohrab Modi under whose Minerva Movietone banner she acted for several years. The high point of her acting career came with Modi's Pukar (1939) in which she played the role of Empress Nur Jahan. According to composer Naushad she got the sobriquet Pari-Chehra (fairy face) Naseem through the publicity advertisements of her films. She was the mother of actress Saira Banu and mother-in-law to the actor Dilip Kumar.

Read on Wikipedia · Image Film India Magazine, February 1942, Public domain