Showing posts with label Nargis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nargis. Show all posts

Monday, July 20, 2026

Jaddanbai was Nargis's mother and Sanjay Dutt's maternal grandmother, know why there were three marriages each ?

 

  • Many actors in the Indian film industry earned a lot of name on the basis of their talent. Jaddanbai was also one of them. Although it is not easy to survive in the film world, but facing all the challenges, Jaddanbai not only set foot in the industry, but also played an important role in making her a big actress by launching her daughter.

Special relationship with Sanjay Dutt-Nargis

Jaddanbai was rich in versatility. Apart from being an actress, she was also a musician and film producer. Famous film star Sanjay Dutt and his mother Nargis also have a deep connection with Jaddanbai. Actually, she was Nargis's mother and the actor's grandmother. Jaddanbai was born in 1892. His mother Dalipbai was a courtesan.

Learned music from these giants

  • According to media reports, Dalipbai was kidnapped by a group of courtesans in her childhood, due to which she also had to do this work in Allahabad. Jaddanbai shifted to Kolkata with her family at a very young age. His music education started from here. He started it with thumri singer Moinuddin. After this, Jaddanbai also received music training from Barkat Ali, the younger brother of Bade Ghulam Ali Khan.

House built three times

Talking about Jaddanbai's personal life, she did three marriages. His first marriage was with Narottam Das. He had a son from this marriage, named Akhtar Hussain. Later on, his son also tried his hand at acting. After a few years Narottam left them and never returned. After this, Jaddanbai got married to harmonium player Irshad Mir. He also had a son from this marriage, whom he named Anwar Khan. However, this marriage also could not last. After this Mohan Babu of Lucknow entered Jaddanbai's life. After meeting Jaddanbai, he gave his heart to her and proposed marriage, but Jaddanbai put a condition for it. She told Mohanbabu that she would marry him only if he converted to Islam. Mohan Babu, who had been arrested in love, obeyed her and accepted Islam and married her. After conversion, he became Abdul Rashid.

Battle with cancer

From this marriage, he had a daughter, whom he named Fatima and Tejaswini. Later, this daughter of hers raised flags in the Hindi film industry by the name of Nargis. Jaddanbai worked in a total of five films in her film career. He also opened his own production house, under whose banner he made many films. Talaash-e-Haq was his last film, which gave him special recognition as a music composer. In the year 1940, he had to close his production house due to heavy losses. On April 8, 1949, he said goodbye to the world while fighting a battle with cancer.

Friday, June 26, 2026

Sunil Dutt jumped into the fire for Nargis on the sets of the film, then their love story started like this..

Sunil Dutt and Nargis Dutt have gained a lot of fame on the screen. Also, his love life was no less than the story of the film. No one had thought that the actress who played the role of Sunil's mother in the film 'Mother India' would one day become his wife.

  • Actually the love of both of them started from the set of this film. When Sunil saved Nargis' life by risking his life in an accident. It so happened that suddenly a fire broke out on the set of 'Mother India' and Nargis was trapped in it.

After which Sunil Dutt, without thinking anything, jumped into that fierce fire to save Nargis and took her out from there safely. However, while saving Nargis, Sunil himself burst into flames. Because of which he also got hurt.Seeing all this, Nargis's heart was bound to melt. What was it then that Nargis fell in love with Sunil Dutt? In such a situation, one day the actress reached Sunil's house to meet him and when Sunil came to drop her home, he proposed Nargis for marriage before the actress.

  • But there is a twist in this that then Nargis did not share her feeling in front of Sunil nor did she respond to him, but after a few days Sunil came to know from his sister that Nargis has said yes to marriage. . After which, on March 11, 1958, Sunil Dutt and Nargis got tied in a relationship of seven births.

Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Nargis On Meena Kumari Death: On Meena Kumari's death, Nargis said 'Congratulations on death..., told how broken the actress was'

 

Happy death Meena...

Meena Kumari died on 31 March 1972. After her death, Nargis Dutt, who was very close to the actress and Meena Kumari, wrote a letter to her, in which she wrote, "Meena, happy death!" Nargis' letter was published in an Urdu magazine. Nargis wrote in her letter, 'Congratulations on your death' I have never said this before. Meena, today your baji (elder sister) congratulates you on your death and says that you should never step into this world again. This place is not for people like you.

Used to take care of Sanjay Dutt

  • In her column, she recalled how her friendship with Meena Kumar began, “During the shooting of Main Chup Rahungi, my husband (Sunil Dutt) called me on the sets with the kids. There Meena and I became very good friends. When I went for dinner with Dutt Sahab, Meena took care of Sanjay and Namrata on her own, changed their clothes and made their milk.

Kamal's secretary raised his hand on Meena

  • Nargis revealed that one night while in Madras for a film shoot, she saw Meena gasping for breath in the hotel garden and when she enquired, Meena said she was fine, it could just be tobacco. Is. Nargis did not fully believe this and when she heard the sounds of fighting from her room, her doubt turned into belief. Then Nargis said to Kamal Amrohi's secretary Bakar, "Do you want to kill Meena? She has done a lot of work for you, how long will she feed you? ' He (Bakar) said, when the time is right, we will give him rest." They returned to Bombay, and Nargis said they had not met for a long time. Later they came to know that Meena Kumari has left Kamal's house and started living in Mehmood's house.

Meena Kumari was badly broken

Meena had a fight with Bakar on the sets of 'Pinjre Ke Paanchhi', and the matter got so bad that she did not step into Kamal's house again. By this time, stories of Meena Kumari's drinking started coming to the fore. Alcohol was proving harmful for his health. He had jaundice. When Nargis visited her in the hospital, she asked, "Manju, you are free, but what is the use of such freedom if you are bent on killing yourself?" He replied, "Baji, my patience has a limit. How dare Kamal Sahab's secretary raise his hand on me? When I informed Kamal Sahab about the incident, I thought he would come running and shoot the goat." Instead she said, 'Come home, I will settle things there. What did he have to decide? Now I have decided that I will not go back to him.'

Meena Kumari was madly in love with Dharmendra..

  • After this, Dharmendra entered Meena Kumari's life and this gave her happiness for some time. Nargis wrote, 'If Meena has ever loved someone with all her heart, then it is Dharmendra. If Meena ever fell madly in love with anyone, it was Dharmendra. Nargis said it was the 'most beautiful' part of her life. Nargis wrote, however, due to a misunderstanding, he left her life and she was broken. Nargis wrote, 'Slowly she started moving towards death.