Sharmila Tagore

Sharmila Tagore (Bengali: শর্মিলা ঠাকুর Shormila Ṭhakur; 8 Dec 1946) is a Indian flick actress from Bengal. She has won several National Film Awards and Filmfare Awards for her performances.

Tagore began her career as an actress in the 1959 Satyajit Ray flick Apur Sansar (The World of Apu), as the ill-fated bride of the title character. As noted on the official website for Ray, \"She was meet a fourteen-year-old then, with no preceding performing experience. As the actuation began, Ray had to shout instructions to Sharmila during the takes. None of this, however, is echolike on the screen. Ray cast her in his next flick Devi too.\" [2] She appeared in a number of Ray films, ofttimes co-starring with Soumitra Chatterjee.

She established herself as a popular Sanskrit flick actress with Sakti Samanta's Kashmir Ki Kali in 1964. Samanta would cast her in many more impact films much as An Evening in Paris (1967), and teamed her up with Rajesh Khanna for movies much as Aradhana (1969) and Amar Prem (1972), where played her one of her memorable roles of Pushpa, the paramour in city of Kolkata, again oppositeness Rajesh Khanna, who himself gave his ofttimes quoted dialogue in the film, \"Pushpa I hate tears..\". Other directors paired them together in Daag (1973), Maalik (1972) and Safar (1970). She starred in Gulzar's 1975 film, Mausam, and she played a supporting role as heroine Sarita Choudary's mother in Mira Nair's 1991 flick Mississippi Masala.