From Kiara Advani, Disha Patani to Deepika Padukone, plenty of actresses have set the web ablaze with their daring photoshoots. Nevertheless, have you learnt the primary Indian actress to do a daring photoshoot was within the 50s? 

Effectively sure, the actress who gave the primary ever daring photoshoot began working on the age of 17. She was referred to as the glamour woman of Bollywood and has a particular connection to Dilip Kumar and Amrita Singh. She is none apart from Begum Para. 

Born in Jhelum in British India (present-day Pakistan), Begum Para was introduced up in Bikaner. The actress had an elder brother Masrurul Haq, who had gone off to Bombay within the late Nineteen Thirties to grow to be an actor. There he met and fell in love with the Bengali actress Protima Dasgupta, and married her. After this, each time Begum Para used to go to her brother and sister-in-law, she used to tag alongside along with her sister on film units and on many events get-togethers. Individuals would get fairly impressed along with her seems and supply her a whole lot of roles. 

Begum Para then made her debut within the movie Chand, from Prabhat Studios in Poona. The movie turned out to be an enormous success and began getting paid about Rs. 1500 a month. Quickly after this Begum Para’s sister-in-law made a film named Chhamia based mostly on the novel Pygmalion, which once more was an enormous success and Para signed a whole lot of movies after this. 

After starring in a number of movies like Sohni Mahiwal, Zanjeer with Ishwarlal and Dikshit, Neel Kamal with Raj Kapoor; Mehendi with Nargis; Suhaag Raat with Bharat Bhushan and Geeta Bali and Jhalka amongst others, in 1951, Begum Para did a daring photoshoot for Life journal which created a stir within the business and made her widespread as Bollywood’s glamour woman, Bombshell and so forth. She was additionally supplied to play Nigar Sultana in Mughal-e-Azam however she refused to do it as a result of she thought-about it towards her picture.

Begum Para’s final function was within the film Kar Bhala in 1956, after which she stop movies. The actress was married to Dilip Kumar’s trouble Nasir Khan and had three youngsters, Lubna, Nadir, and actor Ayub Khan with him. Amrita Singh can also be related to Begum Para as she is her grand niece. Amrita Singh is the daughter of Ruksana Sultana, who’s the sister of Begum Para. Nevertheless, after her husband’s demise, she moved to Pakistan in 1975 to be along with her household. After a break of fifty years, Begum Para made her comeback on the large display with Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Saawariyaa, which didn’t impress the viewers and tanked on the field workplace. In 2008, the actress died in her sleep and breathed her final on the age of 82. 

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