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Mehtab (other)
Mehtab is both a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Mehtab (actress) (1913–1997), Indian actress * Mehtab Abbasi (born 1953), Pakistani politician * Mehtab Hossain (born 1985), Indian footballer and coach * Mehtab Kadınefendi (1830–c. 1888), wife Sultan Abdülmecid I * Mehtab Kaur (c. 1782–1813), Indian noblewoman * Mehtab Kaur of Patiala (1922–2017), Indian noblewoman * Mehtab Singh (other), multiple people Surname * Nusrit Mehtab, English police officer See also * Mehtab Bagh, charbagh complex in Agra, North India * Mahtab, an alternative transliteration {{given name, type=both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehtab (actress)
Mehtab (1913–1997) was an Indian actress of Hindi/Urdu films who worked from 1928 to 1969. She was born in Sachin, Gujarat, to a Muslim family and named Najma. Her father, Nawab Sidi Ibrahim Mohammad Yakut Khan III, was the Nawab of Sachin, near Surat in the state of Gujarat. Starting her career in the late 1920s with small roles in films like ''Second Wife'' (1928), ''Indira B. A.'' (1929) and ''Jayant'' (1929), she went on to do character roles before acting in the lead opposite Ashraf Khan in ''Veer Kunal'' (1932). After almost a decade of doing mainly action-oriented roles, she came into prominence with the Kidar Sharma-directed '' Chitralekha'' (1941). She married her early co-star Ashraf Khan with whom she had a son. They divorced later and she married Sohrab Modi in 1946. Modi cast her in the historical drama ''Jhansi Ki Rani'' (1953), which in spite of having spectacular scenes and lavish sets could not work well at the box office. She stopped acting in films following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |