Part-I Parveen Babi biography

Parveen Babi, a Gujrati Muslim and the beautiful actress of the bollywood, was born on 4th april, 1949 in Junagarh, India. Her original name was Parveen Wali Mohammad Khan Babi. She was the only child of her parents and was born fourteen years after the marriage of her parents. She did her schooling in Aurangabad and graduation from St. Xavier's in Ahemdabad.




Parveen Babi entered in the film industry in the year 1973 with the film Charitra while she was studying in the college and was a leading and successful actress in 1970s. Parvven Babi was the first Indian actress who was featured on the Time Magazine's cover in 1975. She has given superhit films Deewar(1975), Amar Akbar Anthony(1977), Shaan(1980), Kalia(1981), Khuddar(1982) in which she was paired with the superstar Amitabh Bachchan.


Some of her hit films are:


Majboor(1974)

36 Ghante(1974)

Trinurti(1974)

Bullet(1976)

Chandni Sona(1977)

Kranti(1981)

Namak Halaal(1982)


Parveen Babi has a very good chemistry with Amitabh Bachchan but Zeenat Aman was a strong competitor for her and they were often compared due to their western outlook. She worked with almost all stars, directors at that time. Parveen was very famous among people but she was also brought in to many controversies.