Nirupa Roy

Nirupa Roy was an Indian actress who was known for portraying the role of the Indian mother stereotype. Nirupa Roy played the heroine and the hero's mother in late 70s and 80s. Nirupa's acting career spanned more than 50 years and the lady acted in more than 250 movies.

In 1946 Nirupa Roy made her debut in acting with the Gujarati film Ranakdevi. The same year she acted in her first Hindi film Amar Raj. Among her popular films was Do Bigha Zameen (1953). In the 1940s and 1950s Nirupa Roy played mythological characters.

She acted with co-stars like Trilok Kapoor, Bharat Bhushan, Balraj Sahni and Ashok Kumar. In the 1970s, Nirupa Roy's roles as mother to the characters played by Big B made her name synonymous to the impoverished suffering mother.

Nirupa Roy in 1955 won the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award, for Munimji. In 1961 she got the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award, for Chhaya.
In 1961, the actress was awarded the BFJA Best Actress in Supporting Role, again for Chhaya.

Nirupa also won the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award, in 1964 for Shehnaai and was awarded the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003. In Mumbai on 13 October 2004 at the age of 73, she died after having a cardiac attack.