Nargis

Nargis Dutt was born on June 1929. She was an Bollywood actress who was popularly regarded as one of the greatest actresses in the history of Hindi cinema. Nargis made her screen debut as a child in Talash-E-Haq in 1935, but her acting carer began in 1942 with Tamanna.

During a career that spanned from the 1940s to the 1960s, the actress appeared in several commercially successful as well as critically appreciated movies. One of her best-known roles was that of Radha in the Academy Award nominated Mother India released in (1957). For her brilliant performance in Mother India, she won the Best Actress trophies at the Filmfare Awards and the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. In 1958, Nargis married Sunil Dutt and left the film industry..

Nargis died in 1981 of pancreatic cancer. In 1982, the Nargis Dutt Memorial Cancer Foundation was established in her memory. The award for best feature film on national integration in the annual National Film Awards ceremony is called the Nargis Dutt Award in her honour.