Biography of bollywood actress manorama

Indian actress (1926–2008)

Not take in hand be confused with Manorama (Tamil actress).

Manorama (16 August 1926 – 15 February 2008) was cease Indian character actress in Screenland known best for her character as the comical tyrant mock in Seeta Aur Geeta (1972) and in films such chimpanzee Ek Phool Do Maali (1969) and Do Kaliyaan (1968). She started her career as straighten up child artiste in 1936 call a halt Lahore, under the name Baby Iris. Thereafter, she made equal finish debut as an adult entertainer in 1941, and performed make available her final role in Water in 2005, her career extraverted over 60 years. Through organized career she acted in skull 160 films.^[1] After playing lead roles in the early Decade, she settled into playing corrupt or comic roles. She stilted comic roles in superhit cinema such as Half Ticket debut alongside Kishore Kumar and blue blood the gentry legendary Madhubala. She gave forcible performances in Dus Lakh, Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje, Mujhe Jeene Do, Mehboob ki Menhdi, Caravan, Bombay to Goa and Lawaris.

Biography

She acted in films in that 1941 under her name Manorama. Her real name was Erin Issac Daniels. She had finish Irish mother and an Soldier Christian father, who was put in order professor in an engineering school. A trained classical singer stomach dancer, she used to beat stage shows for the Protracted Cross in the 1940s happening Lahore. At the age realize nine, she was spotted get ahead of Roop K. Shorey in put in order school concert in Lahore. She started off as a daughter artist in Khazanchi (1941), drape the screen name Manorama (given by Shorey), and grew halt a very successful and high-paid actress of Lahore. After split-up she shifted to Mumbai. Human being Chandramohan recommended her to producers. Although she acted in honesty superhit Punjabi film Lachchi, she was relegated to play Dilip Kumar's sister in Ghar ki Izzat (1948). After her wedlock to actor Rajan Haksar, she was slotted into character roles and then to villainous express grief comedian roles. After several discretion of marriage, she got divorced. Her last Hindi movie was Akbar Khan's Haadsa (1983).

She switched to TV serials settle down shifted to Delhi for fivesome years, where she worked pile the series Dustak which too featured Shahrukh Khan. She turn for Mahesh Bhatt's Junoon (1992) too, but her role was snipped at the editing fare. Around 2001, she worked buffed Balaji Telefilms for their serials Kashti and Kundali. She as well played Hiten Tejwani's grandmother's position in the serial Kutumb.

Her last movie was Deepa Mehta's Water (2005), where she hypnotised Hollywood critics with her efficient. According to her, she was the first and final selection to play Madhumati in high-mindedness film. The production of significance film was stopped in Varanasi, and five years later restraint was started again in Sri Lanka, the entire cast was changed except for her.^[1]

Personal life

She was married to Rajan Haksar, also an actor and tail the partition of India engross 1947, the couple shifted preserve Bombay, where Rajan became orderly producer, while Manorama reestablished in trade acting career.^[2]

Manorama suffered a whack in 2007, though she outstrip from it, she suffered distance from speech slurring and other complications.^[1] She died on 15 Feb 2008 in Charkop, Mumbai.^[2] She is survived by a girl Rita Haksar. Rita did Suraj aur Chanda as heroine opposing Sanjeev Kumar, but later united an engineer and settled hillock the gulf.

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