An incredible actress who started her career at the age of 7 despite her wish of going to school She was known as baby Meena and was born in 1932. She did many films as child star, but won stardom as a heroine by Baiju Bawra (1952). Her performance demonstrated to the industry that she had come to triumph over Bollywood by her unique style of acting.
When it came to show the strength, complexity, sorrows, destitution and societal pressures on an Indian woman, Meena Kumari was the foremost choice of every filmmaker. That is why she was inevitably called the “Tragedy Queen”. Her agony loaded voice with sobs, dialogue of hopeless distress and mesmerizing beauty with curls on her face made her the queen of the golden era of Indian cinema. She was also a good poetess and wrote many poems in her lonely anguished period of life, at the time of the divorce from Kamal Amrohi, she wrote:
Talaak to de rahe ho Nazar-e-kahar ke saath
Jawani bhi mere lauta do Mehar ke saath
Meena kumari became immortal after the release of her legendary movie “Pakeezah” in 1972. Here is her top movies countdown of all the times of Bollywood.
# 10 …Azaad
# 9 … Kohinoor
# 8 … Foot path
# 7 …Gazal
# 6… Kaajal
# 5 …Dil apna or pareet parai
# 4 … Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam
# 3 … Baiju Bawra
# 2 … Parineeta
# 1 …Pakeeza