Veena

Veena

Acting 1924-07-04 Quetta, Baluchistan Agency, Pakistan

Veena (4 July 1926 – 14 November 2004), also known as Veena Kumari, real name Tajour Sultana, was an Indian actress. Veena was born as Tajour Sultana on 4 July 1926 in Quetta, Baluchistan, Pakistani. At some point of time, her family shifted to Lahore and she belonged to Lahore's Chuna Mandi.[1] She married actor-hero Al Nasir in 1947 and had two children. She started out playing heroine roles in pre-partition films. She made her debut with Garib and Gawandhi (1942) at around sixteen years of age. Garib was made in Urdu and Gawandhi was made in Punjabi and directed by Mehboob Khan. In Garib, she played the role of Lata and in Gawandhi she played heroine opposite Shyam, who played the hero. She became known for her roles in pre-partition Hindi and Urdu films. Her early years in films came with films such as Najma (1943), Phool (1945) and Humayun (1945). Her last film before the Partition of India was Rajputani (1946), in which she played a supporting role. She decided to remain in India after the partition, and she acted through the mid-to-late-1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s. She played roles in big productions such as Halaku (1956), Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi (1958), Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959), Taj Mahal (1963) (for which she received the Filmfare's Award for Best Supporting Actress), Do Raaste (1969) and Pakeezah (1972). She retired in 1983 after the release of Razia Sultan (1983) in which she played Empress Shah Turkhan. She died in Bombay in 2004 after 21 years of retirement when she was 78 years old after suffering from a protracted illness. She had appeared in over 70 feature films in a career spanning 41 years (1942 till 1983).

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1986 Purnima's mother
1983
1977 Queen Mother
1974 Raj's Mother
1974 Maharani
1972 Satidevi
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1972 Nawabjaan
1972
1969 Gurmukh Singh's wife
1969 Mrs. Gupta
1968 Leela S. Choudhary
1968
1968 Rajni's Mother
1967 Mrs. Hayat Baig
1964
1963 Empress Nur Jahan
1959 Veena Varma / Veena Sinha
1959 Yashoda
1958 Kamini
1958
1958 Geeta
1956 Maharani
1951 Meera
1950 Rani
1950
1945 Rajkumari (as Veena Kumari)
1945
1943 Najma
1942 Lata
1941 Geeta
1941 Rama