Meena Kumari

ACTRESS, COSTUME_DESIGNER, MUSIC_DEPARTMENT

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Born 1933 into a poor Parsee theatre family of Ali Bux and dancer Iqbal begum in Bombay, Maharashtra, India. Entered films to support family in difficult times. She was six when hired for Leatherface (1939) in 1939 by Vijay Bhatt and named Baby Meena. Later she became Meena Kumari when cast for Bhatt's Baiju Bawra (1952). She did mythological films with Homi Wadia and then comedies like Miss Mary (1957). She became personified as the archetypal good Hindu wife through many roles, long suffering and always true to the man. She excelled at tragedy and was often shown in a white sari carrying the film with her emotive acting. She was also thought to be the only actress who could sell a film on the strength of her name alone. Her major films are Daera (1953), Baiju Bawra (1952), 0046164, and of course her most well known film, Pakeezah (1972). She was married to Kamal Amrohi with whom she started making "Pakeezah". They separated in 1964. She was also an accompalished Urdu writer and had several poems published by Gulzar after her death. She battled alcoholism and loneliness and finally died, alone, in 1972. - IMDb Mini Biography By: <raju@ihug.co.nz>

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Prime Video has the most number of Meena Kumari’s flixes, followed by Hoopla compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Meena Kumari on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1970 to 1972. See the full graphs of the number of Meena Kumari movies released per year from 1970 till 1972.

Top Genres

Meena Kumari works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Romance Genre flixes. 50% of Meena Kumari movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Meena Kumari worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Meena Kumari has worked on is 6.7.

6.7 / 10

Meena Kumari's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Anandi Devi is an old widow living in her village she is bought to the city by her distant relative Arun. Anandi Devi realizes that Arun and his wife wanted to keep her as a maid following ...

7.5/10164 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Surjit Singh earns his living driving a truck, most of the time while consuming alcohol. One night he stops at Courtesan Chamelibai's, drinks, goes to bed with her, and gets up behind ...

7.2/10177 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Drama,Musical,Romance
Pakeezah (1972)

The story of a prostitute, with a pure heart (PAKEEZAH), and grand dreams...

7.1/10147 min

Available in 4 platform(s).