Veena

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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 like 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 films like 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). - IMDb Mini Biography By: Wikipedia

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Streaming Availability

Hoopla has the most number of Veena’s flixes, followed by YouTube compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Veena on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1970 to 1981. See the full graphs of the number of Veena movies released per year from 1970 till 1981.

Top Genres

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

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Veena has worked on is 6.4.

6.4 / 10

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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).

Shyama is an orphaned young woman who lives with her aunt, uncle and several cousins, two of who are girls of marriageable age. Her passion is dancing, which is frowned upon by her uncle ...

5.5/10114 min

Available in 1 platform(s).