Nadira Babbar

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Nadira Babbar
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Babbar at Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal in May 2016
Born (1948-01-20) 20 January 1948 (age 76)
Bombay, Bombay State, India
Nationality Indian
Occupation(s)Theater actress, director
Years active1980–present
Spouse Raj Babbar
Children Arya Babbar
Juhi Babbar
Parent(s) Sajjad Zaheer (father)
Razia Sajjad Zaheer (mother)

Nadira Babbar (born 20 January 1948) is an Indian theatre actress, director and an actress in Hindi cinema, who is the recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2001. Nadira founded a Mumbai-based theatre group called Ekjute, a known name in Hindi theatre in 1981. [1]

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Nadira Babbar was seen playing mother to Aishwarya Rai in Gurinder Chadha's film Bride and Prejudice (2004), and M. F. Hussain's Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities (2004). She was also portrayed as the mother of Salman Khan in Sohail Khan's Jai Ho and as the mother of Raj Bansal (main villain) in Sunny Deol's 2016 movie named Ghayal Once Again.

Early life

The daughter of Sajjad Zaheer and Razia Sajjad Zaheer, she graduated from National School of Drama (NSD), New Delhi in 1971. [2] Nadira was a Gold Medallist at NSD and went to Germany on a scholarship, and later got a chance to work with renowned directors like Grotovisky and Peter Brooks. [3]

Career

She started her theatre group in Ekjute (Together) in 1981 in Delhi, [1] which came out with its first production Yahudi Ki Ladki in 1981, which revived the Parsi theatre style, and is considered one of its finest. [4] The group has also been performing the Bhavai-based musical, Jasma Odhan, written by Shanta Gandhi for several years now. [5] Nadira moved to Mumbai in 1988, and reestablished her theatre group.

Over the last 30 years, Ekjute has given Indian theatre over sixty plays including Sandhya Chhaya, Look Back in Anger, Ballabpur Ki Roop Katha, Baat Laat Ki Halaat Ki, Bharam Ke Bhoot, Shabash Anarkali and Begum Jaan; apart from directing plays written by herself: Dayashankar Ki Diary (1997), Sakku Bai (1999), Suman Aur Sana and Ji Jaisi Aapki Marzi. [6] [7] It has worked with actors like Raj Babbar, Satish Kaushik and Kirron Kher. [1]

In 1990, Ekjute started the 'Ekjute Young People's Theatre Group', which has given productions like Aao Picnic Challen and Azdak Ka Insaaf. [8] The groups celebrated 30 years of its foundation in 2011, with a week-long theatre festival, 30 Years Caravan 2011, at Prithvi Theatres, Mumbai which began on 14 April 2011. [1] [9] [10] She also appeared in Salman Khan-starrer Hindi movie Jai Ho (2014).

In 2016, she featured in Sunny Deol's Ghayal Once Again . [11]

Nadira Babbar was recently seen in the web series, The Married Woman, directed by Sahir Raza. The star cast also includes Ridhi Dogra and Monica Dogra. [12]

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  5. ↑ "Stagecraft". The Times of India. 10 July 2003.
  6. ↑ Mission to stage The Tribune, Chandigarh, 26 June 2005.
  7. ↑ "Magazine: Mumbai", The Hindu , 11 May 2003, archived from the original on 6 November 2012, retrieved 12 July 2010, Snippet: ... Prithvi hosts two performances of Nadeera Babbar's "Shabash Anarkali" ...
  8. ↑ Ekjute
  9. ↑ "Turning Thirty". Hindustan Times . Mumbai. 14 April 2011. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013.
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