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Zeenat Aman

Category: Performing
Country: India

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Zeenat Aman is an Indian actress and former beauty queen. She was born on November 19, 1951 to a Muslim father, Amanullah Khan, and a Hindu mother, Scinda. Her father was one of the writers for the Bollywood film classics Mughal-e-Azam and Pakeezah.1

Zeenat’s movie career began with a part in O.P. Ralhan’s Hulchul in 1971. However it was Hare Rama Hare Krishna, with its hit song, Dum Maro Dum, that made her famous. She received a Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award and Bengal Film Journalists’ Association Award for Best Actress for this role. With her 1973 film Yaadon Ki Baaraat, her popularity grew particularly for the scene in which she carries a guitar and lip-syncs Asha Bhosle’s Churaliya Hai Tumne Jo Dil Ko. 

Zeenat is known for breaking the stereotypically shy image of Bollywood actresses with several controversial roles.2 In Roti Kapda Aur Makaan, Zeenat played the role of an ambitious girl who contemplates abortion to pursue her career; in Hare Ram Hare Krishna, a disenchanted hippie; a girl who falls for her mother’s former lover in Prem Shastra; and a woman having an affair on her crippled husband in Dhund. Zeenat has also acted in more conventional films such as Dostana, Chhaila Babu and Chori Mera Kaam.

Zeenat continued to make movies through the rest of the 1970s and into the 1980s including Ishq Ishq Ishq (1974), Kalabaaz (1977), Insaaf Ka Tarazu (1980) and Lawaaris (1981). Her last leading role was in the film Gawahi (1989). Zeenat has made several cameos in more recent Bollywood films such as Let’s Fall in Love (2006), Chaurahen (2007) and Ugly Aur Pagil (2008).

At the 2008 Zee Cine Awards for Bollywood films, Zeenat received a Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions to Indian cinema.3

[1] Zeenat Aman Biography.

[2] Interview: Zeenat Aman.

[3] Zeenat Aman Biography.

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A scene from Hare Ram Hare Krishna.
A scene from Yaadon ki Baraat.

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