This day Doodle, represented by visitor artist Parvati Pillai, celebrates famous Indian entertainer and artist Zohra Segal, one of the nation’s first female entertainers to really accomplish acknowledgment on the global stage.
Among Segal’s eminent early work was a function in the film “Neecha Nagar” (“Lowly City”), which was delivered on this day in 1946 at the Cannes Film Festival.
Broadly viewed as Indian film’s first worldwide basic achievement, “Neecha Nagar” won the celebration’s most elevated honor: the Palme d’Or prize.
Sahibzadi Zohra Begum Mumtaz-ullah Khan was conceived on April 27, 1912 in Saharanpur, British India. She went to an esteemed expressive dance school in Dresden, Germany in her mid 20s and later visited universally with the Indian move pioneer Uday Shankar.
After she got back to India, she changed to acting, joining the Indian People’s Theater Association in 1945.
Segal moved to London, England in 1962 and manufactured a global profile over the next decades with functions in British TV works of art like “Specialist Who” and the 1984 miniseries “The Jewel in the Crown.”
During the 1990s, she got back to India, where she kept following up on the stage and in Bollywood films.
In 2002, the time of her 90th birthday celebration, Segal showed up in her important function in the film “Twist it Like Beckham,” and kept on acting admirably into her 90s.
Throughout the long term, India has perceived Segal’s productive commitments with a portion of the country’s most elevated honors: the Padma Shri (1998), the Kalidas Samman (2001), and the Padma Vibhushan (2010).
