Begum Para (1926–2008) was a film actress who was active mostly in the 1940s and 1950s. After 50 years, she returned to films with her last role in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Saawariya (2007) as Sonam Kapoor’s grandmother. She married actor Nasir Khan, the younger brother of Dilip Kumar. They had three children, including the actor Ayub Khan.
She married actor Nasir Khan, the younger brother of Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar. They had three children, including the actor Ayub Khan. Begum Para’s father Mian Ehsan-ul-Haq of Jalandhar, was a judge who joined the princely state of Bikaner, now northern Rajasthan, where he became chief justice of its highest court. Her husband died in 1974. Following her husband’s death, she briefly migrated to Pakistan in 1975. Two years later, she relocated to India.
Madhubala Personal & Rare Photographs
These bold and sensuous photographs of glamor queen Begum Para were taken by photographer James Burke for Life Magazine.
