BINA RAI ,BOLLYWOOD ACTRESS BORN
1930JULY 13 - 2009 DECEMBER 6
பிரபல பாலிவுட் நடிகை பீனா ராய் 1932ஜூலை 13 இல் பிறந்தார்
Bina Rai born as Krishna Sarin hailed from Lahore, Punjab, British India. In 1947, her family was uprooted from Lahore during the communal frenzy and was resettled in U.P. She went to school in Lahore and then college in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. Bina Rai lived in Kanpur until she moved out for acting. She had to convince her parents to allow her to act in films, she claimed that she went on a hunger strike to convince her disapproving parents to let her join films, and they finally relented.
Career[edit]
Bina Rai was a first year student of Arts in the Isabella Thoburn College of Lucknow in 1950[citation needed], when she came across an advertisement for a talent contest, she applied and received a call from the sponsors. Although she had been active in college dramatics, a film career was never within her field of vision. Nevertheless she went to Bombay, to participate in the contest where she won along with the 25,000 rupees in prize money[dubious – discuss] a leading role in Kishore Sahu's Kali Ghata (1951), which became her film debut, and also featured Kishore Sahu in the lead role.[2][3][4]
Bina Rai was a first year student of Arts in the Isabella Thoburn College of Lucknow in 1950[citation needed], when she came across an advertisement for a talent contest, she applied and received a call from the sponsors. Although she had been active in college dramatics, a film career was never within her field of vision. Nevertheless she went to Bombay, to participate in the contest where she won along with the 25,000 rupees in prize money[dubious – discuss] a leading role in Kishore Sahu's Kali Ghata (1951), which became her film debut, and also featured Kishore Sahu in the lead role.[2][3][4]
In the 1950s, she married actor Prem Nath, whose sister Krishna was married to the actor-director Raj Kapoor, was part of the Kapoor family.[5] They had acted together in some films, the first movie in which he was paired with Bina Rai was Aurat (1953), a Bollywood version of the tragic Biblical tale of Samson and Delilah (1949). The film was not a hit, but Bina Rai and Prem Nath fell in love with each other. They married and soon set up their own production unit, known as P.N. Films. Their first film from P.N. Films was Shagufa (1954) and they had pinned high hopes on it, but audiences rejected it. Neither Bina Rai's elfin charm nor Prem Nath's sensitive portrayal of the role of a doctor could save "Shagufa" from being a flop. And the films that followed "Shagufa" – Prisoner of Golconda, Samunder and Watan disappeared almost as soon as they hit the theatre screens. Thus the Prem Nath-Bina Rai pairing never clicked on the screen.[6]
However, her films with leading man Pradeep Kumar remain her best-remembered performances, where she played the title role in Anarkali (1953), Taj Mahal and Ghunghat for which she won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress[7]
In the 1970s, her son Prem Krishen became an actor and had one big hit Dulhan Wohi Jo Piya Man Bhaye (1977), but couldn't sustain the momentum so he turned producer, with the Cinevista banner, which went on produce TV series such as Kathasagar, Gul Gulshan Gulfam and Junoon. He launched his daughter Akanksha Malhotra as an actress in 2002 in his home production, claiming that she reminds him so much of his mother Bina Rai.
Bina Rai stopped acting in films many years ago, claiming that women of a certain age don't get good roles. She also talks fondly of her husband Prem Nath who had died on 3 November 1992. In 2002, their son, Kailash (Monty) Nath released a tribute album, to his father on the occasion of his 10th death anniversary and 76th birth anniversary, titled Amar Premnath, released by Saregama.[8][9] His grandson, Siddharth Malhotra directed the successful TV series on doctors, Sanjivani (2004).[3]
Bina Rai: The Anarkali We All Forgot
Coastweek -- Bina Rai aka “Beena Roy” was a leading actress primarily of the black and white era of Hindi cinema admired for her elfin charm and versatility.
After a long string of hits in 1977-1978, Vinod was Amitabh Bachchan’s direct competitor in the superstar sweepstakes.
Beautiful and talented but slightly introverted, Rai made fewer films than her contemporaries tended to.
“I believe in quality, not quantity,” she said, and many of the 30 or so films she made were critically acclaimed and commercially successful.
There was a regal aura about Rai, who is particularly remembered for her roles in classics such as Anarkali (1953), Ghunghat (1960) and Taj Mahal (1963).
Ghunghat, directed by Ramanand Sagar, brought the Filmfare Award for Best Actress despite Asha Parekh’s substantial role in the film.
“A woman of rare elegance, she was like a queen on and off the screen,” Parekh said of her.
“She wasn’t quite like the average film person. She always appeared to be different and detached. But what an actress!”
Talking about Bina, Asha says, “We worked together in one of her best films Ghunghat in 1960 for which she won a Filmfare award. She played Bharat Bhusha’s wife and she was fabulous.”
Talking about her experience of working with the late actress in Ghunghat, Asha says, “Binaji was an introvert.
“I was the youngest person in the unit. She was my senior and very intimidating.
Coastweek -- Pradeep Kumar and Bina Rai in film Anarkali 1953, depicting a tale of Royal romance Shahzada Salim and courtesan Anarkali.
“On the sets, she wouldn’t mix around and kept completely to herself.”
“I remember once a co-star was getting a shot repeatedly wrong.
“The giggler that I am, I kept bursting into giggles. Binaji just stared at me, and then suddenly smiled softly. That was a rare moment of connecting with her.”
Thereafter, Ghunghat director Ramanand Sagar had got very upset with Asha.
“After that incident, he scolded me saying that I should know how to behave in front of someone as big as Bina Raiji.”
Bina Rai was born on 4 June 1936 into a conservative family in Lucknow in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
She was first year student of Arts in the Isabella Theodore College’ of Lucknow in 1950, when she came across an advertisement for a talent contest, she applied and received a call from the sponsors.
Although she had been an active in college dramatics, a film career was never on the cards.
Nevertheless she went Bombay, to participate in the contest where she won along with the Rs. 25,000/- prize money, as well as a leading role in Kishore Sahu’s Kali Ghata (1951), which became her film debut, and also had Kishore Sahu playing the lead.
She had to convince her parents to allow her to act in films, she claimed that she went on a hunger strike to convince her disapproving parents to let her join films, and they finally relented.
Coastweek -- Actress Bina Rai with her husband Prem Nath - much sought-after Bollywood villain.
Kali Ghata (1951), which launched her film career, was only moderately successful, though her beauty did not go unnoticed.
The same was the fate of her next two films, Shole and Aurat with Ashok Kumar and Prem Nath respectively, which came two years later.
Rai acted opposite the handsome Pradeep Kumar in three blockbusters (Anarkali, Taj Mahal, Ghunghat) and a couple of other films; theirs was one of the most popular pairings in the history of Hindi cinema.
Her fourth release, Anarkali, made her a star and a household name.
It was based on the legend of the Mughal emperor Jahangir, and Rai’s eponymous, sensitive portrayal of the ill-fated dancing girl in love with the crown prince Salim had the critics gasping.
Anarkali was the top-grossing Hindi film of its year and one of the biggest hits of the 1950s.
Written by Nasir Husain, the film is an adaptation of Imtiaz Ali Taj’s 1922 play Anarkali.
In Akshay Manwani’s book on the filmmaker, he writes, “It was a doomed love story where Anarkali is entombed for having dared to romance the heir to the Mughal throne.
“Where K. Asif’s film gave a far more significant role to Emperor Akbar (the film is titled Mughal-E-Azam, meaning ‘The Great Mughal’, which refers to Akbar), in Husain’s film, Akbar is a far more effete figure. The focus is on Anarkali.”
Furthermore, Manwani pointed out the ways in which the character is portrayed onscreen in both films.
Coastweek -- Bina Rai and Pradeep Kumar in Taj Mahal (1963).
“Thematically, the difference between the films is also underscored in the manner Anarkali is asked to dance in the ‘Sheesh Mahal’ in front of the emperor.
“In the 1953 film, when Bina Rai dances to ‘Mohabbat mein aise kadam dagmagaaye’, she is not in her senses.
“She has been drugged. She is apologetic as she sings, ‘Mujhe ilzaam na dena meri behoshi ka, meri majboor mohabbat ki yeh rusvaayee hai’ (Do not blame me for not being in my senses, this is the shaming of my helpless love).
“Contrastingly, in Mughal-E-Azam, Shakeel Badayuni’s lyrics for Anarkali, as she is placed before Akbar, are defiant. ‘Jab pyaar kiya toh darna kya’ (When in love, why be afraid), Anarkali tells an enraged Akbar.”
With roles in Insaniyat (1955), Pyaas (1956) and Taj Mahal (1963), Rai was noticed for her onscreen presence and elegance.
She won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her performance in Ghunghat (1960) beating out Nutan in Chhalia and ironically, Madhubala in Mughal-E-Azam.
Rai did not have such good chemistry with the brother-in-law of the actor-director Raj Kapoor, the dashing Prem Nath, with whom she worked in a few films, notably Anarkali, and Aurat (both 1953), the latter a Bollywood version of the Biblical tale of Samson and Delilah.
However, the two fell in love during the making of Aurat, and married and set up their own production unit, P.N. Films.
Their first film from P.N. Films was Shagufa (1954) and they had pinned high hopes on it, but audiences rejected it.
Neither Bina Rai’s elfin charm nor Prem Nath’s sensitive portrayal of the role of a doctor could save Shagufa from being a flop.
And the films that followed Shagufa were Prisoner of Golconda, Samunder and Watan disappeared almost as soon as they hit the theater screens.
Thus the Prem Nath-Bina Rai pairing never clicked on the screen.
Rai was offered what became a celebrated role, the prostitute and dancer Chandramukhi in the 1955 classic Devdas opposite the reigning superstar of that time, Dilip Kumar.
Coastweek -- Bina Rai and Shammi Kapoor in Vallah Kya Baat Hai (1962)
But she refused, saying it was beneath her dignity to play what she called an “immoral” character.
Her last outing was in L.V. Prasad’s 1966 Daadi Maa.
She stopped acting in films many years ago, claiming that women of a certain age don’t get good roles.
Her husband, who later emerged as a ferocious and much sought-after Bollywood villain, died in November 1992.
In the 1970s, her son Prem Krishen became an actor and had one big hit Dulhan Wohi Jo Piya Man Bhaye (1977), but couldn’t sustain the momentum so he turned producer, with the Cinevista banner, which went on produce TV series such as Kathasagar, Gul Gulshan Gulfam and Junoon.
He launched his daughter Akshana Malhotra as an actress in 2002 in his home production, claiming that she reminds him so much of his mother Bina.
In 1992, their son, Kailash (Monty) Nath released a tribute album, to his father on the occasion of his 10th death anniversary and 76th birth anniversary, titled Amar Premnath, released by Saregama.
His grandson, Siddharth Malhotra directed the successful TV series on doctors, Sanjivani (2004).
Coastweek -- Bina Rai in her home production Prisoner of Golconda (1954).
Bina Rai passed away on 6 December 2009, following a cardiac arrest, but will remembered forever for her appealing, spirited portrayal of the doomed courtesan Anarkali.
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Bina Rai was a leading actress primarily of the black and white era. She had to convince her parents to allow her to act in films, she claimed that she went on a hunger strike in order to convince her disapproving parents to let her join films, and they finally relented. In the 1950’s she married actor Prem Nath. They had acted together in some films, the first movie in which he was paired with Bina was Aurat (1953 film), a Bollywood version of the tragic Biblical tale of Samson and Delilah (1949). The film was not a hit, but Bina and Prem Nath fell in love with each other. They married and soon set up their own production unit, known as P.N. Films.
Their first film from P.N. Films was Shagufa (1954) and they had pinned high hopes on it, but audiences rejected it. Neither Bina Rai’s elfin charm nor Prem Nath’s sensitive portrayal of the role of a doctor could save “Shagufa” from being a flop. And the films that followed “Shagufa” — Prisoner of Golconda, Samunder and Watan disappeared almost as soon as they hit the theater screens.
Thus the Prem Nath-Bina Rai pairing never clicked on the screen.
However, her films with leading man Pradeep Kumar remain her best-remembered performances, where she played the title role in Anarkali (1954), Taj Mahal (1963 film) and Ghunghat (1960 film) for which she won the Filmfare Award Best Actress. In the 1970’s, her son Prem Krishen became an actor and had one big hit Dulhan Wohi Jo Piya Man Bhaye (1977) but couldn’t sustain the momentum so he turned producer. He launched his daughter Akshana Malhotra as an actress in 2002 in his home production, claiming that she reminds him so much of his mother Bina. Bina stopped acting in films many years ago, claiming that women of a certain age don’t get good roles. She also talks fondly of her husband Prem Nath who had passed away several years ago.
She passed away on 06th Dec 2009.
Standing, from left: Malaysian actress Maria Menado, Shashikala, Mrs.Mehboob Khan, Miss Gohar, Nutan, Peace Kanwal and Mrs. K Lal.
Sitting, from left: Mrs.Shekhar, Bina Rai, Filmfare’s Hollywood correspondent Sylvia Norris, Kamini Kaushal, Nimmi, Nirupa Roy and Leela Naidu.
Let us tell you that actress Bina Rai also worked in the film Taj Mahal and her most famous film is Ghunghat. At the same time, Bina also received the Best Actress Award for this film. Let all of you know that when Bina was funding, she was 73 years old. Let us tell you that Bina Rai was married to Rajkapoor's brother-in-law Premnath and she died in Mumbai. At the same time, his elder son Premkishan is currently in Melbourne and has two sons.Let us tell you that Bina Rai's first film was Kali Ghata and Bina Rai married Premnath after a love affair. You must have seen Bina Rai's onscreen partner Pradeep Kumar and every film of Bina Rai with her showed amazing at the box office. At the same time, in 1966, the film Dadimaan was her last film and after that she did not appear.
In the 1970s, her son Prem Krishen became an actor and had one big hit Dulhan Wohi Jo Piya Man Bhaye (1977), but couldn't sustain the momentum so he turned producer, with the Cinevista banner, which went on produce TV series such as Kathasagar, Gul Gulshan Gulfam and Junoon. He launched his daughter Akshana Malhotra as an actress in 2002 in his home production, claiming that she reminds him so much of his mother Bina.
Bina stopped acting in films many years ago, claiming that women of a certain age don't get good roles. She also talks fondly of her husband Prem Nath who had died on 3 November 1992. In 1992, their son, Kailash (Monty) Nath released a tribute album, to his father on the occasion of his 10th death anniversary and 76th birth anniversary, titled Amar Premnath, released by Saregama. His grandson, Siddharth Malhotra directed the successful TV series on doctors, Sanjivani (2004).
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