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  Remembering the royally graceful actress Veena – Birth anniversary special Born July 4, 1926 in Quetta, India Died November 14, 2004 in India  (undisclosed) Birth Name Tajour Sultana Height 5' 7½" (1.71 m) Mini Bio (1) She started out playing heroine roles in Pre-Partition films. She made her debut with Garib and Gawandhi (1942) at around sixteen years of age. Garib was made in Urdu and Gawandhi was made in Punjabi and directed by Mehboob Khan. In Garib, she played the role of Lata and in Gawandhi she played heroine opposite Shyam who played the hero. She became known for her roles in Pre-Partition Hindi and Urdu films. Her early years in films came with films like Najma (1943), Phool (1945), and Humayun (1945). Her last film before the Partition of India was Rajputani (1946) in which she played a supporting role. She decided to remain in India after the partition and she acted through the mid-to-late-1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and early-1980s. She played roles in bi...

VEENA,FORGOTTON BOLLYWOOD ACTRESS  BORN JULY 4,1926- 2004 NOVEMBER 14 The actress Veena, birth name Tajour Sultana, was born in Quetta, Baluchistan (now in Pakistan), on the same date as another beautiful actress, Naseem Banu, who had a decade over her contemporary. The two actresses were similar in looks and worked around the same period of the 1940s and 1950s. However, Naseem Banu retired from films and later concentrated on guiding her daughter Saira Banu after she made her debut with Junglee (1961). Veena (also known as Veena Kumari) made her debut at 16 in a Mehboob Khan production, Garib (1942), and continued working until the 1980s when she was a part of Kamal Amrohi’s Razia Sultan (1983) as the empress Shah Turkhan. Her regal bearing and manner meant that she was often cast as royalty or as the daughter in a rich household. Veena was meant to play Bahar, a court attendant to empress Jodhabai, in K Asif’s Mughal-e-Azam when it was first launched in Novembe...