1. Jaddanbai Hussain was an Indian singer, music composer, dancer, actress, filmmaker, and one of the pioneers of Indian cinema.
14 Facts About Jaddanbai
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Jaddanbai was the mother of Akhtar Hussain, Anwar Hussain, and the well-known Hindi actress Nargis, and maternal grandmother of Priya Dutt and Sanjay Dutt.
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Jaddanbai was born around 1892 to Mia Jaan and Daleepabai in a Punjabi family.
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Jaddanbai moved to the city and became a singer but had difficulty due to her lack of formal training.
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Jaddanbai later approached Shrimant Ganpat Rao of Calcutta and became his student.
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Jaddanbai's music became popular and she became an even more famous tawaif than her mother.
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Jaddanbai started participating in music sessions and was invited by the rulers of many princely states such as Rampur, Bikaner, Gwalior, Jammu and Kashmir, Indore, and Jodhpur to perform mehfils.
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Jaddanbai had rendered songs and ghazals at various radio stations nationwide.
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Jaddanbai later began acting when the Play Art Photo Tone Company of Lahore approached her for a role in their movie Raja Gopichand in 1933.
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Jaddanbai played the role of the mother of the title character.
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Jaddanbai worked in two more movies, Prem Pariksha and Seva Sadan, before starting her own production company called Sangeet Films.
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Jaddanbai produced Talashe Haq in 1935, in which she acted and composed the music.
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Jaddanbai was sometimes known by the alias "Jayadevi," a Hindu name, even in some official documents.
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Jaddanbai is the mother-in-law of Sunil Dutt and maternal grandmother of Priya and Sanjay Dutt.