Famed actress : SHARMILA TAGORE, known for her sensitive performences

The two time National Award winning actress Sharmila Tagore is famed for her spellbinding loveliness and phenomenal performances in Indian cinema. Sharmila Tagore gained immense popularity as an actress in Bengali and Hindi film industry during sixties and seventies.

Sharmila Tagore was fortunate enough to have started her acting career under the legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray. She made her debut at an age of fourteen in Satyajit Ray’s ‘Apur Sansar’ and later appeared in a number of Ray films including ‘Devi’, ‘Nayak’, ‘Aranyer Din Ratri’ and ‘Seemabaddha’.
Sharmila Tagore’s first Hindi film was Shakti Samanta’s ‘Kashmir Ki Kali’ opposite Shammi Kapoor. The film portrayed her angelic beauty in a mesmeric way and she became an overnight star. Sharmila next worked with ace filmmakers like Yash Chopra in ‘Waqt’ and Mohan Segal in ‘Devar’. She cemented her reputation as a talented actress with Hrishikesh Mukherjee's films Anupama, Satyakam and Chupke Chupke.
She was paired with superstar Rajesh Khanna in a number of films and they sparked an incredible chemistry on screen. They appeared together in successful films like ‘Aradhana’, ‘Amar Prem’, ‘Daag’, ‘Maalik’ and ‘Safar’.
Sharmila Tagore won accolades for her performance in Gulzar's 1975 film, 'Mausam’ for which she received the coveted National Film Award for Best Actress. Sharmila continued to rule the Indian film industry with riveting performances in 'Chupke Chupke’, ‘Amanush’, and ‘Desh Premee’.
Sharmila appeared in character roles during nineties in films like Mira Nair’s ‘Mississippi Masala ’ co-starring Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury and Roshan Seth, ‘Aashiq Awara’, her son Saif Ali Khan’s debut film, Indra Kumar’s ‘Mann’ and Dharmesh Darshan’s ‘Dhadkan’.
Sharmila Tagore won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress in the year 2004 for Goutom Ghosh’s Bengali film ‘Abar Aranye’.