Nimmi
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Nimmi (b. 1932) was a famous actress in the 1950s.
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[edit] Career
Nimmi was born in the small town of Fatehbad, Uttar Pradesh in 1932. Her mother's name was Wahidan. She came to Bombay with her mother who played small roles in minor films in the 1930s. Nimmi was fortunate to get a break in Barsaat (1949) through Raj Kapoor, where she played the role of an innocent poor girl in love with a rich man (played by Premnath). Soon she was working with heroes like Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand and Dilip Kumar in the 1950s. She shot to major stardom when Mehboob Khan cast her in his big-budget musical Aan (1952) as a village belle alongside Dilip Kumar, whom she acted with in previously Daag and Deedar. She later played a challenging role of a rape victim in Mehboob Khan's Amar (1954) once again with Dilip Kumar.
In the late 1950s, Nimmi worked with renowned directors like Chetan Anand, Vijay Bhatt, and K.A. Abbas. As her career progressed, Nimmi delved into film production and started her own banner. She made the film Danka both as a star and a producer.
By the 1960s, Nimmi's career went under a cloud with all the new actresses coming in. Being a fan of Ashok Kumar, she never really got to pair with him romantically, despite starring alongside him in Deedar and Bhai Bhai. She made her last film, Akashdeep (1965) and left the film industry. Her incomplete film Love and God which went through many difficulties during filming in the 1960s after the deaths of leading actor Guru Dutt and director K. Asif was released in 1986.
[edit] Personal life
She fell in love with screen writer S. Ali Raza, who wrote the dialogues for her films Barsaat, Aan and Amar married him and settled down in Mumbai. S. Ali Raza died on November 1, 2007 of heart failure at the age of 85.
[edit] Selected filmography
- Barsaat (1949)
- Deedar (1951)
- Aan (1952)
- Daag (1952)
- Amar (1954)
- Uran Khatola (1955)
- Mere Mehboob (1963)
- Pooja Ke Phool (1964)
- Akashdeep (1965)
- Love and God (1986)
[edit] Trivia
- Oscar winner, Ismail Merchant, admits to being obsessed with Nimmi at age 13, and was hugely jealous about her affair with a cameraman.
- She was a singer in the film Bedardi (1951) in which she also acted. She never continued singing and recorded songs for this film only.
