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Bollywood actress Nadira's Birthday

Birthday: Nadira

With more than 250 films to her credit, carries on single-handedly. Nadira is reluctant to probe into the reasons being the non-existent film career. it wasn’t considered appropriate for Hindu women to perform in the pictures of Bollywood.A Baghdadi Jew hailing from Nagpada in south Mumbai - a predominantly Muslim and Jewish locality - Nadira was all of 19 when she stormed her way into Bollywood with Mehboob Khan's "Aan" (1950) opposite the reigning tragedy king Dilip Kumar.