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Still remembered for 'Nikaah' and a nasal twang, Salma Agha's marriages to Mahmood Sipra, Javed Shaikh and Rehmat Khan, all ended in divorce.
Updated : Nov 21, 2013, 01:44 PM IST
Begum Para: Mother of tele-actor Ayub Khan, she rarely emerges out of her Versova apartment
Shakila: The chiselled beauty of the 1950s, best remembered for Hatim Tai and CID, resurfaces occasionally at the Cannes festival (!) and at Bandra’s Jogging Park
Nanda: The chhoti bahen of yore, as reclusive as Suchitra Sen and Nalini Jaywant
Ameeta: The tonga companion of Shammi Kapoor in Tumsa Nahin Dekha, returned to tinsel zone with her daughter Sabia who was allegedly traumatised by Rajesh Khanna. Mother and daughter were never heard of again
Rajshree: V Shantaram’s daughter who left movies like Suhaag Raat incomplete, on marriage to a Los Angelisian
Sabita Chatterjee: The apple-faced heroine of B-grade movies was never heard of in the colour era
Nishi: On the vampish side, she married Raj Kumar Kohli and quit
Indira Billi: Totally camp, she was called Billi for her light eyes. Featured with Balraj Sahni in film noir Black Cat and entranced Raaj Kumar in Mere Huzoor
Zaherra: She even did a bit part in the 007 flick On Her Majesty’s Secret Service... then poof!
Zahida: Niece of Nargis and consort to Dev Anand in Prem Pujari, Gambler
Kalpana: Heroine of Shammi Kapoor in Professor... no verified information available
Nazima: The eternal sister subjected to a record number of rape scenes
Nazneen: In the Nazima mould, she toted a hit with the successful Muslim social Mere Gharib Nawaz
Archana: A St Xavier’s College graduate, she debuted in Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Budha Mil Gaya. Like the Swades heroine, Gayatri Joshi, she preferred marriage to the movies
Vikram: He made Lovely Laxmi’s heart beat in Julie, showed up with Smita Patil and Naseeruddin Shah in the football movie Sitam, now an event manager
Mahendra Sandhu: India’s Dirty Harry-cum-James Bond who slayed the box office with Agent Vinod
Rinku Jaiswal: Last sighted in hot pants with Shashi Kapoor in Mr Romeo
Prema Narayan: Vanished soon after Umrao Jaan
Kum Kum: Rekha swears by her dances to this day. Last seen in Ramanand Sagar’s Jalte Badan
Zeb Rehman: The scene stealer of Jeevan Mrityu and Aankhen
Radha Saluja: Film Institute graduate, the Do Raha girl, today running a travel agency in LA
Rehana Sultan: Also from the Film Institute, daring to go all the way in shock value in Chetna, whose director BR Ishara she married and retired prematurely
Kim: The Disco Dancer heroine was linked to Danny Denzongpa and then... who knows?
Kunal and Karan Kapoor: Shashi Kapoor’s son Kunal switched to ad films after Ahista Ahista with Padmini Kolhapure, Karan packed off to the west
Rohan Kapoor: Yash Chopra wanted to make Mahendra Kapoor’s son the next Amitabh Bachchan..the rest isn’t history
Rajeev Goswami: Manoj Kumar’s kid brother, who cavorted in the snows with mini-skirted Meenakshi Seshadri (in the US today)
Helena Luke: Mithun Chakraborty’s wife for the briefest of times, whooped it up as a hoity toity memsaab in Manmohan Desai’s Mard
Purnima: Bhagyashree’s kid sister debuted in Amol Palekar’s tele-serial Kachi Dhoop, appeared in the monumental blunder Taj Mahal directed by Robin Khosla
Salma Agha: Still remembered for Nikaah and a nasal twang, her marriages to tycoon Mahmood Sipra, Pakistani actor Javed Shaikh and squash coach Rehmat Khan, all ended in divorce... then no news.
Pratibha Sinha: The debut of Mala Sinha’s daughter with Boy ‘Joy’ Mukherjee was a fiasco, ditto her liaison with music composer Nadeem. Claim to fame: the Pardesi pardesi ditty of Raja Hindustani