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Asha Parekh was to the movies born. Ever since she was knee-high, she faced the camera as a child artiste, while performing simultaneously at dance fetes. An alumnus of Bombay’s The J. B. Petit Girls’ High School, she devoted after-school hours to learning classical dance from exacting gurus. Given a break as a leading lady by Filmalaya Studio’s Sashadhar Mukherjee, she debuted opposite Shammi Kapoor in the romantic entertainer Dil Deke Dekho. ...
In the world’s most prolific film industry, actors occupy a pre-eminent position. Ever since the birth of cinema more than a century ago, the proficiency of performances in variegated roles by actors have presided over the imagination of millions of movie aficionados. The almost indeterminate volume of a mass audience has increased immeasurably in recent years, the new millennium signalling a film viewership that stretches beyond the circumscribed limits ...