1/3/2023 0 Comments Salma agha india![]() ![]() "That was it! Without any struggle I had landed my big break and I didn’t even realise it then,” laughs Salma recalling her entry into Bollywood over three decades later. ![]() So she went along and he once again reiterated that she was playing the lead in his film. He was a good friend of her grandfather's who had been with All India Radio before he entered films like Chopra, who was a journalist. His composer-friend tried telling him that Salma was there as a singer, but Chopra was adamant about casting her as the female lead in his upcoming social-drama, Nikaah, and asked her to meet him the next day. She was in the recording studio for a song rehearsal with Naushad for Chanakya Aur Chandragupta when producer BR Chopra walked in, took one look at her and said, “Yeh meri Nilofer hai!” But surprisingly, light-eyed beauty Salma Agha was more interested in a career in singing rather than acting. Her maternal grandmother, Anwar Begum, had acted in Heer Ranjha with her grandfather Jugal Kishore Mehra in 1932 and her mother, Nasreen, with KL Saigal in AR Kardaar’s Shahjehan in 1946. ![]()
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