![]() ![]() Made on a modest budget of Rs 19 lakh, it was a superhit. "Raj Babbar who played my second husband in the film and who has remained a good friend since, reprimanded me saying, 'Why do you take things to heart? It will make you ill.' But I continued crying," she laughs.Ĭhanakya Aur Chandragupta never got made but Nikaah, earlier titled Talaq, Talaq, Talaq, based on the Sharia laws of divorce and its misuse, opened in 1982. So much so that after one particular scene she was so distraught that she just wouldn't stop crying even after the camera stopped rolling. She was a complete novice but Chopra was the patient mentordirector, explaining every technical detail minutely to her, and Salma put her heart into her performance. "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. It does not store any personal data.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. ![]() The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. ![]()
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