NIMMI NO MORE!

Veteran actress of the golden era of our Indian cinema..Nimmi passed away yesterday at age of 88!

Nimmi & Dilip Kumar in technicolour 

film 'Aan' (1952) by Mehboob Khan!

Her real name was Nawab Banoo and for screen.. RK named her Nimmi when she appeared in it's.. 'Barsaat' (1949). Her village girl in it singing.. 
"Jiya beqarar hai.." was notable!

Then she became lead actress in 1950s to 1960s and did films with that time big stars like..Dev Anand ('Sazaa'), Dilip Kumar ('Daag') & Bharat Bhushan ('Basant Bahar'). And she acted in our India's first technicolour film 'Aan' (1952) made 
by Mehboob Khan!

Nimmi worked in almost 40 films. In great filmmaker K. Asif's last movie 'Love and God' (1986)..she also gave her last performance with Sanjeev Kumar!

Nimmi in song from film 'Udan Khatola' (1954).

I met Nimmiji in our great actor Dilip Kumarji's autobiography launch function at Mumbai five years back!

To homage..I remembered her song in 'Udan Khatola' (1954)..
"Mera salam le ja.."

- Manoj Kulkarni