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Lone Star
IN EARLY 1984, the actress Parveen Babi announced her retirement from Bollywood in blazingly public fashion: she wrote about it in a cover story for the Illustrated Weekly of India. Titled “The Confessions of Parveen Babi,” the essay was diaristic and occasionally disturbing in its honesty. “Have you ever wondered what it is like to function in life, distrusting everything and everybody?” the actress, then 34 years old, wrote. “Slowly, one by one, I lost trust in everybody and everything around me. We trust most of the things and people around us without questioning. We trust the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe.”
Diagnosed with schizophrenia in the late 1970s, Babi had experienced her latest breakdown just months before the article’s publication. She was nearing the end of a noteworthy career in Bollywood. In her ten years in the industry, Babi projected a new, assuredly “progressive” image for women in popular Hindi cinema in films such as Majboor and Deewaar.Along with her contemporary Zeenat Aman, Babi introduced audiences to a bohemia
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Parveen Babi
ACTOR
1949 - 2005
Parveen Babi
Parveen Sultana Wali Mohammad Khanji Babi (pronounced [ˈpəɾ.ʋin bɑ.bi]; 4 April 1954 – 20 January 2005) was an Indian actress and model who worked in Hindi films. One of the highest-paid actresses of the 1970s–80s, she appeared in 70 films and was the first Bollywood star to appear on the cover of Time magazine. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Parveen Babi has received more than 6,691,989 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Parveen Babi is the 5,488th most popular actor (down from 5,071st in 2019), the 695th most popular biography from India (down from 586th in 2019) and the 96th most popular Indian Actor.
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Among ACTORS
Among actors, Parveen Babi ranks 5,488 out of 13,578. Before her are Nathalie Emmanuel, Shatrughan
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Parveen Babi, Bollywood’s sensual seductress who died alone and forgotten at 50
Shatrughan Sinha, Parveen’s co-star in Badd Aur Badnaam, Shaan and Iraada, remembered her as “vivacious, articulate, intelligent and very beautiful…She was one of the rare heroines with beauty and brains.” Parveen was a name that resonated with unparalleled charisma, elegance, and glamour, leaving an indelible mark on the Indian film industry. Dominating the scene for 13 years, she acted in a total of 50 films, ten of which were blockbusters, before she vanished from the scene in 1983, though many of her films continued to be released till 1988, with her last film Irada releasing in 1991. In an era when saree-clad ‘sanskari’ actresses were dominating the film industry, Parveen broke the mould and arrived as a breath of fresh air. Her long hair, hourglass figure, her western looks, and the ‘bold’ roles she played, broke the template in many ways.
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In 1975, in Yash Chopra’s Deewar, Parveen was shown drinking with Amitabh Bachchan, and lighting a cigarette
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