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| Aabroo | Nazir | Sitara Devi, Yakub, Masud, Nazir Ahmad, Chandabai, Laddan, Jagdish Sethi | Social | Music: Pandit Gobindram Lyrics: Tanveer Naqvi, Rajjan, Hasrat Lakhnavi, Swami Ramanand Saraswati |
Aabroo
1943
India, Hindi
Aabroo (1943)
| Film cast: | Chanda |
| Singer: | G M Durrani, Sitara Devi, Nazeer Ahmed, Vatsala Kumthekar |
| Lyricist: | Tanveer Naqvi, Rajjan, Hasrat Lakhnavi, Swami Ramanand Saraswati |
| Music Director: | Govind Ram |
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Yakub is seen singing this popular Dadra in a comic style in the film.
NAIYA HAMARI PAAR LAGAO -- SITARA DEVI - FILM -AABROO (1943)
AN AWSOME BHAJAN SUNG BY SITARA DEVI IN THE FILM.
YEH GHAM KA FASANA HAI -- SITARA DEVI -AABROO(1943)
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"SAUTAN KE GHAR NA JAIYO.." -- SITARA DEVI --AABROO(1943)
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Aabroo - Inhi Logon Ne Le Leena Dupatta Mera (Yakub)
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"PIYA MILAN KI RUT AAYEE HAI MAN MORA DOLE...."(I) -- SITARA DEVI,G.M.DURRANI -- AABROO(1943) -
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YEH GHAM KA FASANA HAI -- SITARA DEVI -AABROO(1943)
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March 31,2014
94-year-old Kathak Queen Sitara Devi blasts Maha Govt & CM for indifference and insensitivity
Padma Shree Sitara Devi contemplates hunger strike to express her displeasure towards government apathy
In an informal interaction with some
media persons in Mumbai on Saturday, a visibly angry and hurt
94-year-old Kathak veteran and Padma Shree, Sitara Devi took on the
Maharashtra CM, the State Government and Maharashtrian politicians and
its officials saying that they were an irresponsible lot and lacked
honesty, integrity and administrative skills. "For the last 60
years, I have been pleading and requesting the Maharashtra Government
for a decent-sized plot of land to start an Indian Dance Academy, but my
pleas, requests and entreaties have all fallen on deaf ears.
I have lived for the last 80 years in
Mumbai and given the city and state everything I have in terms of my
talent, my energy and my skills. I have trained and counseled
thousands of students and done hundreds of shows, performances and
appearances free of cost in Maharashtra and the rest of India at the
request of Government officials and politicians.
Time and again some collector or
minister has promised me the earth, moon and sky, but nothing has come
out of it," Sitara Devi said with tears in her eyes stating that she has
planned to go on a hunger strike if the government does not cede to
her wishes. "I am not demanding the academy for myself or my family, but
for the sake of dance and the performing arts.
There is no international standard dance
college or academy in Maharashtra and a wealthy state like
Maharashtra that houses the country's financial and intellectual capital
Mumbai should allocate resources and land for such an academy,"
Sitara Devi opined. Meanwhile, the Craftsmen, Artistes &
Designers Promotion Forum or CADPF – a newly-launched NGO has decided to
take up the cause of octogenarian and Padmashree Sitara Devi's demand
for a Dance Academy in Mumbai.
Kathak exponent and a student of Sitara
Devi's daughter Jayantimala - Ranjana Bhattacharya of the CADPF said,
"For decades since the late 1970s, the 94-year-old Kathak Queen
Padmashree Sitara Devi has been demanding a decent sized plot of land in
or around Mumbai to start a residential dance academy to educate
students both in Classical and modern styles of dance. She has met
hundreds of politicians, collectors and even private individuals and
corporate CEOs to support her dream but her demands have fallen on deaf
years.
The 94-year-old- plus Sitara Devi has
been living in Mumbai for over 80 years now and while politicians and
businessmen have been allocated plots over the years, this dancing
legend has been sidelined and ignored.” According to the CADPF,
Sitara Devi's Kala Kriti Kendra has been teaching dance to Angan wadi
children, the poor and the lesser privileged dance for the last 15
years. They have also offered financial support and help to deserving
senior artistes to help them tide over their difficulties.
Sitara Devi has been doing a lot of
charity for the last 5 decades, but she has never highlighted or
publicized that part of her life as she believes that Charity works
should be tom-tommed. The CADPF has launched an online petition with a
signature collection drive located at www.newz66.com/support-sitara- devi/
and requested all lovers of all forms of dance and particularly Kathak
to join this campaign to demand a professional and independent Dance
Academy in Mumbai comparable to the best in the World.
Politicians, their friends and their
family members are allocated plots of land for a song while this
94-year-old professional dancer who has won hundreds of National and
International Awards and performed all over the world, bringing name
and fame to the country has been conveniently side-lined, said Flynn
Remedios, publicist for the CADPF.
To support this campaign and to SUPPORT SITARA DEVI's demands for an Independent Dance Academy in Mumbai go to www.newz66.com/support-sitara-devi/
and leave your comments. Please mention your full name, location and
email id to ensure that your submission is valid. Your comment with
your correct full name, location and email id will be counted as one
vote.
CADPF has also launched a Facebook page located at www.facebook.com/support-sitara-devi for the same cause.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
‘katha-nrityangana’ – Sitara Devi
‘katha-nrityangana’ – Sitara
Devi
…………………Shishir Krishna Sharma
(Translated from original Hindi to English by Ms. Akhsher Apoorva)
(Videos
shot, edited & uploaded by Mr.Manaswi Sharma )
Whenever
Kathak is mentioned the first name to come to mind is Sitara Devi. It
won’t be wrong to say that Sitara Devi and Kathak dance complement each
other perfectly. Where the common man is concerned, the name Sitara Devi
may be a familiar and known name for them but, what they might not be
well versed with is that towards the end of 1930’s Sitara Devi actually
emerged as a Sitara i.e. Star actress of Hindi cinema. In 1940’s she did
many films as a heroine, she also played the vamp in some, and then, in
the second half of 1950’s, she bid adieu to acting and completely
immersed herself in the service of Kathak dance. It might be that the 90
years old Sitara Devi’s body may have begun to show signs of aging,
but, her dedication and zeal for Kathak is still as fresh as that of a
youth.
Originally
from a Benaras situated Mishra family, Sitara Devi’s clan had a
tradition of singing and playing in temples for the last 5 centuries.
The Mishra family had very close relations with Nepal and Nepal’s royal
family. Sitara Devi’s grandfather Pandit Ramdass Mishra was a royal
singer in the Nepalese king’s court. Her grandmother and mother Matsya
Kumari had hailed from Nepal and hence she considers herself ‘half-Nepalese’. Sitara Devi’s maternal grandfather ‘Maila
Pandit Upadhyay’ was Nepal’s Rajguru (royal educator & priest) and
her father Acharya Pandit Sukhdev Maharaj was a high ranking poet, singer and storyteller. Sukhdev Maharaj not only took the family tradition of music and dance to new heights but also
did many experiments with storytelling and emotions, ‘bhāva-Pradarshan’
(display of emotions) namely Kathanritya (Katha: story, Nritya: dance).
Sitara Devi considers the word ‘Kathak’ a corrupted expression (Apabhransha) of ‘Kathanritya’. She says, this dance forms true name is ‘Kathanritya’ because it originated from the emotive performances rendered during story telling in temples.
In
those days dancing and singing was forbidden for girls from good
families and was considered as the labor of courtesans. This rule was
followed very strictly even in the Mishra family. That’s why when
Sukhdev Maharaj ardently wanted to announce and publicize his
experiments and wanted to train his daughters for the same, he had to
face heavy opposition from his relatives and society. When Sukhdev
Maharaj refused to give in to social pressures, his family was socially
out casted. Inevitably he had to leave his locality and he shifted to
‘Kabeer Chaura’ in Benaras itself where he opened a music school. And
then after some time he went to East Bengal’s Memansingh homestead with
his entire household where he tutored the children of the Royal families
in music. This was towards the end of 1920’s. Sitara Devi was born in
Kolkata in the year 1922 on October on the day of Dhanteras but
according to her it could be the year 1920 or even 1921.
Sitara
Devi’s elder sisters Alaknanda and Tara Devi, both were well known
dancers of their times. At the age of 10 years, Sitara Devi too had
joined the stage. In the days of Wajid Ali Shah, Mishra families Pandit
Thakur Prasad had migrated to Lucknow. There was a heavy influence of
the Moghal culture on the musical and dance experiments of Pandit Thakur
Prasad and on his successors Kalka Maharaj, Bindadeen Maharaj, Shambhu Maharaj, Lachchhu
Maharaj and now Birju Maharaj and thus Shringar Ras (flavor of
adornment) became the Lucknow Gharana’s mainstay while Bhakti Ras
(flavor of devotion) became the backbone of the Benaras Gharana. This is
the reason why inspite of hailing form the Benaras Gharana, Sitara Devi
prefers being called katha-nrityangana. (Katha:story,
Nrityangana:dancer)
Sitara Devi tells us, “At that time director Niranjan Sharma was making a movie ‘Usha Haran’ in
Mumbai in which Zubaida’s sister Sultana was cast as a heroine. For
another role in the movie he wanted to cast a small girl who knew
classical dance and to find such a child they met with the courtesans of
Benaras. In contrast to cities like Lucknow, Agra, Delhi, Kolkata
and Lahore, the harlots of Benaras were mostly Hindus. Because they
were largely unfamiliar with classical dance, on advice of the famous
singer Siddheshwari Devi, who herself was from a courtesans family,
Niranjan Sharma came to meet my father. We stayed in Kolkata but used to
visit Benaras quite frequently. Niranjan Sharma saw me dancing in my
father’s dance school and chose me for that role in his movie ‘Usha Haran’. And subsequently in the year 1933-34, I went to Mumbai. I was 12-13 years old at that time.”
It took 6-7 years to make Usha Haran and the film was released in 1940. But it didn’t take long for Sitara Devi to get work. Soon after reaching Mumbai she got chance to dance in ‘Vasant Movietone’s’ ‘Vasant Sena’ (1934), ‘Sagar Movietone’s’ ‘Anokhi Mohabbat’, ‘Shaher Ka Jadoo’ (both 1934), ‘Vengeance Is Mine’ alias ‘Vair Ka Badla’, ‘Registan Ki Rani’ (both 1935) and Manmohan Desai’s father Kikubhai Desai’s ‘Paramount film Company’ one film. ‘Shaher Ka Jadoo’ was Motilal’s first film wherein Sitara Devi’s elder sister Tara Devi had also acted. Other than this, Tara Devi was also seen in films like ‘Matsyagandha’, ‘Shahi Lakad-hara’, ‘Thief Of Iraq’, ‘Vasantsena’ (all 1934). The famous dancer Gopi Krishna was Tara Devi’s son. Likewise Sitara Devi’s eldest sister Alaknanda also acted in films like ‘Suryakumari’ (1933), ‘Actress’, ‘Cinema Queen’, ‘Khaak Ka Putla’, ‘Nav Bharat’ (all 1934), ‘Laal Chitthi’, ‘Magic Horse’ and ‘Prem Pujari’ (all 1935).
(As per senior film historian Shri D.B.Samant, Tara Devi had married the then famous actor ‘Maruti Rao Pahelwan’,
also her costar of films like ‘Matsyagandha’ and ‘Shahi Lakad-hara’,
and a few years later the two left Mumbai and settled in Dhule city.)
Sitara Devi got her first break as an actress in ‘Sagar Movietone’s’ movie ‘Judgement Of Allah’ alias ‘Al-Hilal’ in the year 1935 which
was also Mehboob Khan’s first directorial venture. This film’s music
director was Pransukh M.Nayak and main leads were Kumar, Sitara, Yaqoob
and Indira. Sitara Devi tells us, “at that time playback had not
started and we ourselves had to sing songs in front of the camera. I too
have also sung many songs like that for my films.”
Alongwith essaying important roles in films like ‘Kumar Movietone’s’ ‘Nazar Ka Shikar’, ‘Golden Eagle Movietone’s’ ‘Prem Bandhan’ ‘Taj Productions’s’ ‘Zan Mureed’ (all 1936), ‘Hans Pictures’s’ ‘Begunaah’, ‘Prince Movietone’s’ ‘Calcutta Ki Raat’, ‘Sangeet film Company’s’ ‘Jeewan Swapn’, ‘Sagar film Company’s’ ‘Mahageet’ (all 1937), ‘General Films’s’ ‘Baagbaan’, ‘Ranjit Movietone’s’ ‘Professor Woman M.Sc.’ (both 1938), in the year 1938 she got a chance to work under Mehboob’s direction once again. This was ‘Sagar film Company’s’ film ‘Watan’ where Sitara Devi’s co-artistes were Kumar, Bibbo, Yaqoob and Maya Banerjee, music
director was Anil Biswas and Sitara Devi had sung a few songs in the
movie as well. ‘Sagar film Company’s’ film ‘Mahageet’ (1937),
composed by Anil Biswas was the first film to be made in Mumbai where
playback was used for the first time, although playback had already been
introduced in ‘New Theatre – Kolkata’s film ‘Dhoop Chhaon’ in 1935.
In the year 1939, Sitara Devi played the main lead in ‘Ranjit Movietone’s’ ‘Nadi Kinaare’, ‘Supreme Pictures’s’ ‘Meri Ankhein’ and ‘General Films’s’ ‘Pati-Patni’, while in 1940 she was seen in important roles in ‘Ranjit Movietone’s’ ‘Aaj Ka Hindustan’, ‘Achhoot’, ‘Holi’, ‘Pagal’, ‘National Studios’s’ ‘Pooja’, ‘Popular Films’s’ ‘Haiwaan’ and ‘New Theatres-Kolkata’s film ‘Zindagi’. ‘Achhoot’ was
Gauharjaan Mamajiwala’s last film as an actress where under Gyan Dutt’s
music, Sitara accompanied with Kantilal and Vasanti, sang ‘bansi bani bansidhar ki, tum radha bano nat-nagar ki’, which was penned by Pyarelal Santoshi. In the movie ‘Haiwaan’, Sitara acted with both her sisters, Alaknanda and Tara Devi.
At ‘Ranjit Movietone’, Sitara met that era’s famous singer-actress Waheedan who had worked under the banner for movies like ‘Professor Woman M.Sc.’, ‘Prithvi Putra’, ‘Rickshaw-wala’, ‘Secretary’ (all 1938), ‘Thokar’ (1939) and also for ‘Sagar film Company’s’ film ‘Alibaba’ (1940) directed
by Mehboob where she had won over the audiences with not only her
acting but also her brilliant singing. Waheedan’s younger sister Jyoti
was also a singer-actress who had worked in movies like ‘Sagar Movietone’s’ ‘Comrades’, ‘Ek Hi Rasta’ (both 1939), ‘National Studios’s’ Mehboob directed ‘Aurat’, ‘Sanskaar’ (both 1940).
Shortly thereafter Waheedan fell ill and returned to her parents’ house
in Fatehabad where she finally passed away. Meanwhile Jyoti had married
singer-actor
G.M.Durrani. At the time of Waheedan’s death, her daughter Nimmi was 7
years old who later on became Hindi Cinema’s star actress. Even today
Sitara Devi remembers Waheedan with a lot of respect and tells us that
she was the one who gave Jyoti this name.
In the beginning of 1940’s, Sitara Devi was seen as heroine in ‘Circo Productions’s’ film ‘Swami’ (1941) where
her romantic lead was P.Jairaj. Made under the direction of
Kardar, Sitara Devi had sung a solo and a few duets with Rajkumari and
Khan Mastana in this film. In 1942 she was seen as the lead actress in ‘Ranjit Movietone’s’ ‘Dheeraj’ and ‘Dukh-Sukh’.
Actor Nazeer having costarred with Sitara in 1938’s film ‘Baagbaan’, made ‘Sandesha’ (1940) in partnership with Yasmeen which was the first film under the banner of ‘Hind Pictures’. According to Sitara Devi, Yasmeen, who was originally a Jew, suddenly fell very ill. And resultant film-production under the banner of ‘Hind Pictures’s’ was shut down.
(As per Shri D.B.Samant, Yasmeen was Nazeer’s wife, however Sitara Devi claims to be unknown to this fact.)
After almost 2 years, Nazeer decided to revive ‘Hind Pictures’ and
offered to make Sitara Devi a partner in his Company which Sitara Devi
happily accepted. She made 5 films under the banner of ‘Hind Pictures’ With Nazeer, ‘Kalyug’, ‘Society’ (both 1942), ‘Aabroo, ‘Chhedchhaad’ and ‘Salma’ (all 1943) and also played the main lead in all these films. In ‘Kalyug’, ‘Society’, ‘Aabroo and ‘Chhedchhaad’, Sitara Devi’s opposite lead was Nazeer while in ‘Salma’, the opposite lead was Ishwarlal. While in 1943 for ‘Silver Films’s’ movie ‘Bhalaai’, directed by Nazeer, Sitara Devi played the female lead opposite Prithviraj Kapoor. Sitara Devi says, “the
production’s responsibility for ‘Hind Pictures’ was given to Nazeer’s
sister’s son K.Asif who was of my age and was a good friend of mine.
After having made 5 films as a partner, when I didn’t receive a single
penny from the Company I got very upset. There K.Asif was also upset
with his uncle (mamoo) Nazeer due to some reasons. In such circumstances
we became each other’s support, we started sharing our sorrows, our
intimacy increased and then in 1944 we had a civil marriage.
(In contradiction to Sitara Devi’s story, Shri D.B.Samant says that K.Asif had nothing to do with ‘Hind Pictures’ other
than that he was Nazeer’s nephew. Nazeer did not like K.Asif’s almost
daily presence in the studio and hence he opened a tailoring shop for
K.Asif in Dadar TT)
Even after parting ways with Sitara Devi, ‘Hind Pictures’ made films like ‘Laila Majnu’ (1945), ‘Maa Baap Ki Laaj’, ‘Wamik Azra’ (both 1946), ‘Aabida’, ‘Mallika’, ‘Yaadgaar’ (all 1947) and ‘Gharbaar’ (1948) under its banner here except in ‘Mallika’ and ‘Yaadgaar’, Nazeer’s
heroine in all other films was Swarnlata. Nazeer married Swarnlata who
was from a sikh family and after partition, they both migrated to
Pakistan.
In the 1942’s ‘National Studios’s’ film ‘Roti’,
Sitara Devi got a chance to work as a heroine once again under
Mehboob’s direction. In this big budget and big starcast film, important
roles were played by Chandramohan, Sitara
Devi and Sheikh Mukhtar, and Akhtari Faizabadi also essayed an
important role. Later on while Sitara Devi completely immersed herself
in Kathak, Akhtari Faizabadi crossed many milestones as ‘Begam Akhtar’ in 'semi-classical' singing. Sitara Devi sung 3 solos for the film ‘Roti’ under the music direction of Anil Biswas.
In the year 1943, Sitara Devi was once again seen in ‘Ranjit Movietone’s’ film ‘Andhera’. Arun was her hero for the film. Today’s famous actor Govinda is Arun’s son. For the film ‘Andhera’, Sitara
Devi, under Gyan Dutt’s music sang one solo and a duet with K.C.Dey
and 2 duets with Arun. In 1943 Mehboob decided to become a producer and
established his ‘Mehboob Productions’. This banner’s first film was ‘Najma’ where Sitara’s co-artistes were Ashok Kumar, Veena, Mijjan
Kumar and Yaqoob. Under Rafiq Ghaznavi’s music direction, Sitara Devi
sang 1 solo, 1 duet with Parul Ghosh and 2 duets with Ashok Kumar.
In
the year 1944, Sitara Devi acted in ‘Prabhat Film Company(Pune)’s’ film
‘Chaand’, she also sang 2 solos for it. Film ‘Chaand’ will also be
remembered as the debut film of first music director duo of the history
of Indian Cinema ‘Husnlal Bhagatram’. This was also actress Brgumpara’s
debut film.
Sitara Devi was also seen in actress Nanda’s father Master Vinayak’s ‘Prafull Pictures’s’ film ‘Badi Maa’ in 1945. Directed by Master Vinayak, the film featured Noorjehan, Ishwarlal, Yaqoob
and Sitara Devi as well as Lata Mangeshkar who not only acted, but also
sang 2 songs, pictured on her, under Datta Korgaonkar’s music. In the
same year, 1945, Sitara Devi was seen in ‘Atre Pictures’s’ ‘Parinde’ and ‘Famous Films’s’ ‘Phool’ as well. ‘Phool’ was made under the direction of her husband K.Asif where other than Sitara, actors who essayed main roles were Veena, Prithviraj Kapoor, Suraiya, Yaqoob and Mazhar Khan. The films music director was Ghulam Hyder.
In the 2nd half
of 40’s, Sitara Devi had completely inclined towards Kathak. She had
almost separated herself form singing and acting, however she did
continue to do the one odd film. In 1947, Sitara Devi acted and sang for ‘Sunrise Pictures’s’ film ‘Amar Asha’. Almost 2 years later, in 1949 she was seen in ‘Liberty Art Productions’s’ film ‘Lekh’ along with Suraiya and Motilal, and in 1950 she was seen in ‘Hindustan Chitra’s’ film ‘Bijli’. In 1951, her husand K.Asif under the banner of ‘K.Asif Productions’, made his first film ‘Hulchal’ as
producer in which Sitara Devi worked with big stars like Dilip Kumar
and Nargis. Lata Mangeshkar lent her voice in playback for Sitara Devi
in this film. Made in the year 1957, Chetan Anand’s ‘Anjali’, composed by Jaidev was Sitara Devi’s last film as an actress where her final co-stars were Chetan Anand, Nimmi and Sheela Ramani. In the same year she was seen dancing in a song of Mehboob Khan’s film ‘Mother India’, ‘holi aai re kanhai rang chhalke’, along with Kumkum.
‘Mother
India’ proved to be Sitara Devi’s last film after which she completely
inundated herself in dance. She did Kathak Programs in many countries
all over the world. The distance between K.Asif and herself had been
growing for a while now. Exposing the reasons behind this growing
separation, Sitara Devi says, “In all sense K.Asif was a very decent, intelligent
and progressive person. He used to take good care of me. But the thing
that I couldn’t tolerate was his colorful nature. 2 – 3 years after our
marriage, he went to Lahore and got married once again. He started ‘Mughal-e-Azam’ in 1950’s and got married for the 3rd time
to Nigaar Sultana who was portraying an important role in that movie.
And despite being his legal wife, I had to separate from him. In 1958 for
a program I had gone to Daressalam city in East Africa where many
Gujrati families had settled down. Our accommodation was with one such
Gujrati family. After some time my friendship with Pratap Barot of that
family translated into marriage. Pratap Barot is the brother of the then
famous singer Kamal Barot and film Don’s director Chandra Barot. As the
British raj ended in East Africa, like all Indians, the Barot family
was also forced to leave the country and Pratap Barot, who was an engineer with British Airways, went and settled in London. He still lives in London, although in 1970 I
separated with Pratap Barot. Our only son Ranjit Barot lives in Mumbai
and is a big name in the music industry. Meanwhile, K.Asif was not
satisfied even with his 3rd marriage. In 1960’s he started a new film with Gurudutt, ‘Love and God’ and during the same time he married Dilip Kumar’s younger sister Akhtar making it his 4th marriage. Dilip Kumar hasn’t been able to forgive Akhtar and K.Asif for this even today.”
With Gurudutt’s death in the year 1964, the film ‘Love and God’ remained incomplete. Some years later K.Asif replaced Gurudutt with Sanjeev Kumar and started shooting afresh. Sitara Devi says, “On 9 March 1971,
I was performing in Mumbai’s Shanmukhanand Hall. At 2 AM after reaching
home I got to know that K.Asif is no more. He had gone to meet Sanjeev
Kumar and at around 6 PM at Sanjeev Kumar’s residence he suddenly
collapsed and died instantly. He was just 48 at that time. After his
death, being his legal wife, I performed the various final rites like
“Shayyadaan” as per Hindu traditions at my residence.”
‘Padmshri’, ‘Sangeet Natak Academy award’, ‘Doctorate from Khairagadh University’, ‘Kalidas Samman’, ‘Maharashtra Gaurav Puraskar’, ‘Rasik-Ranjana’, ‘Nritya-Nipuna’,
having acquired dozens of such awards, Sitara Devi used to stay at
South Mumbai’s famous Peddar Road till around 3 years ago. Today, she
stays at Aramnagar in Andheri (West)’s 7 bunglows area. She is Dilip
Kumar’s adopted sister and has been regularly tying him a Rakhi for the
last few decades. Having shunned the Government of India’s
‘Padm-Vibhooshan’ award, Sitara Devi says, if you want to honor me then
do it with a ‘Bharat Ratan’. I have dedicated my entire life to Katha-nritya, and for a dancer like me, any honor other than a ‘Bharat Ratan’ is not an honor but an insult.
Acknowledgements : We are thankful to Shri D.B.Samant, Shri Harmandir Singh ‘Hamraz’ and Shri harish Raghuvanshi for their valuable suggestions and guidance.
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