You’re prolly tired of finding mention of this lovely maiden in every journal and magazine and newspaper. I, like the scores of other writers, just couldn’t resist the temptation of having a page dedicated to this stunning beauty. Born to a French mother and a nuclear physicist of a father, this dame was crowned Miss India in 1954 and featured as one of the ten most beautiful women in the world in the Vogue magazine. In this file picture, the beauty of her virgin non made-up face is striking. I am a girl and well… I’m flat!
I went about announcing to the world yesterday that I had just commenced writing for a movie portal. My sister, in charachteristic rebuke exclaimed- ‘What business have YOUÂ to write for one?!!’.. ‘Well’, I replied.. ‘I was born in India and I am a girl and I am named after a yesteryear’s bollywood actor. Do you really need more connection between me and Bollywood?’ She gave me a god-help-this-girl glare and set about her business once again. I decided it was time we had a section on the actors of yesteryears so people don’t forget the people who made our fathers and grandfathers smile and laugh and cry and made them name their daughters and granddaughters after them.
I start thus with the actor I was named after- Nalini Jaywant. She seems to have had caught the fancy of my Granddad more than just a little bit. Remembering her through one of her most famous songs Jeevan Ke Safar mein Raahi… The clip also contains a small prelude of the quintessential roothna-manana legacy of bolly between Nalini and her co-star Dev Saab. If you’ve seen it often times before, watch it once again for my sake —*flutters her eyes*—-.
