Farah Naaz | |
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 Farah in November 2019 | |
| Born | Farah Naaz Hashmi 9 December 1968 Hyderabad, Telangana, India |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1984–2005 |
| Spouse(s) | |
| Children | Fateh Randhawa (with Vindu Dara Singh) |
| Relatives | Tabu (sister) Shabana Azmi (aunt) |
Farah Naaz Hashmi commonly credited as Farah is a leading Bollywood actress of the mid 1980s and early 1990s. She is the elder sister of Tabu.
Farha made her debut in "Faasle" in 1985 under the Yash Chopra films banner. She was one of the prominent actresses in Bollywood in the late eighties and early nineties. She was paired with Prosenjit Chatterjee in 1989 Bengali movie "Aamar Tumi". Farha's landmark films were Naseeb Apna Apna (1986), Imaandaar (1987), Woh Phir Aayegi, Naqab (1989), Yateem (1988), Baap Numbri Beta Dus Numbri (1990), Begunaah (1991), Bhai Ho To Aisa (1995) and Sautela Bhai (1996).She is today remembered for her three films with Rajesh Khanna.
She retired from acting in 1996 after her first marriage, though she later did a few television serials. She worked with almost all of the top actors of her time, including Rajesh Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Sunny Deol, Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Aamir Khan, Mithun Chakraborty, Govinda and Aditya Pancholi. Farah was born to Jamal Ali Hashmi and Rizwana in a Hyderabadi Muslim family.[3][4] Her parents divorced soon after. Her mother was a school-teacher and her maternal grandparents were retired professors who ran a school. Her grandfather, Mohammed Ahsan, was a professor of Mathematics, and her grandmother was a professor of English Literature.
She is the niece of Shabana Azmi, Tanvi Azmi and Baba Azmi and the elder sister of Tabu. Farah married actor Vindu Dara Singh in 1996, with whom she has a son Fateh Randhawa (b.1997). The couple divorced in 2002. She later remarried fellow Bollywood and television actor Sumeet Saigal in 2003.
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