New Delhi:
Born in Banaras and considered ugly, the girl became the most successful star of Hindi cinema. He was given the title of dance empire. She introduced Hindi cinema to the dance and took cinema from her dancing skill to the next level. She received several awards in view of her contribution to the sensma industry. Later, when he was given the Padma Bhushan Award, he rejected it. Demand for Bharat Ratna for himself. Being ugly in childhood, this dancer was given to the maid working in his house. How did this girl become a cinema dancer?
We are talking about the successful dancer and actress Sitara Devi of Hindi cinema. Sitara Devi was born on 8 November 1920 in Kolkata on the day of Dhanteras. She was named Dhanalakshmi in honor of the goddess of good luck. Sitara Devi was from the Brahmin family of Banaras. His family later settled in Kolkata. His father Sukhdev Maharaj was a Sanskrit scholar and taught Kathak. His dance style included both Banaras and Lucknow Gharana, which was a combination of ‘Naz’, ‘Nakhre’ and ‘Nazakat’. When the star was eleven years old. Then his family came to Mumbai. After reaching Mumbai, Sitara Devi performed Rabindranath Tagore, Sarojini Naidu and Sir Kwasji Jahangir at Atia Begum Palace. Ravindra Nath Tagore was very impressed with him and he called him for dance in several events. When she was twelve years old, she started performing dancing in films. These include the 1940 film Usha Haran, Nagina, who came in 1951 and Roti and Watan in 1938. In the 1957 Mother India, she performed Holi dance in disguise as a man. After this film, she stopped dancing in films.
Please tell that the life of Sitara Devi was full of struggle. According to reports, due to not being beautiful, the parents of Sitara Devi gave her to the workman working in the house. But later Kamwali returned the star. He had to face a lot of criticism in the society due to dancing. And people called him Tawaif. However, his dance in the cinema industry was highly appreciated. Rabindranath Tagore awarded Sitara Devi the title of ‘Nritya Empress’.
It is said that she was married at the age of 8, but she wanted to focus on her dance education. So they broke this marriage. Later, while working in the cinema industry, he married 16 years older than him and already married to married actor Nazir Ahmed Khan. The star had changed her religion to marry Nazir .. Both of them were partners in Hind Pictures Studio. The star was not getting money to work in the studio and her husband was becoming un -bunned. At the same time, she came close to K. Asif, nephew of her husband Nazir Ahmed Khan. Sitara Devi left her husband in the year 1944 and married K. Asif. Just after two years of marriage to Sitara Devi, Asif got married to Sitara Devi’s friend. The patience of Sitara Devi’s patience was then broken. Jab Asif got a third marriage to Dilip Kumar’s sister.
After this, Sitara Devi left K Asif and then she met a Gujarati businessman Pratap Barot. Gradually this meeting turned into love and Stara Devi married Pratap Barot. Sitara Devi also had a son from this marriage, but this marriage also could not last long and both of them got separated. Ranjit Barot, son of Sitara Devi, is a well -known musician. He has been an Associate of AR Rahman. Sitara Devi was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award and Padma Shri Award for contributing to dance and art. Later, when Sitara Devi was awarded the Padma Bhushan Award, she turned down her. According to news agency ANI, Sitara Devi had demanded Bharat Ratna for herself by rejecting Padmabhushan.
Sitara Devi was also a skilled dancer of many other styles of dance, including Bharatanatyam and many forms of folk dances of India. He also learned western dance including Russian ballet and. He taught Kathak dance to Bollywood actresses like Madhubala, Rekha, Mala Sinha and Kajol. Sitara Devi, who performed four marriages, left the world on 25 November 2014 at the age of 94 after battling the disease for a long time.