Nirupa Roy biography
Date of birth : 1931-01-04
Date of death : 2004-10-13
Birthplace : Valsad, Gujarat,India
Nationality : Indian
Category : Arts and Entertainment
Last modified : 2011-10-06
Credited as : Actress, Hindi,
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Nirupa Roy was born as Kokila Kishorechandra Bulsara in Valsad, Gujarat.
She was married to Kamal Roy when she was 15 and moved to Mumbai. They have a son and a daughter. She was very friendly with actress Shyama.
She died, after having a cardiac arrest, in Mumbai on 13 October 2004 at the age of 73.
In 1946, Roy and her husband responded to an advertisement in a Gujarati paper looking for actors. She was selected and started her acting career with the Gujarati film Ranakdevi. The same year she acted in her first Hindi film, Amar Raj. One of her popular films was Do Bigha Zameen (1953). She largely played mythological characters in the films of the 1940s and 50s. Her image of a goddess was very strong and people would visit her home and seek her blessings.
Among her co-stars were Trilok Kapoor, Bharat Bhushan, Balraj Sahni and Ashok Kumar.
In the 1970s, her roles as mother to the characters played by Amitabh Bachchan made her name synonymous to the impoverished suffering mother. Her role in Deewar (1975) and its dialogues with reference to a mother and son are used as clichés. She often lost her kids in her movies and was given the worst babysitter award in MTV Fully Faltoo awards (a parody of the Filmfare Awards).
Her son is Kiran, who was married to U.S.-born Una. Known to be a very dominating woman, Roy was very close to her son but not to her daughter-in-law. She had problems on the homefront. Although Nirupa denied these charges, it eventually led to a divorce between Kiran and Una.
Awards:
1955 - Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award, Munimji
1961 - Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award, Chhaya
1961 - BFJA Best Actress in Supporting Role, Chhaya
1964 - Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award, Shehnaai
2003 - Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award
