| Aruna Irani | |
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| Born | May 3, 1952 [1] Mumbai, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Actor, Film director |
Aruna Irani (Hindi: अरुणा ईरानी, Urdu: اَرُنا ایرانی) (born 3 May 1952) is an Indian actress. An accomplished actress and dancer of her time, Aruna Irani has acted in about 300 movies, with many memorable acting performances to her credit. Irani is the sister of film-maker Indra Kumar and actor Adi Irani (one who became her son in movie Beta).
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Aruna Irani was born in Mumbai, India into a Parsi family.
Aruna Irani made her debut in the movie Gunga Jumna (1961) at nine years old playing Azra's character. After doing several small roles in films like Jahanara (1964), Farz (1967), Upkar (1967) and Aaya Sawan Jhoomke (1969), and pairing with comedian Mehmood in films like Aulad (1968), Humjoli (1970), and Naya Zamana (1971), she finally shot to fame with her brilliant performance as an aggressive gypsy woman in the super hit Caravan (1971).
By that time, she was emotionally involved with Mehmood and did not focus fully on her career. Their relationship ruined her chances of getting the heroine's roles. Yet Mehmood gave her lead roles opposite the likes of Amitabh Bachchan and Vinod Mehra in the films that he made: Bombay To Goa (1972), Garam Masala (1972), and Do Phool (1973).
Success as a heroine eluded her, and the newer actors and actresses that she supported became stars while acting with her: Jeetendra in Farz (1967), Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia in Bobby (1973), Shabana Azmi in Fakira (film) (1976), Jayaprada in Sargam (1979), Kumar Gaurav in Love Story (1981), Sanjay Dutt in Rocky (1981).
She ended up doing vampish and supporting roles, mainly because her memorable performance in Caravan had typecast her. To her credit, Aruna Irani seriously took each role and delivered nice performances, thus endearing herself to filmmakers and creating a niche for herself. Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s she appeared in several supporting roles, notably Roti Kapada Aur Makaan (1974), Do Jhooth (1975), Khel Khel Mein (1975), Bhanwar (1976), Fakira (1976), Laila Majnu (1976), Sargam (1979), Qurbani (1980), Aas Paas (1980), Love Story (1981) and Kudrat (1981). She won her first Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for Pet Pyaar Aur Paap (1984).
In the late 1980s and 1990s Irani switched to playing motherly roles, notably in Beta (1992) for which she won her second Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award. She acted in the Kannada remake of the same film and the same role. She got very famous acting in many Gujarati and Marathi films and some way changed trend and played as main protagonist. Two of her Marathi films are Changu Mangu and Bol Baby Bol.
In her later career, Irani also swithced to television performing character roles in various serials. She also took up to direction and production of tele-serials like Mehndi Tere Naam Ki, Des Mein Niklla Hoga Chand, Vaidehi and more. [2]
Aruna Irani is married to film director Kuku Kohli.
A complete filmography is available at her IMDB entry
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