Zarina Wahab
Born	India
Occupation	Actor

Zarina Wahab is an Indian actress and former model, who was critically acclaimed for starring roles, such as in Chit Chor and Gopal Krishna in the 1970s.

Like actress Waheeda Rehman before her, Zarina came from a Muslim family in the Southern state of Andhra Pradesh. She was born in Vishakapatnam and is fluent in Telugu and Hindi. She was trained at FTII. Filmmaker Raj Kapoor was unimpressed with her look, when he met her at FTII. So Zarina worked on her appearance and attended film parties and events, and the industry people took notice and decided to cast her in films.^[1] She was usually cast as the middle-class, natural beauty. She had a major hit film in Basu Chatterjee's Chit Chor (1976). She also starred in Gharonda (1977). She earned a Filmfare nomination as Best Actress for this role.^[2] She has acted in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam films, and has become fluent in Malayalam.

Wahab met her husband actor Aditya Pancholi on Kalan Ka Tika.^[3] They married in 1986 and have a daughter, Sana and son Suraj. Her husband is almost 5-years younger than she, and their turbulent marriage has been in the gossip columns, regarding her husband's temper and rumors of infidelity.^[4] Yet, their marriage persevered and they are still together.^[5]

Wahab's roots in Andhra Pradesh remain strong, as she prefers Telugu films, and has encouraged daughter Sana to start out acting in a South Indian film, the way she had in a Telugu film Gajula Kistayya (1975) with Krishna (actor).^[6] Her daughter Sana Pancholi has tried her hand at acting in 2006.^[7] Wahab currently plays older roles in television serials.^[8]

She made a comeback to Malayalam in the movie Calendar, which released in 2009. She is slated to appear in the 2010 release, My Name Is Khan as the mother of Rizwan Khan (Shah Rukh Khan).^[9]

Contents 1 Filmography 2 Television 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Director	Language	Notes
1974	Ishq Ishq Ishq	Prema	Dev Anand	Hindi	Also featuring Dev Anand, Zeenat Aman and Kabir Bedi
1976	Chitchor	Geeta P. Choudry	Basu Chatterjee	Hindi	Also featuring Amol Palekar
1977	Gharaonda	The Nest	Bhimsain	Hindi	Also featuring Amol Palekar
1977	Agar... If	Anju A. Agarwal	Esmayeel Shroff	Hindi	Also featuring Amol Palekar and Kader Khan
1978	Tumhare Liye	Rajnartaki	Basu Chatterjee	Hindi	Also featuring Sanjeev Kumar and Vidya Sinha
1978	Madanolsavam	Elizabeth	N. Sankaran Nair	Malayalam	Also featuring Kamal Hassan and Jayan
1979	Sawan Ko Aane Do	???	Kanak Mishra	Hindi	Also featuring Arun Govil and Amrish Puri
1981	Palangal	Usha	Bharathan	Malayalam	Also featuring Nedumudi Venu and Bharath Gopi
1982	Sara Varsham	Savitha	S. Babu	Malayalam	Also featuring Sukumaran and Mammootty
1982	Enthino Pookunna Pookal	Savithri	Gopinath Babu	Malayalam	Also featuring Mohanlal and Mammootty
1984	Manasariyathe	Sindhu	Soman Ambatt	Malayalam	Also featuring Mohanlal and Nedumudi Venu
1985	Punnaram Cholli Cholli		Priyadarshan	Malayalam	Also featuring Rahman and Sreenivasan
2009	Calendar	Thankam Joseph	Mahesh	Malayalam	Also featuring Prithviraj Sukumaran and Navya Nair
2010	My Name Is Khan		Karan Johar	Hindi	Also featuring Shahrukh Khan and Kajol

[edit] Television

Maayka (Zee Tv soap) as Mohini Malhotra (returns after a period of time who says she was rescued, the mother of Soni, Mahi, Raji and Prince.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• IMDB

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