Parekh, Asha

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Name
Parekh, Asha Gender: F
born on 2 October 1942 at 11:30 (= 11:30 AM )
Place Mumbai, India, 18n58, 72e50
Timezone IDT h6e30 (is daylight saving time)
Data source
Bio/autobiography
Rodden Rating B
Collector: Seth
Astrology data s_su.18.gif s_libcol.18.gif 08°22' s_mo.18.gif s_cancol.18.gif 05°54 Asc.s_sagcol.18.gif 02°43'



Asha Parekh (on Raveena's NDTV chat show, 2012)
photo: BollywoodHungama, license cc-by-3.0

Biography

Indian Bollywood actress, director, and producer. She was one of the top stars in Hindi films from 1959 to 1973. In 1992, she was honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government of India. Parekh is regarded as one of the most successful and influential Hindi movie actresses of all time.

Parekh has remained unmarried, claiming that her reputation of being unapproachable made people hesitate in asking for her hand in marriage. Today, Parekh concentrates on her dance academy Kara Bhavan and the Asha Parekh Hospital in Santa Cruz, Mumbai, named in her honour because of her many humanitarian contributions.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Source Notes

The original entry had a speculative time of 9pm, with Ashish Seth quoting a news article: "Born on October 2, 1942 in a middle-class family, Asha Parekh wouldn't have had a normal and safe birth but for her maternal uncle. Her mother Sudha, a social worker of repute, was participating in a rally connected to the Quit India Movement on that day. So engrossed was she that she had overlooked that she was very much in the family way. It was her brother who forced Sudha to return home. That same night, baby Asha was born" ("Spice" by Ashish Mitra, 27 Feb. 2009 [1]).

On 3 July 2017 the birth time was changed to 11:30am, with Seth quoting from Asha Parekh, The Hit Girl, An Autobiography by Khalid Mohamed (Om Books International, 2017), p. 43: "I arrived on October 2, 1942 at 11:30 a.m., a bouncy eight lbs baby..."

Categories

  • Family : Relationship : Married late/never (Never)
  • Family : Parenting : Kids none
  • Lifestyle : Financial : Philanthropist
  • Vocation : Entertainment : Actor/ Actress (Bollywood)
  • Vocation : Entertain/Music : Dancer/ Teacher
  • Vocation : Entertain/Business : Director
  • Vocation : Entertain/Business : Entertain Producer