Nirupa Roy is famous for her character roles which were always appreciated by the audience. She is one such actress who always made her presence felt on the screen even when she played mere character roles. Some of her roles have become cliché and which are remembered for long. She had played the role of mother to many of the actors of the Bollywood and so she was fondly remembered as ‘Mother of all times’!
In year 1946, she along with her husband Kamal Roy, responded to an advertisement in a Gujarati newspaper about opportunity to work in the movies. Nirupa Roy started working in Gujarati movies first and then in Hindi movies. She worked with legends like Bharat Bhushan, Balraj Sahni and Ashok Kumar. She had played mostly the role of mother in many Hindi movies and the movie Deewar was the one where she played the famous mother of Amitabh Bachchan and Shashi Kapoor. Her roles were heart-felt and her acting made the audience cry. Nirupa Roy was called as ‘queen of misery’. In her 50 years of career, she had acted in nearly 275 movies in movies and she had won many awards and recognitions. Some of her famous movies are Waqt, Gopi, Ram aur Sham, Muqaddar ka Sikandar, Amar Akbar Anthony, Deewar and many more.
Personal Life
Kokila changed her name to Nirupa when she started acting in the movies. With support of her husband she started her career in the movies successfully. She had two sons Yogesh and Kiran. She was died of cardiac arrest in Mumbai on 13th October 2004.
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- Occupation: Actress
- Worked on : Movies
- Age: 74 Years
- Date of Birth: 4 January 1931
- Place of Birth: Valsad, Gujarat, India
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- Gender: Female
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- Religion: Hinduism
- Nationality: Indian
- Married: Yes
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- Father’s name : Kishorechandra Bulsara
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- Children : Yogesh, Kiran (Sons)
- Boyfriend/Spouse: Kamal Roy (husband)