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Role
  
Film actress

Children
  
Sabia

Name
  
Qamar Sultana


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Nominations
  
Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress

Movies
  
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Ameeta, born Qamar Sultana, is an Indian actress.

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Early life

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Ameeta was born as Qamar Sultana on 11 April 1940 in Calcutta (now Kolkata) to actress Shakuntala Devi and Silvestar kolkay Ahmed. Show business ran in her family and well-known Pakistani actor Aslam Parvez was her maternal uncle. When she was aged one her father died and her mother moved to Bombay (now Mumbai) and where young Qamar did her schooling.

Beginning

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A fan of Madhubala, Ameeta was enacting her idol's sword fight from the movie 'Baadal' when she caught the eye of Lekhraj Bhakhri who signed her for his movie Thokar. This was her debut film in a side role where she was credited as Jayjaywanti. Qamar's debut movie as heroine was a 1953 release Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1954), directed by Vijay Bhatt. The screen name Ameeta made its appearance in this movie. The film failed but Ameeta kept on working in films like Amar Kirtan, Badal Aur Bijli, Baaghi Sardar and Indrasabha. But her career took a positive turn when she worked with her idol Madhubala in Shirin Farhad (1956). She was then chosen for lead roles in Abhimaan and Zamana.

Breakthrough

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The turning point in Ameeta's career though came when she became the protégé of Filmistan Studios' owner Tolaram Jalan who produced Tumsa Nahin Dekha (1957), as a vehicle for promoting Ameeta as a new star. Great care was taken with her make-up, wardrobe and lighting, to present her in the most flattering and advantageous way possible. Furthermore, much of the film's extensive publicity also centred on the actress. The film was a big success but Ameeta's thunder was stolen by the until then struggling Shammi Kapoor. This got her the female lead of Goonj Uthi Shehnai, a role originally intended for Asha Parekh, with whom she had acted with earlier in Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1954). The film starred a then up-and-coming Rajendra Kumar and an exceptional music score went on to become one of the top-grossing films of 1959. Here despite a mature and sensitive performance, Ameeta was overlooked and Kumar was given credit for the film's emphatic success.

Later work

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Although she fired up the careers of Shammi Kapoor and Rajendra Kumar with these hits, Ameeta could never capitalise on them and stardom never materialised.

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Further roles in multi-star films like Raakhi (1962) and the blockbuster Mere Mehboob (1963) did not help her career graph, even though she was nominated for a Filmfare award for the latter as Best Supporting Actress, and she now dropped to playing lead grade-B movies which though successful at the box office did not do much for her star status. By the mid-1960s she was playing negative and villainous characters in films like Rishte Naate (1965), and Aasra (1966). Worse still, she was seen in supporting roles to fledgling starlets Rajshree and Babita, in films like Around the World (1967) and Haseena Maan Jayegi (1968). After filming Haseena Maan Jayegi (1968) a disillusioned Ameeta left the film industry and settled into matrimony.

Personal life

After she retired from the film world she married and had a daughter, Sabeeha. Sabheeha tried her hand in Bollywood as a lead actress in Anokha Rishta (1986) and Khiladi (1990) which were big hits of respective years, however her career never took off. Sabeeha appeared in Qayamat Ki Raat (1992), before she too disappeared from the Hindi movie scene.

Awards

Ameeta was nominated for a Filmfare Award as Best Supporting Actress for Mere Mehboob (1962) but lost out to Shashikala for Gumrah(1963). She came out of seclusion only once to accept the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Cine & TV Artistes Association on 20 November 2005 and then disappeared again.

Filmography

Actress
1985
Zulm Ka Badla as
Devout Muslim
1973
Mera Shikar
1971
Kabhi Dhoop Kabhi Chhaon as
Rekha
1968
Haseena Maan Jayegi as
Laali
1967
Around the World as
Sheri
1966
Aasra as
Roopa
1966
Kunwari
1965
Hum Sab Ustad Hain as
Roopa
1965
Namaste Ji
1965
Rishte Naahte as
Roopa
1965
Saat Samundar Paar as
Princess Saroja
1964
Punar Milan as
Sona / Sundari
1964
Samson as
Laila
1963
Mere Mehboob as
Naseemara
1963
Mummy Daddy
1962
Rakhi as
Malti Chandra
1962
Maa Beta as
Reeta
1961
Chhote Nawab as
Roshan N. Hussain
1961
Main Aur Mera Bhai
1961
Piya Milan Ki Aas as
Naini
1961
Pyar Ki Dastan as
Kamla
1961
Teen Ustad as
Saroj
1961
Lucky Number as
Suman
1961
Payaase Panchhi as
Sheela Chaturvedi
1959
Aangan
1959
Goonj Uthi Shehnai as
Gopi
1959
Maine Jeena Seekh Liya
1959
Sawan as
Badli
1958
Raj Sinhasan
1958
Sanskar
1958
Hum Bhi Kuchh Kum Nahin
1957
Abhimaan as
Alka / Alaknanda Verma
1957
Bada Bhai as
Uma
1957
Dekh Kabira Roya as
Geeta
1957
Talaash
1957
Tumsa Nahin Dekha as
Meena
1957
Zamana
1956
Badal Aur Bijli
1956
Ham Sab Chor Hain as
Madam Fifi
1956
Shirin Farhad as
Shama
1955
Abe Hayat as
Rajkumari
1955
Munimji as
Bela

References

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