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![]() Nagma in September 2015 | |
Born | Nandita Arvind Morarjii 25 December 1974 Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, India |
Other names | Nagma Sadanah |
Alma mater | Mumbai University (B. Com) |
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Years active | 1990–2008 (actress) 2004–present (politician) |
Political party | Indian National Congress |
Relatives | Roshini (half-sister) Jyothika (half-sister) Suriya (brother-in-law) |
Nagma Arvind Morarji[1] (born Nandita Arvind Morarji; 25 December 1974) is an Indian politician and former actress. She was a popular lead actress in the 1990s. She made her cinematic debut in the film Baaghi opposite Salman Khan in 1990. It was Hindi cinema's seventh highest-grossing film of the year.[2] She is known for her roles in films like Gharana Mogudu (1992), King Uncle (1993), Suhaag (1994), Kadhalan (1994), Baashha (1995) and Lal Baadshah (1999). She began her acting career in Bollywood. Nagma has acted in a broad range of films in India's languages predominantly in Telugu, Hindi, Tamil and Bhojpuri films and has also additionally appeared in several other regional language films such as Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Punjabi Marathi.