“Despite various setbacks, I reached the zenith of stardom in my movie-career,” B’Day girl Zeenat Aman

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“Despite various setbacks, I reached the zenith of stardom in my movie-career,” B’Day girl Zeenat Aman

Zestful Zeenat Aman ( popular nickname Zeenie-baby and also ‘Babusha’ ) who has an impressive range of landmark Hindi movies to her credit celebrates her 70th B’Day (November 19th) - Chaitanya Padukone

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But at heart she is still a seventeen year young, but zinda-dil emotional, sentimental yet feisty with an effervescent spirit..

As a senior film-journalist I have had the honour and privilege to know and interact with former beauty-queen (who was also tagged the ‘sex-symbol’) Zeenat Aman right from the mid-‘80s .

I still recall that when the style-icon Zeenat Aman gave birth to her first baby-boy-son during the mid-‘80s, I had given the exclusive front-page breaking news in Mumbai’s top tabloid newspaper ‘Mid-Day’ .

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The news-story headline which I had given was ‘Zeenie-baby gets a baba’ and I remember Zeenat had shared with me that “it was her dream come true ’.

Later, when Zeenat met me at the rehearsals of an event , she profusely thanked me for sharing her good news in the news-media, that too without any controversy.

When I authored a book ‘R D BurMania’. I gifted a copy of my book R D BurMania to Zeenat Aman ( the 'Dum Maro Dum' diva and 'Chura Liya Hai' glam-girl ) who has played the lead heroine in Highest Number. of Films with genius R D Burman’s amazing music scores !.

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Zeenie-baby who has also penned her personal tribute to Pancham-da in the same book, was simply delighted to get her copy.

The dazzling effect on the book cover is symbolic of R D Burman being the 'eternal guiding Star' to all composers & singers.

Always dignified and soft-spoken, the versatile model-actress Zeenat has acted in a wide range of movie-roles from ‘Hare Rama Hare Krishna’ to ‘Satyam Shivam Sundaram’ and ‘Insaaf Ka Taraazu’ to ‘Manoranjan ‘ and from ‘Don’ to ‘Roti Kapda Aur Makaan’, from ‘The Great Gambler ‘ to ‘Yaadon Ki Baraat’ and from ‘Laawaris’ to ‘Mahaan’ and from ‘Qurbani’ to ‘Shalimar’ (with international co-star artistes) .

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Defying her glam-image she dared to act as ‘Kasturba ‘ in a theatre-play titled ‘Dearest Bapu, Love Kasturba’ .

Once when Zeenat personally met me, she said, “ Although I have had several setbacks in my personal life and professional career, God has been kind to me and I am blessed with the power of resilience to bounce back with full force.

My loyal fans have always given me loads of love which in turn has helped me to rise and shine, “ enthused the articulate actress Zeenat who has acted in a Malayalam movie ‘Moksham’ and has a Scandinavian European foreign country (Norway) stamp released in recognition of her phenomenal contribution to Indian Cinema. Wishing you a long, healthy, cheerful active, creative life ahead –Zeenat-jee !

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