The
latest
Google
Doodle
commemorative
logo
pays
tribute
to
yesteryear
actress
Nargis
Dutt
on
her
86th
birthday
today.
A
drawing
of
the
late
actress
holding
her
dupatta
with
both
hands
is
featured
in
the
place
of
the
Google
logo.
Nargis,
whose
real
name
was
Fatima
Rashid,
was
born
on
June
1,
1929.
She
made
her
screen
debut
as
a
child
in
Talash-E-Haq
in
1935,
but
her
acting
career
began
in
1942
with
Tamanna.
During
a
career
from
the
1940s
to
the
1960s,
Nargis
appeared
in
numerous
commercially
successful
as
well
as
critically
appreciated
films,
many
of
which
featured
her
alongside
actor
and
filmmaker
Raj
Kapoor.
One
of
her
best-known
roles
was
that
of
Radha
in
the
Academy
Award-nominated
Mother
India
(1957),
a
performance
that
won
her
Best
Actress
trophy
at
the
Filmfare
Awards.
In
1958,
Nargis
married
her
Mother
India
co-star,
actor
Sunil
Dutt,
and
left
the
film
industry.
She
would
appear
infrequently
in
films
during
the
1960s.
Some
of
her
films
of
this
period
include
the
drama
Raat
Aur
Din
(1967),
for
which
she
was
given
the
inaugural
National
Film
Award
for
Best
Actress.
Nargis
died
in
1981
of
pancreatic
cancer,
a
few
days
before
her
son
Sanjay
Dutt
made
his
debut
in
Hindi
films.
In
1982,
the
Nargis
Dutt
Memorial
Cancer
Foundation
was
established
in
her
memory.
The
award
for
best
feature
film
on
national
integration
in
the
annual
National
Film
Awards
ceremony
is
called
the
Nargis
Dutt
Award
in
her
honour.