Sharmila Tagore

ABOUT SHARMILA TAGORE

Filmfare and National Film Award-winning actress who starred in films like Aradhana and Mausam.

She attended St. John's Diocesan Girls' Higher Secondary School, and made her film debut in 1959's Apur Sansar.

She was chosen as an UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in December 2005.

The poet Rabindranath Tagore was her great-great-grandfather.

Her first film, Apur Sansar, was directed by iconic Indian director Satyajit Ray .