Farrukh Jaffar

Farrukh Jaffar

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Emerging from a modest village in Jaunpur district, she completed her schooling locally before earning a degree at Lucknow University and entered broadcasting in 1963 as one of the pioneering announcers for Vividh Bharati in Lucknow. A late-stage shift to cinema occurred at age 49, when she appeared as the mother of Rekha’s character in Muzaffar Ali’s Umrao Jaan, marking the start of a sporadic bu…

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources

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