“Esther Victoria Abraham” known as Pramila was born on Saturday 30 December 1916 (aged 90 at time of death) in Calcutta, British India (now Kolkata, India). She did her schooling at Calcutta Girls’ High School and then shifted to St. James’s School because of its reasonable fee structure. He then went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cambridge University. Immediately after graduation, he began teaching kindergarten in Talmud Torah Boys.
Esther Victoria Abraham in her youth
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Physical appearance
Height (approx): 5′5″
Weight (approx): 60 kg
Hair color: dark brown
Eye Color: Black
family
Esther Victoria Abraham belonged to a Jewish family from Baghdad who settled around the Indian Ocean and the sea trading ports of South China.
parents and siblings
Esther was the daughter of Reuben Abraham, a Jewish businessman living in Kolkata, by his second wife Matilda Issac, a Jewish lady from Karachi. Esther had three half-brothers and six siblings.
husband and children
Esther Victoria Abraham first married Maniklal Dungi at the age of seventeen. The couple had a son together. However, their marriage lasted less than a year. She married a second time in 1939, at the age of 22, to Syed Hasan Ali Zaid, known as “Kumar”. The couple had three sons named Akbar, Asghar and Haider, and a daughter named Naqi. Haider has been in films and wrote the screenplay for Jodaa Akbar (2008). Naki was a model and married a Gujarati businessman. Later, she lived with her five children in India after her husband moved to Pakistan with his rudimentary family from Lucknow.
religion
Esther was Jewish.
Career
movie
At the age of 17, Esther left her home in Kolkata and worked as a dancer in a traveling Parsi theater company in Mumbai. He later played daring stunt roles in around 30 films, making his debut in ‘Bhikarin’ (1935). He produced many hit films including Ulti Ganga (1942),
Esther’s film Ulti Ganga (1942)
“Bijli” (1939), “Basant” (1942), “King of the Jungle” (1959), “Bahana” (1960) and “Bade Nawab Sahib” (1944).
Bade Nawab Saheb Movie Poster (1994)
His last performance as an actor was in the movie “Murad” in 1964. However, Esther played the role of a grandmother even after leaving the industry and was last seen in the 2006 film ‘Quest’.
Esther with Quest director Anmol Palekar
First Miss India
At the age of 31, Esther Victoria Abraham was crowned as the first Miss India pageant in 1947 by the fourth Prime Minister of India, Morarji Desai. She was pregnant with her fifth child when she became the owner of this title. In an interview he said,
The title was fine – it didn’t mean much to me then. It became important only after 20 years.”
After winning Miss India, she was a popular face in many magazines of the 30s and 40s. he added,
At that time it (Miss India pageant) was a more popular face pageant and since I was on the cover of most magazines in those days, I was chosen. In those days, the rules and regulations were not yet formally established.”
Esther Victoria Abraham
Producer
In 1942, Escher and her husband Zaidi founded their own production company called Silver Productions. He started raising funds for his films and has produced 16 films under his banner Silver Productions. She was the first successful female film producer. He was a constant traveler to promote his films.
Poster of the movie “Nasibi”.
confrontations
Esther Victoria Abraham was arrested by the then Prime Minister Morarji Desai for giving the impression of a Pakistani spy for her regular visits to Pakistan. However, it has been confirmed that she is traveling to promote her films.
Awards, honors, achievements
- Pramila won the first Miss India pageant in 1947.
Net worth
His property amounted to 3 million dollars.
death
On August 6, 2006, Esther Victoria Abraham breathed her last at the age of 90 in Mumbai.
Facts/Trivia
- Esther was good at studies and sports. His master’s game was hockey, for which he won many prizes.
- 20 years after winning Miss India, Esther’s daughter Naqi won the same title in 1967, making her the first mother-daughter duo.
- Esther converted to Islam and changed her name to “Shabnam Begum Ali” after her second marriage to Zaid.
- His pictures were displayed on the walls of the Israeli Embassy in Delhi to establish a unique cultural bond between India and Israel.
Esther’s pictures are displayed in Delhi
Categories: Bollywood
Source: dienchau2.edu.vn
