Meet Nafisa Ali, former beauty queen; married sports star, quit acting
Meet Nafisa Ali, former beauty queen; married sports star, quit acting
Meet former beauty queen Nafisa Ali. She got married to a sports star, R S Sodhi.
Nafisa Ali subsequently appeared in several Bollywood movies, including Yamla Pagla Deewana with Dharmendra, Major Sahab with Amitabh Bachchan, and Bewafaa, which also featured Akshay Kumar, Priyanka Chopra, and other actors. She also featured in Sooraj Barjatya’s Uunchai which featured Amitabh Bachchan, Boman Irani, Parineeti Chopra, and Neena Gupta.
Notwithstanding the star power, the movie’s box office performance was below average.She rose to the national level as a swimmer and was crowned Miss India. She worked as a radio host as well and fell in love with Colonel, the Arjun Awardee. The renowned actor left the industry like Bhagyashree, Namrata Shirodkar, and many others at the height of her success after marriage. She was compelled to move in with her husband’s friend’s family because her mother-in-law would not accept her after her marriage to a Hindu. Nafisa Ali. She and
RS Sodhi had an age difference of fourteen years. The two of them got married in Kolkata through registration before being married in Delhi according to Sikh rituals at Maharani Gayatri Devi’s home.
She made her debut alongside Shashi Kapoor in the 1979 released film ‘Junoon.’ She also embraced politics following a failed stint in Bollywood.
Nafisa Ali took Sanjay Dutt’s position in the election field. She ran for Lok Sabha in 2004 from south Kolkata but was not successful. She did, however, join the All India Trinamool Congress in October 2021 before the Goa Legislative Assembly election in 2022.
For the unversed, Nafisa Ali was diagnosed with stage 3 peritoneal cancer, a disease that originates in the thin layer of tissue lining the belly.
The veteran actor and politician disclosed that she also has a skin condition called leukoderma in 2020.
News Edit KV Raman
