Saira Banu was a fey beauty, as delicate as filigreed lace. But the painted talons she flashed on screen were also a symbol of her tenacity and spirit. In a male-dominated film industry ...
Heroines in earlier generations got into a saree as dexterously as skirts and pants. Asha Parekh, Saira Banu, Sadhana and Sharmila Tagore ruled the 1960s in slacks and saris. In the 1970s ...