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RIP Zohra Sehgal, 1912-2014: A friend and lifelong fan pays tribute to 'the begum of peerless chutzpah'

Actress Zohra Sehgal has passed away at the age of 102 Born as Sahibzadi Zohra Begum Mumtazullah Khan, she started out as an actor with Chetan Anand’s Neecha Nagar. She played Shah Rukh Khan’s grandmother in Dil Se, and Amitabh Bachchan’s mother in Cheeni Kum. I have always referred to Zohraji as ammi, because she pampered me while I visited the sets where she would shoot for my father’s films. […]