Veteran actress Tabassum no more

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Popular and veteran actress Tabassum known for her work as a child artiste in several Hindi classics films and also as a host of popular Doordarshan talk show ‘Phool Khile Hain Gulshan Gulshan’, died after suffering a cardiac arrest on 19 November 2022.

Born in 1944 in Mumbai to Ayodhyanath Sachdev and Asghari Begum, Tabassum started her career as a child artiste with the 1947 movie ‘Nargis’. At that time, she was known as ‘Baby Tabassum’ in the industry. She also played a minor role in the 1960 historical epic ‘Mughal-e-Azam’, starring Prithviraj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar and Madhubala.