Anita Ayoob (also Known as Anita Ayub and Aneeta Ayoob) is a Pakistani actress and model. She appeared in Bollywood films and Lollywood films also working in television dramas and advertisements in the 1980s and 1990s.[3]
Anita Ayoob | |
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| Born | Anita Ayoob 17 September 1970 |
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| Education | University of Karachi |
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| Years active | 1987 - 2010 |
| Spouse | Subak Majeed (husband) |
| Children | Shazer (son) |
| Parent | Mumtaz Ayub (mother)[1][2] |
| Relatives | Amber Ayub (sister) |
Early life
editAnita was born in Karachi at Pakistan and she studied from a Private Girls College and graduated from University of Karachi with a master's degree in English literature.[4] Anita's family were close friends with Waheed Murad's family.[4] She was discovered by a modeling agent to model for advertising and she agreed.[4]
Anita also went to India to study acting and was studying acting in Roshan Taneja School of Acting at Mumbai there she was trained in acting by Roshan Taneja.[4]
Career
editShe started working as a model in her early teens and also worked in Hindi and Urdu films.[5][6] In 1987 she made her debut as an actress in drama Gardish which was aired on PTV then she worked in drama Hasina-E-Alam with Rizwan Wasti, Amber Ayub and Rabia Noreen.[7]
In 1993 she went to India for a commercial shooting and there Dev Anand, who was looking for a new actress, saw her commercial and he cast her for his film Pyaar Ka Tarana.[4] She made her Bollywood debut in 1993 with film Pyaar Ka Tarana, which was written and directed by Dev Anand the film received averaged reviews but later turned out to be successful at the box office.[4]
Then she was offered a lead role in film Bulandi with Salman Khan before it was called Nihatta and then she completed some shooting scenes with Salman Khan but after sometime she refused to work in the movie because director M.R. Shahjahan made many changes and she couldn't accept it so she left it then Somy Ali was cast in the lead role instead she signed a film with Dev Anand.[4]
Later she worked with Dev Anand again in film Gangster in 1995 which was a box office success.[4][8]
As a model, she represented her country in Miss Asia Pacific International beauty pageant held in Manila, Philippines in 1989.[9]
She had a long and successful career in India and Pakistan after appearing in some movies and she also worked in popular dramas in Pakistan which aired on PTV and then she moved to New York and settled there with her family.[10][11][12][13][14][15]
In New York she hosted morning shows and guest shows on AT&T TV.[4]
Personal life
editAyoob married Saumil Patel, an Indian Gujarati businessman in 1995.[4] After her marriage, she moved to New York. She has a son named Shazer with Saumil Patel. After her divorce with Patel, she married Subak Majeed, a Pakistani businessman. She also has a half brother and actress Amber Ayub is her sister.
Filmography
editTelevision series
edit| Year | Title | Role | Network |
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| 1987 | Gardish | Shahida | PTV[7] |
| 1992 | Hasina-E Alam | Naila | PTV[7] |
| 1992 | Eid Flight | Nida | PTV |
| 1993 | Yes Sir, No Sir | Herself | PTV |
| 1995 | Hip Hip Hurray Season 1 | Herself | STN |
| 1995 | Doosra Raasta | Simi | PTV |
| 1997 | Waqt Ka Aasman | Marilee | PTV |
| 1998 | Yeh Jahan | Fariha | PTV |
Film
edit| Year | Film | Language |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Pyaar Ka Tarana | Hindi |
| 1994 | ||
| Sub Ke Baap | Urdu | |
| Chalti Ka Naam Gari | Punjabi | |
| Maria | Urdu | |
| 1995 | Gangster | Hindi |
Awards and nominations
edit| Year | Award | Category | Result | Title | Ref. |
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| 1995 | STN Awards | Best New Talent | Won | Hip Hip Hurray Season 1 | [16] |
Controversies
editIn 1989, she participated in the Miss Asia Pacific International beauty pageant, where she made a controversial remark on polygamy during the contest in Manila, Philippines. She was quoted as saying, "Muslim women should be allowed to have four spouses, just as Muslim men can take four wives at any one time." After her statement, she was forced to withdraw from the contest. She was accused of preaching immorality by outraged Pakistanis. In January 1989, 22 lawyers demanded that she should clarify her statement. A case was filed against her in Pakistan, terming her alleged statement "illegal and immoral".[17][9]
Ayoob has been reported to have a close association with Dawood Ibrahim.[11] In 1995, producer Javed Siddique was allegedly shot dead by members of Dawood's gang after he refused to cast Anita in a Hindi film.[15]
References
edit- ^ "Chowk: : Rise and Fall of a Silver Screen Hero". Archived from the original on 25 May 2011. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link). Rise and fall of a silver screen hero. Retrieved 10 September 2008. - ^ Omair Alavi (26 November 2006). "The man who changed cinema". Dawn. Pakistan. Archived from the original on 1 February 2009. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- ^ "Anita Ayub's back". Dawn. 4 July 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "مشہور ماڈل و اداکارہ انیتا ایوب کا انٹرویو". Weekly Nigar Karachi (Golden Jubilee Number): 177. 1999.
- ^ Mandal, Suchayan (29 June 2015). "Mafia wars of heart". Business Insider.
- ^ Bhattacharya, Rohit (11 August 2015). "10 Times Bollywood Actors Crossed Paths With The Underworld". ScoopWhoop.
- ^ a b c "Shocking! From Dev Anand's Heroine to Controversy: THIS actress linked to Dawood, accused of being a Pakistani spy, the producer who rejected her, tragically shot". Telly Chakkar. 20 January 2024.
- ^ "Anita Ayub". Nettv4u.
- ^ a b Asiaweek, Volume 19, 1993]
- ^ "Cancelled". India Today. 15 December 1993.
- ^ a b Jha, Shefali (7 January 2020). "Mamta Kulkarni to Monica Bedi: Actresses with underworld connection". International Business Times.
She later quit Bollywood and moved to New York over visa issues.
- ^ Saher (7 January 2012). "Pakistani Stars Troubled In India". Fashion Central.
Anita Ayub is another controversial character who was blamed to be Pakistani spy and was involved in Bombay blast. Even spending a long and successful career she was forcefully sent out by the orthodox shiv sena.
- ^ Srinivasan, V S (18 May 1998). "Jinxed!". Rediff.com.
Worse was the case of Anita Ayub, another Pakistani who had hoped to make it big in Bollywood. Unfortunately, her sister was caught on the India-Pakistan border along with a man with a string of espionage cases against him. Anita, who had exposed her physique generously in a Dev Anand film, was taken away for questioning, her passport was impounded and she was warned in the nastiest possible terms that she couldn't leave the country.
- ^ Mir, Amir (16 September 2006). "Row over bikini contestant rages". Gulf News.
- ^ a b Sen, Somit (20 February 2005). "Girlfriend: Smokescreens for mafia". The Times of India.
- ^ "ہپ ہپ ہارے ایوارڈز جیتنے والوں کی فہرست". STN. 6 October 2023.
- ^ Andrew Rippin (1993). Muslims: The contemporary period. Taylor & Francis. pp. 105, 104. ISBN 9780415045285.
External links
edit- Anita Ayoob at IMDb
- Aneeta Ayoob Exclusive, an interview on Lehren