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Sudha Bhuchar

Lalit Mohan Joshi

Perminder Khatkar

Great Lives: Sudha Bhuchar chooses the life of Zohra Sehgal

Sudha Bhuchar chooses the life of Zohra Sehgal

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Playwright and actress Sudha Bhuchar nominates the life of actor Zohra Sehgal.

Actress and playwright Sudha Bhuchar chooses one of Bollywood’s first great international stars, Zohra Sehgal. From 2016.

She was known as 'the grand old lady of Indian cinema' who starred in many Bollywood films famous in India, but not at first in Britain. We got to know her best in her later years when Zohra Sehgal starred in the TV series – 'The Jewel in The Crown' and films such as 'Bend it like Beckham'. When interviewed aged 101 and asked what she had enjoyed most in her life she said 'Sex, sex and more sex '.

Nominating this week's Great Life is actress and playwright Sudha Bhuchar who along with the expert witness, Film Historian Lalit Mohan Joshi, tell the presenter Matthew Parris, how Sehgal broke boundaries to become the first Indian actor to have an international career. 

The producer is Perminder Khatkar.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016.

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