Meena Shorey

Actress, 'the Lara Lappa girl' (1921-1989)

Meena Shorey is in the cast of this film early in a career that became, for a few years, one of the most recognisable in the industry: the song Lara Lappa from Ek Thi Ladki (1949) attached itself to her so completely that she was known by it. She married the director Roop K. Shorey and moved with him to Lahore after partition; the marriage ended, her career did not survive it, and she died in Lahore in 1989 in poverty.