Tun Tun
1923–2003
Uma Devi Khatri sang before she acted - she was a playback singer with Naushad and had a hit with Afsana Likh Rahi Hoon in 1947 - and then asked him for comic roles and became Tun Tun, the first woman comedian Hindi cinema had.
Babul, Aar Paar, Mr. & Mrs. 55, Pyaasa, Namak Halaal. She worked for forty years and the name she took stuck so completely that it became a Hindi word for a plump person, which she minded.
Dates and credits from Wikidata.
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- C.I.D. (1956) no copy found
- Ganga Ki Lahren (1964) no copy found
- Kabita (1977) no copy found
- Kamla (1985) no copy found
- Shikari (1963) no copy found
- Vir Mangdavalo (1976) no copy found