Google Doodle pays tribute to 'Fearless Nadia', India's queen of stunts
Evans had shocked and impressed her fans with her high-voltage and fearless stunt performances in Bollywood in the 1930s and 1940s.
Google Doodle on Monday paid tribute to Fearless Nadia on her 110th birth anniversary reminding everyone of the daredevil woman.
Born as Mary Ann Evans in Australia, she came to India when she was 5 years old.
Athletically inclined, Evans trained herself in horse riding, gymnastics, tennis, tap dance and ballet during her stay in the North-West Frontier Province.
Nadia came to Bombay at the age of five when her father was transferred to India but had to move to Peshawar after the untimely death of her father.
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Nadia, later, toured India as a theatre artist. She is most remembered for her role in the 1935 film Hunterwali, which takes the title of being one of the earliest female-centric films that was churned out by the Indian subcontinent.
She married Homi Wadia, a filmmaker and producer but continued to work in films by performing her daring stunts even risking her life many times. They introduced her to Hindi films and she found roles in Desh Deepak and Noor-e-Yaman before getting her big break in Hunterwali.
Her punchline was - "I'll try anything once!" and she did. The film went on to become a huge box office success.
One would think that Indian audience would not be pleased on seeing a white woman as the rescuer in movies at a time when the freedom struggle was at its peak, but Nadia proved to be an instant hit. Apart from Hunterwali, Pahadi Kanya, Diamond Queen, and Lutaru Lalna are some of the films she starred in. Nadia breathed her last in 1996 in Mumbai.
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