About Zarina Wahab

Zarina Wahab is an Indian actor and former model, who was critically acclaimed for starring roles, such as in Chit Chor and Gopal Krishna in the 1970s. Like actress Waheeda Rehman before her, Zarina came from a Muslim family in the Southern state of Andhra Pradesh. She was born in Vishakapatnam and is fluent in Telugu and Hindi. She was trained at FTII. Filmmaker Raj Kapoor was unimpressed with her look, when he met her at FTII. So Zarina worked on her appearance and attended film parties and events, and the industry people took notice and decided to cast her in films.[1] She was usually cast as the middle-class, natural beauty. She had a major hit film in Basu Chatterjee\'s Chit Chor (1976). She also starred in Gharonda (1977). She earned a Filmfare nomination as Best Actress for this role.[2] She has acted in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam films, and has become fluent in Malayalam.