![]() ![]() ![]() After her marriage to actor Rajan Haksar, she was slotted into character roles and then to villainous or comedian roles. Although she acted in the superhit Punjabi film Lachchi, she was relegated to play Dilip Kumar's sister in Ghar ki Izzat (1948). Actor Chandramohan recommended her to producers. She started off as a child artist in Khazanchi (1941), under the screen name Manorama (given by Shorey), and grew into a very successful and high-paid actress of Lahore. At the age of nine, she was spotted by Roop K. A trained classical singer and dancer, she used to do stage shows for the Red Cross in the 1940s in Lahore. She was half-Irish, with an Irish mother and an Indian Christian father, who was a professor in an engineering college. She acted in films since 1941 under her name Manorama.
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