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Saira Banu

1944 - Today

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Saira Banu (born 23 August 1944) is an Indian actress who mainly worked in Hindi films. Regarded as one of Indian cinema's finest actresses, she was among the most popular actresses of the 1960s and early 1970s. Banu received four Filmfare Awards nominations throughout her career.Banu made her acting debut with Junglee (1961), for which she received Filmfare Award for Best Actress nomination. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saira Banu has received more than 5,486,712 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Saira Banu is the 6,369th most popular actor (up from 6,740th in 2019), the 774th most popular biography from India (down from 727th in 2019) and the 115th most popular Indian Actor.

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  • 5.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Saira Banus by language

Over the past year Saira Banu has had the most page views in the with 557,872 views, followed by Hindi (16,852), and Persian (5,303). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Uzbek (77.26%), Maithili (58.87%), and Telugu (55.69%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Saira Banu ranks 6,369 out of 13,578. Before her are Russell Wong, Gina McKee, Pauline Chan Bo-Lin, Sterling Holloway, Elizabeth Gutiérrez, and Yelena Safonova. After her are Gil Bellows, Guy Siner, Yang Mi, Kim Delaney, Elisabetta Canalis, and Jacques Gamblin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Saira Banu ranks 606. Before her are Judee Sill, Benjamin Kogo, Albin Planinc, James Arthur, Lynn Harrell, and Regine Heitzer. After her are James H. Clark, Gennady Yevryuzhikhin, Guity Novin, John Sebastian, Gunnar Asmussen, and Patricia Quinn.

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In India

Among people born in India, Saira Banu ranks 774 out of 1,861. Before her are Shakti Kapoor (1952), Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1941), Mammootty (1951), Godfrey Brown (1915), Ajay Banga (1959), and Maneka Gandhi (1956). After her are K. Chandrashekar Rao (1954), Hemanta Mukherjee (1920), Shriram Lagoo (1927), Wahiduddin Khan (1925), Kashibai (1703), and Yashwant Sinha (1937).

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Among ACTORS In India

Among actors born in India, Saira Banu ranks 115. Before her are N. T. Rama Rao Jr. (1983), Kirron Kher (1955), Nanda (1939), Mehmood (1932), Shakti Kapoor (1952), and Mammootty (1951). After her are Shriram Lagoo (1927), Raj Babbar (1952), Mira Nair (1957), Persis Khambatta (1948), Nirupa Roy (1931), and Arjun Kapoor (1985).

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Television and Movie Roles

Purab Aur Pachhim
Preeti
Bharat is a patriotic Indian who's father was an Independence fighter. He goes to London and is disappointed to see that the NRI's staying there criticized everything Indian and were wasting their life away. Prithi (Siara Banu) is one such NRI who falls in love with Bharat but refuses to go back to India with him.
Jan 1o 19704.6 / 10
Padosan
Bhindu
A simple man from a village falls in love with his new neighbor. He enlists the help of his musical-theater friends to woo the lovely girl-next-door away from her music teacher.
Nov 29o 19686.9 / 10
Junglee
Rajkumari
A humorless and pompous businessman goes wild when he falls in love. Now if only his domineering mother could understand his new lease on life.
Jan 1o 19615.2 / 10