Shakila

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Avijit Ghosh, September 22, 2017: The Times of India

 Shakila was famous for the character of the perky girl whom Shammi Kapoor serenades and irritates as only he could in the chartbuster, Baar baar dekho haza ar bar dekho ke dekhne ki cheez hai hamari dilru ba (film: China Town, 1962).

Crime drama CID (1956) starring Dev Anand was the biggest hit of her film career.But Shakila first caught the eye playing a night club dancer who ends up losing the man she loves in a Guru Dutt breezy musical with a dark touch, Aar Paar (1954). She also swayed amid cigarette fumes singing, Babuji dheere chalna, an OP NayyarAsha Bhonsle classic.

But while she got to lipsync the finest songs, Shakila got few roles of merit and heft in experiment-shy mainstream Bollywood. In CID too, debutant Waheeda Rehman earned more favourable reviews.

After her marriage in the early 1960s, Shakila shifted to London. “She had two children -a daughter, who tragically committed suicide, and a son,“ director Karan Bali writes in upperstall.com.