Nadira Babbar

Nadira Babbar
Babbar at Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal in May 2016
Born	(1948-01-20) 20 January 1948 (age 76) Bombay, Bombay State, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation(s)	Theater actress, director
Years active	1980–present
Spouse	Raj Babbar
Children	Arya Babbar Juhi Babbar
Parent(s)	Sajjad Zaheer (father) Razia Sajjad Zaheer (mother)

Nadira Babbar (born 20 January 1948) is an Indian theatre actress, director and an actress in Hindi cinema, who is the recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2001. Nadira founded a Mumbai-based theatre group called Ekjute, a known name in Hindi theatre in 1981.^[1]

Nadira Babbar was seen playing mother to Aishwarya Rai in Gurinder Chadha's film Bride and Prejudice (2004), and M. F. Hussain's Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities (2004). She was also portrayed as the mother of Salman Khan in Sohail Khan's Jai Ho and as the mother of Raj Bansal (main villain) in Sunny Deol's 2016 movie named Ghayal Once Again.