Jilloo
# Jilloo

Jilloo was an Indian Hindi language film actress born in 1905 in Bombay, India as Zuleka Ebrahain. She acted in Mother India and Mughal-e-Azam, the two biggest commercial and critical successes of the 1950s. She also acted in many movies also, but in very small roles. She portrayed the role of the mother-in-law of Radha, the protagonist of Mother India, and the mother of Anarkali, the lead female character of Mughal-e-Azam. She acted in several other films, including Madhosh, where she played Meena Kumari's mother. She also worked in India's first talkie film Alam Ara. When she was a young women, she was credited as Jilloobai, Jillo, Jilloo, Zillu, Zilloo or Zilloobai. As she started doing more mother roles, she was given the name Jilloo Maa as Maa means mother.

## Filmography

* 1960: Mughal-E-Azam – Anarkali's mother
* 1957: Mother India – Sundar Chachi
* 1951: Madhosh – Soni's mother
* 1951: Sanam – Jogin's mother
* 1950: Magroor – Manohar's mother
* 1950: Sabak
* 1945: Tadbir
* 1945: Naseeb
* 1945: Phool
* 1945: Vikramaditya
* 1944: Gaali
* 1931: Alam Ara
* 1924: Chandragupta Aur Chanakya
* 1924: Raziya Begum
* 1924: Shah Jehan
* 1924: Veer Durgadas
* 1947: "Jugnu"- Dilip Kumar's mother
* 1939:"pukar"
