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'''Indira Devi''', born '''Effie Hippolet''', was an actress of early silent [[Indian cinema]].<ref name="Ganti2004">{{cite book |author=Tejaswini Ganti |title=Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=67mAAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA230 |date=2 August 2004 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-134-44222-5 |page=230}}</ref><ref name="Goyal2014">{{cite book |author=Omita Goyal |title=Interrogating Women's Leadership and Empowerment |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZxlBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT151 |date=10 December 2014 |publisher=SAGE Publishing India |isbn=978-93-5150-471-9 |page=151}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Indira Devi was born from [[Calcutta]]'s [[Anglo-Indian]] community.<ref name="Chaudhuri1990">{{cite book |author=Sukanta Chaudhuri |title=Calcutta, the Living City: The present and future |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cGduAAAAMAAJ |year=1990 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=294 |isbn=9780195625868}}</ref> She was a leading actress in early silent films for the Indian cinema. She paused her career in the early 1930s after her marriage. She played the lead role opposite [[Prithviraj Kapoor]] in ''Sher-e-Arab'' / ''Arabian Knights'' (1930). She returned to films in 1935.<br />
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==Selected filmography==<br />
* ''Milaap'' (1937)<br />
* ''Wamaq Azra''/''Sacchi Mohabbat'' (1935)<br />
* ''Sher-e-Arab'' / ''Arabian Knights'' (1930)<br />
* ''Vaman Avatar'' (1930)<br />
* ''Ganesh Janam'' (1930)<br />
* ''Rajsinha'' (1930) <br />
* ''Kapal Kundala'' (1929) <br />
* ''Jana'' (1927)<br />
* ''Durgesh Nandini'' (1927)<br />
* ''Punarjanma'' (1927)<br />
* ''Jaydev'' (1926)<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb name|0222451}}<br />
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