Nandita Morarji or Namratha Sadanah better known as Nagma (born 25 April 1974). At her peak in the 1990s, The Hindu stated that she "dominated Tamil cinema" with her movies Kadhalan and Baadsha. Born of a Muslim mother and a Hindu father, she began her acting career in Bollywood and acted in a few movies but shifted south before returning to Mumbai. Although sometimes listed in film credits as Naghma, she should not to be confused with an earlier actress who went by the same stage name - that mistake is made in her listing on the Internet Movie Database website. Nagma has acted in a broad range of India's languages: Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, and now Marathi.
