Nirupa Roy was an actress in
Hindi movies are known for playing the role of the
Indian mother stereotype. She was
notorious for
always playing the mother, who was
either blind, disabled, poor.She
almost always mangaged to
lose his children one way or
another in every film. She played theheroine in her
early films, and the
hero's mother in her
movies from the 1970's and 80's.
Nirupa Roy was born as Kokila Kishorechandra Bulsara in Valsad, Gujarat. She married Kamal Roy, when she was 15 and moved to Mumbai. They have a son Yogesh and a daughter. She died after a cardiac arrest in Mumbai 13 October 2004 at the age of the 73rd.
She and her husband responded to an advertisement in a Gujarati paper looking for actors. She was elected and began his acting career with a Gujarati film Ranakdevi. She pretty much played mythological characters in films from the 1940's and 50's.