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Google Doodle Pays Tribute To Fearless Nadia On Her 110th Birth Anniversary Nadia came to India at the age of five, and while growing up learned many skills such as horseback riding, hunting, fishing and shooting during her stay in the North-West Frontier Province. She starred in movies like Desh Deepak and Noor-e-Yaman before getting her big break in Hunterwali. Google Doodle pays tribute to Fearless Nadia, the original stunt queen of India NEW DELHI:   Google Doodle paid a tribute to Fearless Nadia on her 110th birth anniversary. Mary Ann Evans, better known by her stage name Fearless Nadia was an actress and stuntwoman from Australia who made her mark in the Hindi film industry by her death defying acts. She is most remembered for her role in  Hunterwali  in 1935 which was one of the earliest female-lead Indian films. Nadia married Homi Wadia, a film maker and producer, and was married to him until her death on January 9, 1996. Incidentally, tomorrow will be her de

Who was Fearless Nadia? Fearless Nadia represented a profound shift in the way women were portrayed in Indian cinema, usually as vamps, virgins or victims, and became what no woman had ever been before -- the hero. Fearless Nadia. (Picture Courtesy: Wadia Movietone) If reports are to be believed, Kangana Ranaut’s character “Jaanbaaz Miss Julia” in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Rangoon heavily borrows from the persona of Fearless Nadia — the swashbuckling stuntwoman-actress of Bombay cinema of the 30s and early 40s. Nadia, who did all of her stunts by herself, fought on moving trains, threw herself into raging waterfalls, socialised with the lions and jumped from horseback onto ladders dangling from airplanes. “I’ll try anything once,” she famously said. But until the recent years, this her luminous legacy in Indian cinema largely lay buried and forgotten. Born Mary Ann Evans, in Perth, Australia in 1908 to a British soldier father and Greek mother, she moved to Bombay in 191

Fearless Nadia Fearless Nadia Fearless Nadia in  11 O'Clock  (1948) Born Mary Ann Evans 8 January 1908 Perth , Western Australia Died 9 January 1996 (aged 88) Mumbai ,  Maharashtra , India Other names Mary Evans Wadia Occupation Actress, stuntwoman Years active 1933–1970 Spouse(s) Homi Wadia Relatives See  Wadia family Mary Ann Evans , also known by her married name  Mary Evans Wadia  and her stage name  Fearless Nadia  (8 January 1908 – 9 January 1996) was an actress and stuntwoman, who is most remembered as the masked, cloaked adventurer in  Hunterwali  (Woman with a whip) released in 1935, [1] [2] [3]  which was one of the earliest female-lead  Indian films . [4] Contents    [ hide ]  1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 2 Legacy 3 Personal life 4 References 5 External links Biography [ edit ] Early life [ edit ] Fearless Nadia was born as  Mary Ann Evans  on 8 January 1908 in  Perth , Western Australia. She was the daughter of Sco