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	'''Indira Devi''', ~~borned~~ '''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>		'''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>

	==Career==		==Career==
	Indira Devi was born from [[~~Culcutta~~]]'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.		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.

	==Selected filmography==		==Selected filmography==

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	'''Indira Devi''', borned'''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>		'''Indira Devi''', borned '''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>

	==Career==		==Career==

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'''Indira Devi''', borned'''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>

==Career==
Indira Devi was born from [[Culcutta]]'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.

==Selected filmography==
* ''Milaap'' (1937)
* ''Wamaq Azra''/''Sacchi Mohabbat'' (1935)
* ''Sher-e-Arab'' / ''Arabian Knights'' (1930)
* ''Vaman Avatar'' (1930)
* ''Ganesh Janam'' (1930)
* ''Rajsinha'' (1930)
* ''Kapal Kundala'' (1929)
* ''Jana'' (1927)
* ''Durgesh Nandini'' (1927)
* ''Punarjanma'' (1927)
* ''Jaydev'' (1926)

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb name|0222451}}

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