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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Shyama Zutshi<br />
| image = ShyamaZutshi1938.png<br />
| alt = A South Asian woman with fair skin and dark hair parted center, wearing a scarf draped loosely over her head<br />
| caption = Shyama Zutshi, from a 1938 issue of ''The Indian Listener''<br />
| birth_name = Shyama Zutshi<br />
| birth_date = 8 February 1910<br />
| death_date = 1953<br />
| birth_place = [[Anand Bhavan]], [[Allahabad]], India<br />
| nationality = <br />
| spouse = <br />
| children = Bittoni, born in 1947 and died in 2009.<br />
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| parents = Pandit Ladli Prasad Zutshi (father)<br/> Lado Rani (mother)(Only daughter of Pandit Jivan Lal Tikku)<br />
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| occupation = [[Actress]], Freedom fighter<br />
| years_active = 1934–1936<br />
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| relatives = See [[Nehru-Gandhi family]]<br />
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''' Shyama Zutshi ''' (8 February 1910 – 1953) was a [[Bollywood]] actress who was the first [[Kashmiris|Kashmiri]] woman who joined films in 1934.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cinemaazi.com/people/yashodhara-katju-1?ctr=103&filterBy=y&search=&people= |title=Yashodhara Katju}}</ref> <br />
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==Early life==<br />
Shyama Zutshi was born at the [[Anand Bhavan]] in [[Allahabad]]. She was the daughter of Barrister Pandit Ladli Prasad Zutshi who was the only son of Patrani (Sister of [[Motilal Nehru]]). She was admitted to [[Sacred Heart Convent]], [[Lahore]] by her mother Lado Rani. She was fluent in [[English language|English]], [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]], [[Marathi language|Marathi]], [[Urdu]], [[Kashmiri language|Kashmiri]] and [[Hindi]]. She was also proficient in [[horse riding]], singing and dancing.<ref name=Sahgal>{{cite book |last1=Sahgal |first1=Manmohini Zutshi |author-link1=Manmohini Zutshi Sahgal |title=An Indian Freedom Fighter Recalls Her Life |date=1994 |publisher=M.E. Sharpe |isbn=9781563243394 |pages=3–4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J3Wsf38G7uwC&pg=PA3&}}</ref><br />
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==Career and personal life==<br />
After passing her BA examination Shyama Zutshi joined Hindi cinema. Her first movie was ''Shiv Bhakti'' (1934). She later acted in many films like ''Majnu'' (1935) and ''Khooni Jadugar'' (1939). Her major hit was ''[[Karwan-E-Hayat]]'' (1935) in which she acted with [[K. L. Saigal]], [[T. R. Rajakumari]], [[Pahari Sanyal]], and [[Rattan Bai]]. <ref name=Crow>{{cite news |last1=Crow |first1=Jonathan |title=Karwan-E-Hayat 1933 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/253863/Karwan-E-Hayat/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903145205/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/253863/Karwan-E-Hayat/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 September 2014 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |publisher=[[Baseline (database)|Baseline]] & [[All Movie Guide]] |year=2014 |accessdate=27 August 2014}}</ref><br />
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She became a very successful actress, but with the influence from her elder sister [[Manmohini Zutshi Sahgal|Manmohini]] she moved out from films and focused on politics and freedom struggle. Another reason for Shyama Zutshi to quit films was the advice from a fellow Kashmiri actor Chander Mohan Wattal who was a close friend of Zutshi family. According to Chander acting in films was not meant for girls from good families like Kashmiri Pandits. So Chander Mohan Wattal always opposed the entry of Kashmiri girls to films. Later Shyama became a Women Congress leader and a frontline freedom fighter influenced by [[Gandhi]]'s non-violent struggle along with her mother and three sisters (Chandra Kumari, Manmohini and Janak) . After some time Lado Rani arranged the marriage of Shyama in a well off Chopra family. She became Shyama Chopra after marriage.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://autarmota.blogspot.com/2013/03/sh.html |title=SHYAMA ZUTSHI : FIRST KASHMIRI GIRL TO ACT IN HINDI FILMS}}</ref><br />
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==External links==<br />
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