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Durgabai Kamat: The First Actress Of Indian Cinema Was Also a Single Mother

It was in 1914 that Durgabai Kamat took up Dadasaheb Phalke’s offer to act in his second film Bhasmasur Mohini, hence becoming the first actress of Indian cinema.

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