Sharmila Tagore

Sharmila Tagore was born on 8 December 1944 in Cawnpore United Provinces to Gitindranath Tagore, a general manager in the British India Corporation, and his wife Ira Tagore . Tagore's father belonged to the aristocratic Bengali Hindu Tagore family, and were distantly related to the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, while her mother was of Assamese Hindu descent and hailed from the Barua family.