Udaya Tara Nayyar: Parveen Babi was liberated to an extent but not cheap or exhibitionist

She was right. She moved very quickly to the top rung and popular actors like Amitabh Bachchan and Shashi Kapoor were only too glad to have her in the female lead opposite them. If she met me in the studios during lunch break she would whisk me away to her make up room where we chatted informally and she never failed to ask me if I was carrying idlis in my tiffin box. If I was, it gave her great pleasure to offer the lunch sent to her room to me for the idlis in my lunch box. By the time Deewar became a super hit she was counted among the top leading ladies of Hindi Cinema.