Trivia

She was married to famous film producer-director Sohrab Modi.

Her father, Nawab Sidi Ibrahim Mohammad Yakut Khan III, was the Nawab of Sachin, near Surat in the state of Gujarat.

Starting her career in the late 1920s with small roles in films like Second Wife (1928), Indira B. A. (1929) and Jayant (1929), she went on to do character roles before acting in the lead opposite Ashraf Khan in Veer Kunal (1932).

Mehtab acted in her early feature film Kamaal-e-Shamsheer (1930) with W. M. Khan, which was produced by her mother under Excelsior film company.

Mehtab received the Best Actress award in a Hindi film for Parakh at the 8th Annual BFJA Awards.

Mehtab a Muslim, married Sohrab Modi, a Parsi, on 28 April 1946, her birthday. In 1953, Modi produced, directed and acted in Jhansi Ki Rani, which starred a now ageing Mehtab as the young Jhansi Ki Rani. The film was a big financial disaster and the last starring role of Mehtab.

Mehtab was an Indian actress of Hindi/Urdu films who worked from 1928 to 1969.

She stopped acting in films following 1953 except to act in her last role as a character artist in Modi's Samay Bada Balwan (1969).

In 1932, she acted under the banner of Indian Art Productions as the main female lead in Veer Kunal, opposite Ashraf Khan, an actor she was to marry and then divorce.

After almost a decade of doing mainly action-oriented roles, she came into prominence with the Kidar Sharma-directed Chitralekha (1941).