Known for her legendary career in both Bengali and Hindi cinema, Sharmila was born into a prestigious family in Calcutta and is a distant relative of the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

On the maternal side, Sharmila’s mother, Ira, was the granddaughter of Rabindranath Tagore’s brother, Dwijendranath. This intricate family tree reveals that Taimur and Jehangir are the great ...