The latter film's failure disappointed her, and even though she did a few more child roles, she quit to resume her schooling. Famed film director Bimal Roy saw her dance at a stage function and cast her at the age of ten in Maa (1952) and then repeated her in Baap Beti (1954). Parekh started her career as a child artist under the screen name Baby Asha Parekh. Her mother enrolled her in Indian classical dance classes at an early age and she learned from many teachers, including Pandit Bansilal Bharati. Her mother, Sudha aka Salma Parekh, was a Dawoodi Bohra Shia Gujarati Muslim and her father, Bachubhai Parekh, was Hindu Gujarati. ![]() Asha Parekh is a Gujarati born on 2 October 1942.
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