Waheeda was born in a Urdu-speaking family in Hyderabad, India on May 14, 1936. She was spotted by Guru Dutt in a song in a later film and was brought to Bombay and cast as a vamp ...more >>in his production C.I.D. (1956), directed by Raj Khosla. A few years after joining Hindi film industry, she lost her mother. After the success of C.I.D., she was given a leading role in Pyaasa (1957).<< collapse