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Munavvar Kalantarli

Munavvar Samad qizi Kalantarli (Azerbaijani: Münəvvər Kələntərli) was an Azerbaijani actress and folk singer. Born to a wealthy landowner family descended from Iranian émigrés, Munavvar "Mina" Kalantarli received her primary education at Maryam Bayramalibeyova's Uns School for Girls in Lankaran. Her aunt-in-law and prominent Azerbaijani folk singer, Yavar Kalantarli, noticed young Mina's talent for singing and encouraged her to pursue career in music. In the early 1930s, Munavvar Kalantarli moved to Baku to work at the Azerbaijan State Opera Theatre, where together with Yavar Kalantarli and Munavvar's brother Hashim, she performed folk songs. Prior to becoming an actress Munavvar Kalantarli had not received professional training in acting. Nevertheless, her artistic personality, natural talent and good sense of humour soon got the attention of theatre directors, and in the mid-1930s she was offered a job as an actress at the Azerbaijan Musical Comedy Theatre. In 1937, she got married and give birth to a daughter. Having had to choose between her career and her personal life, Kalantarli divorced her husband when their daughter was still a toddler. Her career in comedy was a successful one. In 1945, she starred in her first movie "The Cloth Peddler" (dir. Ismayil Afandiyev) as Auntie Jahan. Overall she acted in 9 movies between 1945 and 1962. She quit theatre after being appointed assistant producer at the Vatan cinema in Baku.


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Born:
Jan 1, 1912 In Lankaran, Azerbaijan
Movie/TV Credits:
10
First Appeared:
In the movie Arshin Takes a Wife 1945-10-01
Latest Project:
Movie The Labour and Rose 1962-12-02
Known For
Poster of Under the Burning Sun
Poster of If Not This, Then That
Poster of The Meeting
Poster of Bakhtiyar
Filmography
Movie The Labour and Rose Sonu 1962-12-02
Movie In New Year Night 1958-01-01
Movie The Packet of "Kazbek" Mamishov's Wife 1958-01-01
Movie The Shadows are Crawling Masma 1958-09-26
Movie Her Great Heart Samaya's Collague 1958-12-14
Movie Under the Burning Sun Gulbahar 1957-12-29
Movie If Not This, Then That 1956-12-30
Movie The Meeting Munavvar 1955-12-25
Movie Bakhtiyar Gulzar 1955-12-11
Movie Arshin Takes a Wife Jahan 1945-10-01