Jaddanbai

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Jaddanbai
Born	Jaddanbai (1892-04-01)1 April 1892 Benares, Benares State, British India (present-day Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India)
Died	8 April 1949(1949-04-08) (aged 57) Bombay, Bombay State, India (present-day Mumbai, Maharashtra, India)
Resting place	Chandanwadi Cemetery, Mumbai
Other names	Jayadevi
Spouses	Narottamdas Khatri Irshad Meer Khan Mohanchand Uttamchand (Abdul Rashid)
Children	Akhtar Hussain Anwar Hussain Nargis Dutt
Relatives	Priya Dutt (granddaughter) Sanjay Dutt (grandson) Sunil Dutt (son-in-law)

Jaddanbai Hussain (1 April 1892 – 8 April 1949; known professionally as Jaddanbai) was an Indian singer, music composer, dancer, actress, filmmaker, and one of the pioneers of Indian cinema. She along with Bibbo and Saraswati Devi was one of the first female music composers in Indian cinema. She was the mother of Akhtar Hussain, Anwar Hussain, and the well-known Hindi actress Nargis, and maternal grandmother of Priya Dutt and Sanjay Dutt.