Azuri (Anna Marie Gueizelor) is considered the first 'item dancer' in Indian films. A quick biography of her by Arunkumar Deshmukh here. Her first dance according to Cineplot is in the 1934 film Nadira.
This seems to be a 1935 Azuri dance though in silhoutte http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBoaWYwlHD0 according to AK of Songs of Yore in the discussion herehttp://roughinhere.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/azurie/
The dance is also discussed in a very interesting post by Minaihttp://cinemanrityagharana.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/dance-in-early-indian-cinema-some-video.html
Some information about her life in Pakistan is on pages 39 andf 99-100 0f this thesis http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8km963tz
This seems to be a 1935 Azuri dance though in silhoutte http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBoaWYwlHD0 according to AK of Songs of Yore in the discussion herehttp://roughinhere.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/azurie/
The dance is also discussed in a very interesting post by Minaihttp://cinemanrityagharana.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/dance-in-early-indian-cinema-some-video.html
Some information about her life in Pakistan is on pages 39 andf 99-100 0f this thesis http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8km963tz
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