Veteran actress-politician Nafisa Ali, who was diagnosed with stage 3 cancer peritoneal and ovarian cancer in 2018, shared that she is resuming chemotherapy since surgery was not an option for her at the moment. The actor took to Instagram to share the emotional note along with an inspiring quote \u201cOne day my children asked, ‘Who will we turn to when you’re gone?\u2019 I told them, \u2018Turn to each other. That is my greatest gift -siblings who share the same love and memories. Protect one another, and remember: your bond is stronger than anything life can bring\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
Saying that she loves life, Nafisa captioned the post: \u201cA new chapter in my journey from today. I had my PET scan yesterday \u2026 so back to chemotherapy as surgery is not possible . Believe me, I love life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nafisa was the national swimming champion from 1972 to 1974, who then went on to win the Eve\u2019s Weekly Miss India title in 1976. She also represented India at the Miss International contest and was declared the 2nd runner-up, she said. She then stepped into the world of acting with the 1979 Shyam Benegal film \u2018Junoon\u2019 with Shashi Kapoor. She was seen in \u2018Major Saab\u2019 starring Amitabh Bachchan, \u2018Bewafaa,\u2019 \u2018Life In A\u2026 Metro,\u2019 \u2018Guzaarish\u2019, and \u2018Yamla Pagla Deewana.\u2019 She also acted in a Malayalam film called \u2018Big B\u2019 with Mammootty.<\/p>\n
Nafisa also contested in the Lok Sabha elections from South Kolkata but did not win. In 2009, as per IANS, she contested the Lok Sabha election from Lucknow on the Samajwadi Party ticket after Sanjay Dutt’s disqualification by the Supreme Court on the basis of a prior conviction. She then rejoined the Indian National Congress party in November 2009 and said she is returning to Congress for life. However, she joined the All India Trinamool Congress in October 2021 ahead of the 2022 Goa Legislative Assembly election.<\/p>\n
She was last seen in the 2022 film \u2018Uunchai\u2019, directed by Sooraj Barjatya. The film also stars Amitabh Bachchan, Anupam Kher, Boman Irani, Parineeti Chopra, Neena Gupta, Sarika, Danny Denzongpa and Nafisa Ali.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran actress-politician Nafisa Ali, who was diagnosed with stage 3 cancer peritoneal and ovarian cancer in 2018, shared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[26181,10122,13625,26186,26185,156,26184,26187,409,25599,25607,25604,25603,111,139,69,16561,26183,26182,26180],"class_list":["post-25943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-actress-politician","tag-bollywood-actress","tag-bollywood-news","tag-cancer-journey","tag-chemotherapy-treatment","tag-entertainment","tag-indian-national-congress","tag-inspiring-quotes-about-siblings","tag-movies","tag-nafisa-ali","tag-nafisa-ali-cancer","tag-nafisa-ali-chemotherapy","tag-nafisa-ali-health-update","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-ovarian-cancer","tag-peritoneal-cancer","tag-uunchai-movie","tag-veteran-actress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}