Legendary theatre actor dies at the age of 93

In a way Uzra Butt and her sister Zohra Sehgal broke new ground. It was very difficult for local women ( nearly impossible for Muslim women) to break the barrier of respectability and take up acting and dancing as a career but Zohra Sehgal did so by joining Uday Shankar's group and was soon followed by her sister Uzra Butt , then Uzra Mumtaz. She did not find much to occupy her at the Queen Mary College and preferred to join the troupe while it was in London. For three years she travelled with them in Europe and the United States, took lessons in the morning and performed in the evening before the tour was cut short by the outbreak of the Second World War.