“My great grandfather from my father's side, Sir Akbar Hydari, was the prime minister of the Nizam of Hyderabad. He was instrumental in setting up the Osmania university. His wife set up the Hydari club for women so that they could play tennis, and she also set up the first girls' school in Hyderabad.”

Indian actress

Aditi Rao Hydari is an Indian actress who works mainly in Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu cinema. Born into the Tyabji-Hydari family, she began her film career with the Malayalam film Prajapathi in 2006. She drew wider notice for Delhi 6 and Yeh Saali Zindagi, and won her first Screen Award for the latter. She later appeared in Rockstar, Murder 3, Wazir, and Padmaavat, the 2018 period drama that was a commercial success and brought her an IIFA Award.