Nadia (Fearless) Wadia was born Mary Ann Evans in Perth, Australia in 1908. She came to Mumbai in 1913 when she was five. She lived in Colaba with her father, a Scotsman, in the British army and mother. She left for Peshavar with her mother. In 1928, she returned to Mumbai. She joined a dancing troupe. Her first film was Hunterwali (1935). She acted in 50 or 60 films. She was called Fearless Nadia, Hunterwali, Miss Frontier Mail, Diamond Queen or Jungle Queen. She died in Mumbai in 1996. Her best known films were for Wadia Movitone in the 1930s and 1940s. She was directed by  Homi Wadia in Diamond Queen (1940) whom she later married. The Wadia brothers J B H and Homi Wadia used Nadia to Indianize the stunt-film genre. Her stunts survive as clips on YouTube and low quality VCDs in the market. A musical Fearless Nadia was performed at Liberty Cinema in Mumbai and Sir Mutha Venkatasubba Rao Concert Hall in Chennai in November, 2012. Wadia’s grandson in 1993 (the late Riyad Vinci Wadia) introduced her to the world through a documentary on her life called Fearless : The Hunterwali Story. It generated a lot of interest. She expired in 1996. Shiamak Davar is Nadia’s grand-nephew.