Ramola Devi was born as Rachel Cohen in 1917 in Bombay, British India, to a Jewish family whose roots are in Baghdad, Iraq.
Ramola was drawn to the stage profession from a young age, and immediately after graduating she decided to pursue her dream.
[1] She appeared in theater plays and a number of short and local Bengali films, such as Graher Pher in 1937 but tried to break as an Indian national actress.
Bose made fun of her height and she was heart broken, then Sharma promised her that once he became a director he will give her the main role in his film.
[citation needed] Kidar Sharma kept his promise and cast her in his first film as a director in 1939 Dil Hi To Hai, a film about a middle-class father who sacrificed his whole life to educate his son and daughter, Ramola played the role of the daughter who broke her father's heart.