[4] Rose Musleah was born in 1911 in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in British India, the only child of a Jewish family of Baghdadi origin.
Upon finishing her studies at the age of 15, which she graduated with honors, Mosley became a personal secretary, and taught ballroom dancing in the evenings.
After studying and gaining acting experience in the theater, she applied with a letter of recommendation to JF Madan and started working in Tollywood films.
[5] In 1927 at the age of 16 she got married and later went through divorce and financial difficulties before becoming a star of the silent films in the twenties.
She co-starred with actors Motilal in Hum Tum Aur Woh in 1938 and Prithviraj Kapoor in Adhuri Kahani in 1939.