NOOR JEHAN – A woman with a golden voice!
Deemed to be one of the tremendous and greatly effective singers in India, she has been bestowed the honorific title of Malika-e-Tarannum in Pakistan. She had a command of Hindustani classical music as well as additional music genres.
Biography
Noor Jehan was a prominent Pakistani singer and actress who acted both in India and Pakistan. A highly extensive temperament, she could sing in many languages encompassing Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, and Sindhi, and had recorded over 10,000 songs in her career.
She later formulated an interest in acting along with singing and made her introductory film appearances as a child actor. With period she thrived up into a wonderful young woman with a golden voice and played her initial role as a grown-up in the Hindi film ‘Khandaan’ which evolved enormous hit.
Family and personal details
- She was born on 21 September 1926 in Punjab.
- Imdad Ali (father), Fateh Bibi (mother), and director Syed Shaukat Hussain Rizvi and Ejaz Durraniwas were his first and second husbands respectively.
- She strode to Pakistan pursuing the partition of India in 1947 and attempted for a few years to ascertain herself.
- Noor Jehan wedded for the second time in 1959.
- She died on December 23, 2000, aged 74.
Education and qualifications
Her educational qualifications are not known.
Physical appearance
- She was a glamorous lady with a charming face and beautiful eyes. She was fashionable.
- Her hair and eyes were black.
Career
- Her career stretched more than six decades (from the 1930s to–the 1990s). With her determination and hard work, she went on to attain enormous achievements in Pakistani cinema and music as well.
- During the 1930s her whole family moved to Calcutta with the wish that the daughters might get a chance to undertake movie careers.
- Theatre owner Diwan Sardari Lal taught the family to various producers. Noor Jehan, along with her sisters seemed in the K.D. Mehra supervised the Punjabi movie ‘Pind di Kuri’ in 1935.
- Film invitations began pouring in for the arising singer cum actress and she following worked in a film called ‘Missar Ka Sitara’ (1936).
- Jehan furthermore played the teenager role of Heer in the film ‘Heer-Sayyal’ (1937). All the Punjabi films she worked in and sang for were made in Calcutta.
- Noor Jehan strode to Lahore in 1938, and her career touched fresher heights. The renowned music director Ghulam Haider evolved her mentor and formulated songs for her to sing. This enabled her tremendously in ascertaining herself in her singing career.
- She was vastly interested in seeking an acting career as well.
- She played her first grown-up role in 1942 when she worked as the major lead contrary ran in ‘Khandaan’. The film came to be the main hit provoking her to change positions her base to Mumbai with director Syed Shaukat Hussain Rizvi who she later married.
- When the partition of India occurred in 1947, Jehan agreed to move to Pakistan and settled in Karachi with her family.
- The initial years following the partition were very hard for her though she was inferred to renovate her career.
- She got her initial big halt in Pakistan in 1951 when she seemed in the film, ‘Chan Wey’, contrary to Santosh Kumar. She furthermore directed this film along with her husband, coming to be Pakistan’s first female director.
- She stayed busy with her household over the following few years during which her relationship unraveled and broke off in divorce.
- Nonetheless, her career thrived during the 1950s and she acted in and vocalized for several hit films, the greater significant one being ‘Intezar’ (1956) in which she depicted a blind musician. It went on to evolve into one of her hugest hits.
- She proceeded to sing throughout the 1970s and 1980s, but the delayed stage of her career was relatively disappointing. She lent her ultimate contribution to music with the Punjabi song ‘Ki Dam Da BharosaYaar’ in ‘Sakhi Badshah’ (1996).
Interesting facts about Noor Jehan
- Along with AHMED RUSHDIE, she clasps the title for having provided a voice to the hugest number of film songs in the record of Pakistani cinema.
- She sang a whole of 2,422 songs in 1148 Pakistani films during a career that lingered for more than half a century.
- She is furthermore deemed to be the first female Pakistani film director.
- She was provided with the title of Malika-e-Tarannum (the Queen of Melody) in Pakistan.
