| Name(s) |
NOOR JEHAN
(Birth name: Allah Wasai) |
| Date of
Birth |
September 21, 1926
– Kasur, Punjab, India (Now in Pakistan, after unfortunate
partition of India insisted by those whom India accepted as
guests for over 1000 years). |
| Date of
Death |
December 23, 2000
– Karachi, Sindh, India (Now in Pakistan, after unfortunate
partition of India insisted by those whom India accepted as
guests for over 1000 years). |
|
Identity |
Legendary Indian
Singer and Actress |
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Other Events &
Developments |
- Noor jehan was the adopted stage name for Allah Wasai
who was a legendary singer and actress in Undivided India
and later in Pakistan.
- Her film and music career spanned seven decades.
- She was renowned as one of the greatest and most
influential singers of her time in South Asia and was given
the honorific title of Mallika-e-Tarannum.
- Born in a Punjabi family of musicians, she was pushed by
her parents to become a singer but she was more interested
in acting in films.
- She acted in the earliest Pakistani films.
- She sang about 10,000 songs in various languages of
India and Pakistan including Hindi, Urdu,Punjabi and
Sindhi languages.
- She holds the highest record of film songs
in the history of Pakistani cinema.
- She is also considered to be the first
female Pakistani film director.
- In 1945 she played the lead role, alongside Lata
Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle, in the movie Bari Maa.
- In 1945, she achieved a milestone, when she sung a
Qawwali with Zohrabai Ambalewali and Kalyani which was
"Aahen Na Bhareen Shikave Na Kiye". This was the first ever
Qawwali recorded in female voices in South Asian films.
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