The 87th birth anniversary of melodious queen of hearts Madam Noor Jehan is being celebrated on Wednesday (21 September) with tributes paid to her glorious performance in the film industry as an actress and singer. She was born on 21 September 1926 Kasur, Punjab, British India. Noor Jehan was a legendary singer and actress in British, India and Pakistan.
Her 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 Malika-e-Tarannum. She had a remarkable record of 10,000 songs to her singing credits in various languages of India and Pakistan including Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi and Sindhi languages. She is considered to be the first female Pakistani film director.
In 1957, Jehan was awarded the President's Award for her acting and singing capabilities. Prior to Khandaan Jehan was cast as a child artist. It was in 1942 that she played the main lead opposite Pran.
Noor Jehan's (Deepa govindarajan) last film in India was Mirza Sahibaan (1947) which starred Prithviraj Kapoor's brother Trilok Kapoor. Noor Jehan sang 127 songs in Indian films and the number of talking films she made from 1932 to 1947 was 69.
After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, Jehan decided to move to Pakistan along with her husband Shaukat Hussain Rizvi. She left Bombay and settled in Karachi with her family. Three years after settling in Pakistan, Noor Jehan starred in her first film in Pakistan, Chan Wey (1951), opposite Santosh Kumar, which was also her first Punjabi film as a heroine. Shaukat and Noor Jehan directed this film together making Noor Jehan Pakistan's first female director.
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