indeed a very beautiful lady.:k:
Noor Jehan (1929 - 2000) was born in Kasur and named Allah Wasai by her parents. Noor Jehan had five brothers and five sisters. From an early age she displayed signs of having a melodious voice, which became even more apparent by the time she was five or six years old. She could pick up just about anything - be it a folk song or popular number from a theatrical drama - imitating it to perfection. Realising her immense talent Noor Jehan’s mother started her training in singing and dancing. She took up singing when she was only seven and moved to Calcutta in 1934 where Mukhtar Begum, the leading singing star of the stage encouraged her. At this time, director K D Mehra cast her in Pind Di Kuri (1935). She next acted in a film called Misar Ka Sitara (1936) by the same company and sang in it for composer Damodar Sharma. Five films later Baby Noor Jahan played the role of Heer’s childhood in the film Heer Sayyal (1937). The role of Heer in this film was played by Balo, the mother of the 60’s star Sabiha Khanum.
After four years in Calcutta back in Lahore it was Master Ghulam Haider who spotted her immense talent as a singer and composed songs that made her famous overnight.
Noor Jehan was first cast as a heroine in Khandan (1942) opposite Pran (who later became Indian Cinema’s most hated villain) as the hero. The film was also a debut for director Shaukat Hussain Rizvi (who later married Noor Jehan). After that there was hit after hit with songs from Nadan (1943), Naukar (1943), Dost (1944), Lal Haveli (1944). By now her popularity outstripped all others.
In Jugnu (1947) she starred with Dilip Kumar, then a rising star. Noor Jehan’s last film in India was Mirza Sahiban (1947) which starred Prithviraj Kapoor. Moving to Pakistan in the early-1950s, she scored with films as Dupatta, Qaida, Intezaar, Anarkali and Koel. In addition to the many films in which she appeared, Jehan supplied vocals that were dubbed onto numerous films between 1947 and 1980.