Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Zohrabai was among the SiNgers

In the previous post, I mentioned that Noor Jehan migrated to Pakistan in 1947.

But that wasn’t before she played one of the titular protagonists in Mirza Sahiban, her last film in India, which also released that year.

She also happened to be one of the three ladies who rendered the only song from that film in my collection – Haye Re Ud Ud Jaaye Mora Reshmi Duppatwa.

Shamshad Begum and Zohrabai Ambalewali were the others.

The song was written by Qamar Jalalabadi, and composed by the late Pandit Amarnath and his younger brothers, Husnlal Bhagatram.

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