After a few years in Calcutta, Jehan returned to Lahore in 1938. All these Punjabi movies were made in Calcutta. One of her popular songs from that period "Shala jawaniyan maney" is from Dalsukh Pancholi's Punjabi film Gul Bakawli (1939). Jehan also played the child role of Heer in the film Heer-Sayyal (1937).
She then acted in a film called Missar Ka Sitara (1936) by the same company and sang in it for music composer Damodar Sharma.
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Mehra directed the Punjabi movie Pind di Kuri in which Noor Jehan acted along with her sisters and sang the Punjabi song "Langh aja patan chanaan da o yaar", which became her earliest hit. Her older sisters were offered jobs with one of the Seth Sukh Karnani companies, Indira Movietone and they went on to be known as the Punjab Mail. It was here that Wasai received the stage name, Baby Noor Jehan. She also recommended them to her husband, Agha Hashar Kashmiri, who owned a maidan theatre (a tented theatre to accommodate large audiences). Mukhtar Begum encouraged the sisters to join film companies and recommended them to various producers. Theatre owner Diwan Sardari Lal took the small girl to Calcutta in the early 1930s and the entire family moved to Calcutta in hopes of developing the movie careers of Allah Wasai and her older sisters, Eiden Bai and Haider Bandi. Once her vocational training finished, Jehan pursued a career in singing alongside her sister in Lahore, and would usually take part in the live song and dance performances prior to screenings of films in cinemas. He composed some ghazals, na`ats and folk songs for her to perform, although she was keener on breaking into acting or playback singing. Īt the age of nine, Noor Jehan drew the attention of Punjabi musician Ghulam Ahmed Chishti, who would later introduce her to the stage in Lahore.
He started her training at age of 11 at Calcutta and instructed her in the traditions of the Patiala Gharana of Hindustani classical music and the classical forms of thumri, dhrupad, and khyal. Realising her potential for singing, her father sent her to receive early training in classical singing under Ustad Ghulam Mohammad. Jehan began to sing at the age of six and showed a keen interest in a range of styles, including traditional folk and popular theatre. She is also considered to be the first female Pakistani film director. She is thought to be one of the most prolific singers of all time. She is estimated to have made more than 40 films and sung around 20,000 numbers during a career which lasted more than half a century. Īlong with Ahmed Rushdi, she holds the record for having given voice to the largest number of film songs in the history of Pakistani cinema. She had a command of Hindustani classical music as well as other music genres. Regarded as one of the greatest and most influential singers of all time especially in South Asia, she was given the honorific title of Malika-e-Tarannum in Pakistan. Her career spanned more than six decades (the 1930s–1990s). Noor Jehan (born Allah Wasai 23 September 1926 – 23 December 2000 sometimes spelled Noorjehan), also known by her honorific title Malika-e-Tarannum (the queen of melody), was a Pakistani playback singer and actress who worked first in British India and then in the cinema of Pakistan.