Suraiya

                    (1942 – 1965) 

                    Hindi , Urdu

                Suraiya jamaal tribal sheik (15 june 1929 - 31 jan 2004) was a singer and player of the indian films within the 40s and 50s, and was popularly legendary by her given name suraiya.

 Life

                Suraiya was born in Gujranwala , Punjab , (which is in pakistan) , and was the sole kid of her oldsters. she wasn't formally trained in music; nevertheless she went on to become a palmy singing thespian.

                She attended new girls' conjointly called j.b. petit high school for women , in fort , (mumbai). she received non secular islamic teachings in persian reception.

                Suraiya was romantically involved actor dev anand. the 2 of them costarred in six films between 1948 and 1951.throughout the shooting of the song kinare kinare chale jayen ge of the film vidya in 1948 , a ship capsized and dev anand saved suraiya from drowning. once this incident suraiya fell dotty with him. dev anand conjointly responded.

              On the sets of the film jeet 1949, dev anand finally projected to suraiya and gave her a diamond ring value rs 3,000 however her maternal grandparent opposed the link as they were muslim and dev anand was a hindu. out of this grief suraiya determined to stay a spinster all her life. they stopped acting alon g, once her grandparent opposed , thus do sitare 1951 , clad to be the last film of the combine to unleash. Suraiya lived in her living accommodations on marine drive in mumbai till her death as a result of cancer in 2004 at age seventy four.

        She was inhumed at badakabarastan in marine lines, mumbai.

                 Suraiya was declared the primary melody queen (malika-e-tarannum) within the sub-continent and far later noor jehan was awarded with a similar title.

                Her greatness may be judged by these comments. "you have place life within the soul of ‘mirza ghalib’", were the remarks of pandit solon , the primary indian prime minister. the hollywood legend gregory peck was keen to fulfill suraiya. in reference to the shooting of some film he happened to go to metropolis (mumbai) wherever he was worthy by the good role player by meeting him.

Career 

               Suraiya created her debut as a baby creator in usne kya socha (1937). she got a outstanding role as a baby creator with the assistance of her uncle zahoor, united nations agency was then a preferred villain actor. throughout a vacation from college in 1941 , she accompanied him to mohan studios to examine the shooting of the film mausoleum that was being directed by nanubhai vakil. vakil noticed suraiya and not having in his mind at that point any specific girl to play the role of young mumtaz mahal in mausoleum, hand-picked suraiya to play that role.

               Music director naushad once detected suraiya's voice on all india radio whereas she herbaceous plant for a children's program , and selected her to sing as a thirteen year previous for mehtaab in kardar's film sharda (1942). he was suraiya’s mentor and he or she herbaceous plant a number of the simplest songs of her career beneath his baton. later he gave hits when hits once suraiya became full fledged singing star in anmol ghadi (1946) , dard (1947) , dillagi (1949) and dastaan (1950). naushad composed about fifty one songs for suraiya , coming back at ordinal place when husnlal bhagatram for composing the best range of songs for suraiya.

                As associate adult, suraiya at the start compete secondary roles in k. asif's phool (1944) , mehboob khan's anmol ghadi (1946) , that was written by aghajani kashmeri additionally kashmiri , and indo-aryan (1947). she got a possibility as a heroine for the film tadbir (1945) at the advice of k. l. saigal, world health organization liked her voice throughout a rehearsal. she went on to costar with saigal in poet (1946) and parwana (1947). though by then she had a handful of hit songs, however the four solo songs that she herbaceous plant in parwana created her a real singer star. she thought-about musician of those songs , khawaja khurshid anwar as her favorite director for whom she herbaceous plant simply 13 songs throughout 1943 to 1949. additional opportunities arose for suraiya when powerful actresses noor jehan and khursheed bano migrated to west pakistan following the 1947 partition of british asian nation.

                As an actor, suraiya had a grip over her contemporaries kamini kaushal and nargis as a result of she might sing her own songs. when 3 hits pyar ki jeet (1948) , badi behen , and dillagi (1949) , she became the very best paid femininestar. however her reign at the highest was brief; her films started flopping within the nineteen fifties. She created a comeback in waar is and mirza ghalib (1954). rustom sohrab (1963) was her last film.