Nostalgia......yesteryear Actresses

Reeth? 1 or 2 pages on Rakhee Gulzar plz coz acting wise, no1 was like her!

I have seen a few songs from Mirza Ghalib ......Anmol ghadi is the only film i have seen and to be frank i found her much more charming than Noor Jehan.

Plenty!

Let's say that unlike DK, RK cud never manage 2 look like a gentleman.
Didn't look the part, cudn't play the part either. Not even in his personal life.

Noorie

Reeth? 1 or 2 pages on Rakhee Gulzar plz coz acting wise, no1 was like her!

reeth, o reeth. where do you get all the informations man ? it's awesome.
thank you very much. write something on deepti naval, smita patil, mousumi(the honey) ...


suraiya is very gorgeous. the 2nd photo is a class one. in the first one, i like her hair.


yeah, yeah. i demand the same. rakhee is adorable. i like her eyes, lips and cheeks.
gulzar connection too. he is someone i take my hat off to.

So I am !

Wud sumone please teach me how 2 sugar-coat the truth ? I'll be very grateful.

Noorie

The truth as you know it or do you have the ownership on truth. What do you don't give the credit where the credit is due, he made great strides in his career, he just didn't pop out of no where. I love Dilip Kumar as a great actor but he is NOT the only one. What one sees in one is their choice, so try to be FAIR not just blur out your ignorant thoughts.
RKA

Seems even the songs you mentioned above are all mellifluous. Not to speak of those well-known movies.
Of course I don't remember seeing those movies except SHIN SHINAKI BUBALA BOO as a very small kid at the Imperial Theatre or perhaps the Swatik. But don't remember a thing from it. The title song of this movie I do remember the line. I wonder whether this was a mythical movie and whether the swashbuckling RANJAN was her hero.

I specially asked for REHANA's info since my dad had informed me that he had purchased the house of Rehana before her migration to Pakistan.

NASIR.

She was Indian, of course..... did elope with Najam ul Hussain, the hero of her film Jawani

Rehana married Pakistani film director Iqbal Shehzad, later they got divorced... and then she married a businessman Sabir Ahmed. Rehana is leading a widow's life in seclusion in Karachi.

As far as Najam ul Hasan is concerned, here is some info :-

One of the major stars of Bombay Talkies, Najmul Hasan was easily the most handsome actor of his time. He was studying law but did not finish and went to Bombay where Himansu Roy, founder of Bombay Talkies, persuaded him to become an actor. He was cast in the first film produced by Bombay Talkies Jawani ki hawa (1935-H) Bo, a regular whodunit with shades of Agatha Christie. Roy's wife, Devika Rani, who was related to Rabindranath Tagore, fell in love with Najmul Hasan and the two ran away, which many say brought on the heart attack that killed Roy. Najmul Hasan also had a roaring love affair with Jahanara Kajjan, another cinema beauty. Migrated to Pakistan after partition and died unsung in Lahore in 1980.

I have seen a few songs from Mirza Ghalib ......Anmol ghadi is the only film i have seen and to be frank i found her much more charming than Noor Jehan.

Reeth, excellent pictures and info.
Just a slight correction, probably an oversight: In Rustom aur Sohrab it was Premnath and not Pradeep Kumar who acted as the unfortunate Sohrab who is unwittingly killed by his own father, Rustom (Prithviraj Kapoor). Suraiyya played the mother of Premnath. The romantic angle was provided by beautiful lass called Mumtaz.

Here, I would like to mention a news item that I had read in a daily many many years ago which would explain the craze for Suraiyya. It appears that a person actually robbed Suraiyya in her flat. No, not the money, but all her songs' records. The police finally nabbed the thief in Khandala. He was enjoying Suraiyya's songs, oblivious of the attendent risks.

NASIR.





NASIR.

SURAIYA (June 15, 1929 - January 31, 2004

Suriya was perhaps the last of the Great singing stars...Born in Lahore, she was an only child.She began her acting career by playing bit roles as a child artiste,between the years 1937-1941.Her major film was TajMahal in 1941.....She did playback as a 13 year old for actress Mehtaab in Sharda(1942)
She was launched as a singing star in Bombay talkies Hamaari Baat(1943).She initially started by playing powerful secondary roles in films like Phool, Anmol Ghadi and Dard,..Her singing career found a mentor in music maestro naushad...K.L.Saigal recommended her as heroine for Tadbir in 1945,she co starred with Saigal in Omar Khayyam and Parwana. In 1947 after the partition when Major actresses Noor jehan and Khurshid migrated to Pakistan, more opportunities appeared for Suraiya....



The Year 1948 - 1949 were the best for her career...She had three major hits Pyar ki Jeet, Badi bahen and Dillagi and she became the highest paid Female Star.At her peak Suriaya generated hysteria among the masses...Her songs were a craze....Her songs like Tere nainon ne chori kiya, Woh paas rahe ya door rahe...Bigdi bananewale, murliwale murli bajaa were hummed in every nook and corner of the country..



while shooting for the film Vidya Suraiya fell in love with Dev Anand and the two of them did six films together....Afsar,shayar,Do sitare,Jeet,Nili , none of them hits, suraiya had no regrets as their love flourished...But suraiya's grandmother opposed the relationship . Suraiya remained unmarried all her life...Their love story was the stuff legends are made of...




She made a hit pair with Talat mehmood in movies like Maalik and Waris.... In 1954 she gave her finest dramatic performance in Mirza Ghalib, in the role of a courtesan, the married Ghalib's lover.....her songs in this film are eternal classics...Yeh na thi hamare kismat, Dil e naadan tujhe hua kya hai..

Some of her memorable films
Anmolghadi pyar ki jeet
Waris
Afsar
Sanam
Malik
Mirza Ghalib
Deewana
Mashooqa
Vidya
Shama
Rustom Sohrab


Suraiya's films startrd flopping in the fifties.....followed some indifferent films, and finally in 1963 after acting in Rustom Soharb with Prithviraj Kapoor she bade farewell to the studios....
She retreated into a world surrounded by her close family..
She died in 2004 ,at the age of 75....


Suriya's Films and songs continue to thrive on speculations,lore and memories....

Suraiya was born in Gujranwala... not Lahore. I haven't seen Mirza Ghalib, but my favorite Suraiya's movie as an actress is Dastaan with Raj Kapoor. As a singer... I like most of her movies. Badi Behan was also a nice watchable movie, but I didn't like Dillagi at all...

Anmol Ghadi was also a nice movie... I also find Suraiya more charming than Noor Jehan in this film + I liked Suraiya's songs better than Noor Jehan. Noor Jehan was pregnant at that time I think, and she looks plumpy and bubbly and her acting was completely wooden in the movie.

Noor Jehan best movies (as an actress) came after partition and she looks very pretty in Koel and Intezar.