Musarrat Nazir

Musarrat Nazir
Musarrat Nazir
Born	13 October 1940 (age 83); Punjabi folk music
Awards	Pride of Performance Award by the President of Pakistan in 1989; Won 3 Nigar Awards during her career

Musarrat Nazir Khawaja (

folk songs

.

Early life

Her parents were a Punjabi middle-class family of

Kinnaird College in Lahore.^[2]^[3]

Career

She had keen interest in music and began singing for Radio Pakistan in the early 1950s. However, insufficient money from the radio took her to the film director, Anwar Kamal Pasha in 1955. She explained to Pasha about her strong desire to sing for the movies. Instead, Pasha suggested to her to become an actress. Musarrat needed her parents' approval. Pasha himself met Musarrat's father and convinced him to allow his daughter to work in the movie industry as a singer and actress.

Anwar Kamal Pasha changed Musarrat's name to Chandani and signed her up for a side role in his movie. Hence, Chandani made her debut with Sabiha Khanum and Nayyar Sultana in Pasha's film Qatil in 1955. Her role was secondary but effective.^[2]

Sheikh Lateef of Capital Films, Lahore planned to make a Punjabi film, 'Pattan (1955)'. Lateef's friend, poet and script writer, Baba Aalam Siah Posh, advised him to cast Chandani (Musarrat Nazir) in the film. Sheikh Lateef agreed. This was the debut of Musarrat Nazir in Punjabi films, with a nickname Chandani. Then Chandani appeared in the hit Punjabi film, Pattan (1955), with her real name, Musarrat Nazir.

She played the lead role opposite

Santosh Kumar in Pattan (1955). The producer was Sheikh Lateef and the film was directed by Luqman. The film Pattan opened the doors for Musarrat in the Punjabi film industry, which led her to the hit film Patay Khan (1955). She was the supporting actress. The film was produced by film actress Shammi and Musarrat Nazir acted in a supporting role along with Noor Jehan and Aslam Pervaiz. Her main competitor actresses, in those days, were Sabiha Khanum, Yasmin and Noor Jehan.^[4]

Personal life

She was born on 13 October 1940 .[5] She is married to a physician Arshad Majeed and has lived in Canada since 1965.^[4] They have three grown-up children in 2005. Musarrat Nazir gave up her film career that was then at its peak for her would-be husband and agreed to move to Canada with him.^[2]

Musarrat Nazir and Arshad Majeed wanted to return to Pakistan and settle in Lahore in the late 1970s. Arshad Majeed wanted to set up a hospital in Lahore and they had gone ahead and bought a home there for this purpose which they still own and maintain in 2005. After spending a lot of money, months of struggle and running around, Arshad Majeed gave up.^[2]

Filmography

Musarrat also gave performances in Pakistan cinema's greatest melodramas like the films Mahi Munda (1956) and Yakke Wali (1957).

Following is the list of Musarrat's films:

Qatil (1955)
Pattan (1955),^[6]
Paatay Khan (1955)
Mahi Munda (1956)
Peengaan (1956)^[6]
Kismet (1956)
Mirza Sahiban (1956)^[6]
Guddi Guddi
(1956)
Baghi (1956),^[4]
Aankh Ka Nasha (1957)
Baap Ka Gunah (1957)
Palkaan (1957)
Yakke Wali (1957)^[6]
Naya Zamana (1957)
Sehti (1957)
Jatti (1958)
Zehr-e-Ishq (1958)
Street number 77
Seestaan (1957)
Thandi Sarak (1957)
Jaan-E-Bahar (1958)^[6]
Lukkan Miti (1959)
Jaidad (1959)
Kartar Singh^[6]

Raaz (1959)^[4]
Sola Aanay (1959)
Jhoomer (1959)^[2]

Clerk (1960)
Gul Badan (1960)
Naukari (1960)
Sunehre Sapne (1961)
Shaheed (1962)^[6]
Ishq Par Zor Nahin (1963)
Chotay Sarkaar
Mangol (1961)
Muftbar (1961)
Gulfam'' (1961)^[6]
Bahadur (1967)^[6]

The film song Us bay wafa ka sheher hai in the mega-hit film

Pakistan Television until recently.^[2]^[3]

Discography

Musarrat Nazir made an appearance on
Tariq Aziz Show in 1983. Songs from that show became highly popular in Pakistan.^[4]

Her popular songs are listed below:

Gulshan ki baharon mein

Mera laung gawacha (1983), song lyrics by
Khawaja Pervez was a runaway hit song^[2]^[4]

Chalay to kat hi jaaye ga safar aahistah, aahistah[4]

Apnay haathoan ki lakiroan mein

Lathe di chader uttay saleti rung mahiya, a traditional folk song of western Punjab

Chitta kukkar banairey tay

Mehndi ni mehndi

Jogi (1985)^[4]

Awards and nominations

Nigar Award for Best Actress in 1958, for the film Zehr-e-Ishq.^[3]

Nigar Award for Best Actress in 1959, for the film Jhoomer.^[3]

Nigar Award for Best Actress in 1962, for the film Shaheed
.

Pride of Performance Award from the President of Pakistan in 1989.^[3]

References

^ Khalid Hasan (18 March 2005). "Looking for Musarrat Nazir (her Profile)". Academy of the Punjab in North America (APNA). Retrieved 24 April 2022. ... She was also chaperoned by her father to the studios: being just a simple, artless girl from a middle class family of Punjabi Kashmiris who had broken into the movies. ...

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Khalid Hasan (18 March 2005). "Looking for Musarrat Nazir (her Profile)". Academy of the Punjab in North America (APNA). Retrieved 24 April 2022.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Musarrat Nazir: the iconic heroine – Part II". Daily Times (newspaper). 31 August 2019. Retrieved 24 April 2022.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Zurain Imam (27 September 2009). "Profile of Musarrat Nazir". Cineplot.com website. Archived from the original on 10 November 2011. Retrieved 24 April 2022.

^ "فلمی مٹیاراں". Samaa TV. 15 May 2016.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ "Filmography of Musarrat Nazir". Complete Index To World Film (CITWF) website. Archived from the original on 4 February 2019. Retrieved 24 April 2022.

External links

Musarrat Nazir at
IMDb

Live UK Performance of Main kamli da dhola on
YouTube

Arts
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Khwaja Moinuddin
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Ayat Ali Khan
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Rafi Peer
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Ustad
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Kishwar Sultan
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Ustad Fateh Ali Khan (Sitar Nawaz)
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Mureed Buledi
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Mohammad Azam Chishti
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Aazar Zubi
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Mansoor Tabish
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Qari Syed Ali Sharfuddin Yemni
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Alexander Robert
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Qari Ubaidur Rehman
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Ustad Nazar Hussain
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Ustad Abdul Majeed Dehlvi
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Sain Akhtar Hussain
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Qari Izhar Ahmed Thanvi
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Shaista Zaid
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Ustad Kabir Khan
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Musarrat Nazir
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Jameel Bismil
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Ameer Khan
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Amjad Hussain
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Khalid Hameed Baig
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Qari Mohammad Fida
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Khursheed Alam known as Gohar Qalam
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Noor Mohammad Lashari
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Ismail Shahid
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Syed Manzoorul Kaunain
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Shahid Jalal
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Qari Mohammad Younus
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Mashooq Sultan
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Syed Afzal Hussain
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Abdul Aziz Baloch
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Ghulam Mustafa
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Majeed Khan (sarangi player)
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Mahtab Akbar Rashdi
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Chishty Bin Subh-o-Mujahid
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Navid Shahzad
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S. M. Naqi
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Haji Atta Muhammad
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Moin Niazi
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Samiur Rahman
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Akhtar Munir
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Gopal Das
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Haji Mehr Ali
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Haji Sher Ali
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Nahid Raza
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Gul Bahar Bano
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Mujahid Hussain
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Rasheed Malik
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Abdul Karim Balouch
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M. Hanif Raza
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Nasreen Askari
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Mansoor Rahi
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Muhammad Younus Khan
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Emanuel Philip
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Shabbir Hussain
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Manzoor Hussain
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Parveen Nazzar
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Javaid Tufail Niazi
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Babar Ali Niazi
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Hajra Mansoor
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Khalifa Muhammad Irshad Beg
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Naseem Sultan
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Sahib Dino Mallah
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Satish Chandra Anand
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Rubeena Malik
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Muhammad Gul
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Mehnaz Hyat
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Abdul Qadir
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Zulfiqar Ali
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S. Amjad Bukhari
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S.H. Qasim Jalali
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Ustad Hussain Bukhsh Gullu
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Ustad Muhammad Alam
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Ustad
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Wazir Afzal
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Zafar Kazmi
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Mohsin Gillani
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Rahat Naveed Masud
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Muhammad Ajmal Khan
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Shahid Abdullah
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Ustad Shafiquz Zaman Khan
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Deeba (2020)

Ghulam Mohiuddin (2020)

Sahir Ali Bagga (2020)

Waris Baig (2020)

Ghulam Abbas 2020

Saieen Zahoor (2020)

Fareed Ayaz (2020)

Sarmad Sehbai (2021)

Resham (2021)

Khalid Masud Gondal (2021)

Muhammad Javed (2022)

Hafeez Tahir (2023)

Sangeeta (2023)

Sher Miandad Khan (2023)

Ustad Tafu (2023)

Anjuman (2023)

v
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Nigar Award for Best Actress
Urdu films

Sabiha Khanum (1957)

Musarrat Nazir (1958)

Musarrat Nazir (1959)

Nayyar Sultana (1960)

Musarrat Nazir (1961)

Nayyar Sultana (1962)

Sabiha Khanum (1963)

Shamim Ara (1964)

Shamim Ara (1965)

Zeba (1966)

Shamim Ara (1967)

Shamim Ara (1968)

Neelo (1969)

Zeba (1970)

Shabnam (1971)

Zeba (1972)

Shabnam (1973)

Shabnam (1974)

Shabnam (1975)

Babra Sharif (1976)

Shabnam (1977)

Sangeeta (1978)

Shabnam (1979)

Shabnam (1980)

Shabnam (1981)

Babra Sharif (1982)

Shabnam (1983)

Babra Sharif (1984)

Shabnam (1985)

Babra Sharif (1986)

Babra Sharif (1987)

Salma Agha (1988)

Kaveeta (1989)

Anjuman (1990)

Nadira (1991)

Ruby Niazi (1992)

Reema (1993)

Neeli (1994)

Zeba Bakhtiar (1995)

Meera (1996)

Neeli (1997)

Reema (1998)

Saima (1999)

Zara Sheikh (2000)

Meera (2001)

Sana (2002)

Saba Qamar (2018)

Punjabi films

Firdous (1970)

Rani Begum (1971)

Aliya Begum (1972)

Firdous (1973)

Neelo (1974)

Mumtaz (1975)

Neelo (1976)

Aasia (1977)

Najma (1978)

Mumtaz (1979)

Mumtaz (1980)

Anjuman (1981)

Anjuman (1982)

Rani Begum (1983)

Durdana Rehman (1984)

Mumtaz (1985)

Anjuman (1986)

Anjuman (1987)

Babra Sharif (1988)

Neeli (1989)

Babra Sharif (1990)

Neeli (1991)

Anjuman (1992)

Neeli (1993)

Reema (1994)

Reema (1995)

Saima (1996)

Reema (1997)

Saima (1998)

Reema (1999)

Saima (2000)

Television

Shehnaz Sheikh (1982)

Bushra Ansari (1984)

Marina Khan (1986)

Saba Hameed (1987)

Shakila Qureshi (1989)

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[1] Khalid Hasan (18 March 2005). "Looking for Musarrat Nazir (her Profile)". Academy of the Punjab in North America (APNA). Retrieved 24 April 2022. ... She was also chaperoned by her father to the studios: being just a simple, artless girl from a middle class family of Punjabi Kashmiris who had broken into the movies. ...

[APNA-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Khalid Hasan (18 March 2005). "Looking for Musarrat Nazir (her Profile)". Academy of the Punjab in North America (APNA). Retrieved 24 April 2022.

[DT-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Musarrat Nazir: the iconic heroine – Part II". Daily Times (newspaper). 31 August 2019. Retrieved 24 April 2022.

[cineplot-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Zurain Imam (27 September 2009). "Profile of Musarrat Nazir". Cineplot.com website. Archived from the original on 10 November 2011. Retrieved 24 April 2022.

[auto-5] "فلمی مٹیاراں". Samaa TV. 15 May 2016.

[citwf-6] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ "Filmography of Musarrat Nazir". Complete Index To World Film (CITWF) website. Archived from the original on 4 February 2019. Retrieved 24 April 2022.

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