Meena Shorey Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Meena Shorey Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Meena Shorey (13 September 1926 â€" 3 September 1989) was a Pakistani

film actress who worked first in Indian cinema and later Pakistani

cinema. She appeared Hindi/Urdu and Punjabi films. Credited in films

by her mononym, Meena, her real name was Khurshid Jehan. She started

her acting career playing a character role, as Ambhi, Raja of Taxila's

sister in Sohrab Modi's Sikandar (1941). Married to her third husband,

Roop K. Shorey, by the mid-1940s, she found fame when she acted in her

husband's film Ek Thi Larki (1949), opposite actor Motilal. The story

was written by I. S. Johar, who also starred in the film. The

"foot-tapping" music composed by Vinod became a "huge hit", with Meena

becoming an "icon" for the "new liberated" young women. Meena was

acclaimed as the "Lara Lappa Girl", from the song of same title in the

film. She was one of the first women to be recognised in Indian cinema

as a "comedienne of calibre".In 1956, she went to Lahore, Pakistan

with her husband, where they were invited by Pakistani producer J.C.

Anand to make a film there following her mass popularity with the

public in both India and Pakistan.. The film Shorey made was Miss 56,

a copy of the Guru Dutt-Madhubala starrer Mr. & Mrs. '55. Instead of

returning to India when her husband did, she decided to stay back in

Pakistan, continuing her acting career there. Some of her best films

in India included the Punjabi film Chaman (1948), Actress (1948), Ek

Thi Ladki (1949), Dholak (1951), and Ek Do Teen (1953).Meena was born

Khurshid Jehan, on 17 November 1921, in Raiwind, Punjab, British

India, the second of four children. Her family was poor and her father

squandered what little property they had. He then worked at a dyeing

business in Lahore, which also failed. Meena's elder sister, Wazir

Begum, who was married and lived in Bombay, had their mother and

siblings come there. Sohrab Modi noticed Meena at the launch of his

film Sikandar (1941), which she attended with her brother-in-law, and

offered her a supporting role in the film, giving her the name, Meena.
Meena Shorey Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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