Meena Shorey Biography, Latest Photos, Movies List

Meena Shorey
Shorey in Actress (1948)
Born	Khurshid Jehan 13 September 1926[1] Raiwind, Punjab, British India
Died	3 September 1989 (aged 62) Lahore, Pakistan
Resting place	Lahore
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1941–1979
Spouse(s)	Zahur Raja Al Nasir Roop K. Shorey Raza Mir Asad Bokhari

Meena Shorey (13 September 1926 – 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.^[2] She was one of the first women to be recognised in Indian cinema as a "comedienne of calibre".^[3]

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.^[4] 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 Movies List

In India[edit]

List:^[20][5]

Year	Film	Director	Co-stars	Composer	Studio/Producer
1941	Sikandar[5] (Alexander)	Sohrab Modi	Sohrab Modi, Prithviraj Kapoor, Vanmala, Zahur Raja	Mir Saheb, Rafiq Ghaznavi	Minerva Movietone
1942	Phir Milenge[5]	Sohrab Modi	Sohrab Modi, Sardar Akhtar, K. N. Singh	Mir Saheb	Minerva Movietone
1943	Prithvi Vallabh	Sohrab Modi	Sohrab Modi, Durga Khote, K. N. Singh, Al Nasir, Vanmala	Rafiq Ghaznavi, Saraswati Devi	Minerva Movietone
1943	Sahara	J. P. Advani (Jagatrai Pesumal Advani)	Renuka Devi, Narang, Pran	Gobind Ram	Vaswani Art Productions
1944	Pattharon Ka Saudagar	Shorey Daulatvi	Al Nasir, Sheela, K. N. Singh	Mir Saheb	Minerva Movietone
1945	Bhai Jaan	S. Khalil	Noor Jehan, Karan Dewan, Anees Khatoon, Shah Nawaz	Shyam Sunder	United Films
1945	Neelam	Essa	Sadhana Bose, Khursheed, Harish	Khan Mastana	A. H. Productions
1946	Shehar Se Door	Barkat Mehra	Al Nisar, Om Prakash, Ajmal	Amarnath	Pradhan Pictures
1947	Arsi	Daud Chand	Al Nasir, Pran, Cuckoo, Asha Posle	Lachhiram, Shyam Sunder	Jeewan Pictures
1947	Ek Teri Nishani	B. K. Sagar	Trilok Kapoor, Om Prakash, Shyama, I. S. Johar	Amarnath, Sardul Kwatra	Kwatra Art
1948	Actress	Najam Naqvi	Rehana, Prem Adeeb, David, Misra, Abbas Nausha, Mukri	Shyam Sunder	Filmistan
1948	Dukhiyari	D. K. Ratan	Surendra, Trilok Kapoor, Chandra Mohan, Cuckoo	Gyan Dutt	Jeevan Jyot Kala
1948	Chaman	Roop K. Shorey	Meena Shorey, Karan Dewan, Majnu, Shyama	Vinod	Shorey Films
1948	Patjhad[6] (Autumn)	Ravindra Dave	Geeta Bali, Om Prakash, Amarnath	Ghulam Haider, S. D. Batish	Pancholi Art
1949	Ek Thi Larki[5]	Roop K. Shorey	Motilal, Kuldip Kaur, I. S. Johar, Majnu	Vinod	Shorey Films
1949	Zevaraat	Habib Sarhadi	Yakub, Masood, Jayant	Hansraj Behl	Habib Productions
1950	Anmol Ratan[5] (Rare Jewel)	M. Sadiq	Karan Dewan, Nirmala, Gulab, Gope	Vinod	Dewan Productions
1950	Raj Rani	Satish Nigam	Usha Kiran, Rehman, Satish	Hansraj Behl	Jagat Pictures
1951	Dholak	Roop K. Shorey	Ajit, Majnu, Manmohan Krishna, Yashodhara Katju	Shyam Sunder	Shorey Films
1951	Kale Badal (Black Clouds)	Anant Thakur	Shyam, Pushpa Hans, Jeevan	Shyam Sunder	National Film of India
1952	Ajeeb Ladki	Mohammed Ehsan	Naseem Banu, Rehman, Shashikala	Ghulam Mohammed	Taj Mahal Pictures
1953	Ek Do Teen[5]	Roop K. Shorey	Motilal, Satish, Majnu, Yashodhara Katju	Vinod	Shorey Films
1953	Aag Ka Dariya	Roop K. Shorey	Karan Dewan, Prithviraj Kapoor, Shammi, Majnu	Vinod	Shorey Films
1954	Raman	Hiren Bose	Karan Dewan, Purnima, Om Prakash, Majnu, Cuckoo	Vinod	Metropolitan Films
1955	Jalwa	Roop K. Shorey	Karan Dewan, Begum Para, Majnu, Hari Shivdasani	Vinod	Shorey Films
1955	Shri Naqad Narayan (Money)	K. D. Mehra, I. S. Johar	Motilal, Majnu, Om Prakash, Badri Prasad	Vinod	Kanav Brothers Productions
1956	Shrimati 420[5]	G. P. Sippy	Johnny Walker, Om Prakash	N. Dutta	Sippy Films
1958	Chandu[5] (1958)	Majnu	Om Prakash, Shashikala, Mehmood and Pran	Bipin Babul	N. R. Productions

In Pakistan[edit]

List:^[20][15]

Year	Film	Director	Co-stars	Composer	Studio/Producer
1956	Sarfarosh (side role)[6]	Anwar Kamal Pasha	Sabiha Khanum, Santosh, Allauddin, Asif Jah	Rasheed Attre	Anwar Kamal Pasha
1956	Miss 56[20] (lead actress)	Roop K. Shorey	Santosh, Aslam Pervaiz, Shamim Ara, Noor Mohammed Charlie	Ghulam Ahmed Chishti	J.C. Anand
1957	Bara Aadmi[20] (lead actress)	Humayun Mirza	Ejaz Durrani, Allauddin, M. Ismail	Ghulam Nabi, Abdul Latif	Husain D. Silva
1958	Sitaron ki Duniya (lead actress)	M. H. Mohib	Sheda Imam, Rukhsana, Noor Mohammed Charlie	Zafar Khursheed	Sheda Imam
1958	Aakhri Nishan (lead actress)	Ashfaq Malik	Sudhir, Neelo, Nazar, Talish, Allauddin	Rehman Verma	Vaswani Art Productions
1958	Jagga (lead actress, Punjabi)	Saqlain Rizvi	Ilyas Kashmiri, Salim Raza, Zeenat Begum	Ghulam Ahmed Chishti, Rasheed Attre	Faqir Shah
1959	Bacha Jamoora	Aslam Irani	Akmal Khan, Nayyar Sultana, Ilyas Kashmiri, Ajmal	Rafiq Ali	Akbar Irani
1959	Gulshan	Jaffer Malik	Sudhir, Aslam Pervaiz, Allauddin	Rasheed Attre	M. Ghulam Nabi
1960	Behrupia	Aslam Irani	Akmal Khan, Nayyar Sultana, Zarif, Ajmal	Tufail Farooqi	M. Ashiq, M. Taj
1961	Gulfarosh	Zahur Raja	Nayyar Sultana, Zahur Raja, Naeem Hashmi, Kamal	Tassaduq Hussain	Anwar Kamal Pasha
1962	Mauseeqar	Qadir Ghori	Sabiha Khanum, Santosh Kumar, Abbas Nosha, Nusrat Kardar	Rasheed Attre	Rasheed Attre
1962	Jamalo [6]	M. J. Rana	Asad Bukhari, Naghma, A. Shah, Ajmal, Zarif	Ghulam Ahmed Chishti	Wazir Ali
1963	Maa Beti	Choudhary Latif	Yasmin, Yousuf Khan, Akmal Khan, Rukhsana	Safdar Hussain	Choudhary Latif
1963	Teen Aur Teen (3 Aur 3)	Sheikh Iqbal	Habib, Lehri, Jafri, Sheikh Iqbal	Rehman Verma, G. A. Chisti	Rekha Iqbal
1963	Yahudi Ki Ladki	Chawla	Nayyar Sultana, Darpan, Talish	Muslehudin	Saghar Jaffery
1964	Phool Aur Kante	Sheikh Iqbal	Habib, Tarana, Saba, Saqi	M. A. Munoo	M. Ashraf
1964	Khamosh Raho[6]	Jameel Akhtar	Deeba, Yousuf Khan, Mohammad Ali	Khalil Ahmad	T. H. Rizvi
1964	Azad	Dilshad Malik	Santosh, Bahar, Yousuf Khan, Asad Bukhari, M. Ismael, Allauddin	Rasheed Attre	Fayyaz Malik
1964	Andhi Mohabbat	Amin Malik	Laila, Akmal Khan, Nusrat Kardar, Talish	Manzoor Ashraf	M. Nasim
1968	Adalat	Hassan Tariq	Zeba, Haidar, Rani, Rukhsana, Aslam Pervaiz, Talish	Tasadduq Hussain	G. S. & Co.
1969	Najo	Qadeer Ghori	Firdous, Ejaz Durrani, Aliya, Zeenat Begum, Asad Bukhari	Manzoor Ashraf	S. Sheikh, Qadeer Ghori
1976	Waada	Aslam Dar	Asiya, Waheed Murad, Deeba, Saiqa, Lehri	Kemal Ahmad	Asghar Joora

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