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Meena Shorey is a Actor born on 17 november 1921
Meena Shorey (1921–1989) was an Indian cinema and later Pakistani cinema actress, who worked in 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 Ladki (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).
She lived a life of penury towards the end, with her funeral arrangements made by "charity money". She died on 9 February 1989, in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
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Birth name Khurshid Jehan
Birth 17 november 1921
Death 9 february 1989 (at 67 years)
Birth 17 november 1921
Death 9 february 1989 (at 67 years)
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).
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Meena is reported to have married five times. Her first marriage was to actor-producer-director Zahur Raja. In Filmindia April 1942, it was mentioned in an interview with Zahur Raja that Zahur and Meena were married for the last "six months". The two met while shooting for Sikandar and fell in love. "Zahur has been married for six months to Meena, a pretty young actress who is at present making probably her last film Phir Milenge". Her second marriage was to actor and co-star, Al Nasir. She separated from him by mid-40s. Baburao Patel mentioned him as her ex-husband in a column in Filmindia August 1946, "Al Nasir, the once reported ex-husband of film actress Meena, is now reported to have married film actress Manorama of Punjab". Her third marriage was to Roop K. Shorey which lasted till 1956. She is reported to have then married Raza Mir, and later Asad Bokhari, her co-star in Jamalo (1962).She lived a life of penury towards the end, with her funeral arrangements made by "charity money". She died on 9 February 1989, in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
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Chandu (1957)
Actors Shashikala, Mehmood Ali, Om Prakash, Pran Krishan Sikand, Gope, Meena Shorey
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Ek Do Teen (1953)
, 2hActors Motilal, Iftekhar, Meena Shorey
Roles Roma
Roma (Meena Shorey) is on her way home after celebrating with her friends at Asha's (Yashodra Katju) place when she is attacked by two robbers who try to steal her purse. She faints as one of them brandishes a knife. Motilal (Motilal) and his friend Hiralal (Majnu) are driving through there and scare away the robbers. After wondering what to do with the unconscious women, they take her to Moti’s house to render treatment. Roma makes a phone call to her father Seth Madanlal (K. N. Dhar) to tell him her whereabouts, but he is too angry to know the reason why she is there except to ask her the address. On arriving and seeing her with two men, he gets angry and starts shouting which wakes up Motilal’s father Seth Ramlal (Romesh Thakur) and he appears downstairs. The two fathers fight loudly and Roma is taken away by her father.
Ek Thi Ladki (1949)
, 2h44Genres Drama
Actors I. S. Johar, Meena Shorey, Motilal, Kuldip Kaur, Agha
Roles Meena
Rating68%
The movie is based on Meena (Meena Shorey) who is running away from two men, who are blackmailing her for a crime she did not commit. Along the way she meets Ranjeet (Motilal), who is engaged to be married to the daughter of his boss but falls in love with Meena.
Sikandar (1941)
, 2h26Directed by Sohrab Merwanji Modi
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Peplum
Themes Politique, Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Prithviraj Kapoor, Sohrab Merwanji Modi, Meena Shorey, K. N. Singh (Krishan Niranjan Singh), Noor Jehan
Rating70%
The film begins after Alexander the Great (Sikander in Hindi/Urdu) conquers Persia and the Kabul valley and approaches the Indian border at Jhelum. Sohrab Modi plays the Indian king Puru (Porus to the Greeks).
Phir Milenge (1941)
, 2h27Directed by Sohrab Merwanji Modi
Actors K. N. Singh (Krishan Niranjan Singh), Sardar Akhtar, Meena Shorey