When singing star Suraiya rendered this legendary ghazal of Mirza Ghalib for Sohrab Modi’s film on the bard in the early ’50s, she perhaps drew from the recesses of her ravaged heart. That alone ...
Suraiya Gradually Withdrew From The Limelight And Just In Her Early 30s, Turned Her Back On The Tinsel World Forever(Pic Credit: Movie Still) At the start of her singing career, she needed to stand on ...
Suraiya was the last illustrious singer actor to play that dual role in cinema before it was seized by the playback singers in the late 1940s. Starting as a child artiste, Suraiya’s career reached its ...
If Suraiya was a very accomplished singer, she was also one of the most popular and acclaimed actresses of her time. Almost all her songs were self-sung on screen. That again made her unique. In a ...
In the 70s, iconic feminist author Ismat Chughtai wrote about the legendary actor for a Karachi-based Urdu magazine. Here is a translation of the piece that talked about Suraiya’s attitude towards ...
In a revealing 1972 interview, Suraiya shared insights into her clandestine romance with Dev Anand. Amidst her strict grandmother's watchful eyes, the couple found ways to nurture their love away from ...
Dev Anand had come into Hindi films like a gush of a fresh wind which had never blown before in the early forties and within a short time had become a symbol of youth on the move, romance that was ...
On the occasion of late superstar Dev Anand's 99th birth anniversary, we recall the times when the actor talked about his first love, Suraiya. The two had worked together in quite a few films like ...
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