Mumtaz Shanti (28 May 1926 – 19 October 1994) was an actress in
pre-partition Indian cinema
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.
Working in
Bollywood
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films of the 1940s and also the early 1950s, she moved to Pakistan after the partition of India and retired from her entertainment career.
She was known as "The Jubilee Girl''"'' because of her roles in films ''
Basant'' (1942) and ''
Kismet'' (1943).
[ She worked in films including '']Mangti
''Mangti'' is a 1942 Indian Punjabi-language film starring Masood Pervez in the titular role with Mumtaz Shanti and others. It ran for more than one year in Lahore and became the first Golden Jubilee Punjabi film in British India.
Music
The ...
'' (1942), ''Basant'' (1942), '' Badalti Duniya'' (1943), '' Kismet'' (1943), ''Dharti'' (1946), '' Ghar Ki Izzat'' (1948) and '' Aahuti'' (1950).[
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Early life
Mumtaz was born in 1926 in Dinga
Dinga, also spelled Deengah, is a city in the Gujrat District, in the province of Punjab, Pakistan.
It lies between the rivers Jhelum and Chenab. The main highway that runs from Lahore to Rawalpindi
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, in the Gujrat District
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of the Punjab Province of British India
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into a Punjabi Muslim
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The majority of Punjabi Musl ...
family. Mumtaz's mother died when she was very young and her aunt took care of her.[ Mumtaz's uncle encouraged her to learn singing and dancing when she was visiting ]Lahore
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. Wali Sahab spotted her and then she went to Calcutta
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and worked in ''Sohni Kumharan'' in 1937.[
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Career
Mumtaz Shanti's career peaked in the 1940s and early 1950s with hit movies like '' Basant'' (1942), '' Kismet'' (1943) with Ashok Kumar
Ashok Kumar (born Kumudlal Ganguly; 13 October 1911 – 10 December 2001), was an Indian actor who attained iconic status in Indian cinema. He is regarded as one of the greatest actors of Indian cinema. He is considered to be the first Super-st ...
, '' Badalti Duniya'' and ''Dharti'' with Trilok Kapoor
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Early and personal life
Born in the Kapoor Haveli i ...
, and '' Ghar Ki Izzat'' (1948) with a young Dilip Kumar
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.[ It ran for a record three years at Kolkata’s Roxy cinema. This record was broken 32 years later by '']Sholay
''Sholay'' (, ) is a 1975 Indian epic action-adventure film directed by Ramesh Sippy, produced by his father G. P. Sippy, and written by Salim–Javed. The film is about two criminals, Veeru (Dharmendra) and Jai (Amitabh Bachchan), hired ...
''.
Personal life
Mumtaz Shanti was married to Wali Sahab, a film director and writer in pre-partition Bollywood then after partition they both moved to Pakistan in the early 1950s and they had two sons together. Sahab died of heart failure in 1977.[
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Death
Mumtaz Shanti died in Pakistan on 19 October 1994.
Filmography
Film
References
External links
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1926 births
20th-century Indian actresses
Indian film actresses
20th-century Pakistani actresses
Actresses from Lahore
Actresses in Urdu cinema
1994 deaths
Actresses in Hindi cinema
Pakistani film actresses
Actresses in Punjabi cinema