Mala Begum was a top female singer and only the second best to Madam Noor Jehan as playback singer.
Mala Begum started her career somewhere around the late ’50s. She sung more than 300 songs in almost two decades singing career.
Prominent musician GA Chishti introduced her in a Punjabi film ‘Aabroo’ in 1961. Her first Urdu film was Suraj Mukhi in which she changed her name to Mala and sang a simple Urdu composition, Aaya re dekho for the film Sooraj Mukhi (1962). But she got breakthrough from film Mehboob in 1962 with this super hit song: Sapno mein urri urri jaun.
Prominent musician GA Chishti introduced her in a Punjabi film ‘Aabroo’ in 1961. Her first Urdu film was Suraj Mukhi in which she changed her name to Mala and sang a simple Urdu composition, Aaya re dekho for the film Sooraj Mukhi (1962). But she got breakthrough from film Mehboob in 1962 with this super hit song: Sapno mein urri urri jaun
Mala was born in Faisalabad, her real name was Naseem Begum and she was the younger sister of Pakistan’s first female music director Shamim Nazli. She died on March 6, 1990.
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