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ISLAMABAD: Legendary vocalist and actress Malika-e-Tarannum Noor Jehan was remembered on her 19th death anniversary on Monday.She was
renowned as one of the greatest and most influential singers of her time in South Asia and was given the honorific title of
Malika-e-Tarannum.Noor Jehan had started her musical career from Calcutta at the age of nine as a singer child star.She inherited music as
she was born in a music family.Noor Jehan, also known as Malika-e-Tarannum (Queen of Melody) sang thousands of songs during her career.After
partition, she moved from Bombay and started her film career in Pakistan as actress, singer and the first female film director with film
Her last film Ghalib was released in 1961.Noor Jehan ruled the film industry for more than 35 years and sung appropriately 6000 songs for
Urdu, Punjabi and Sindhi films.She received many awards‚ including the highest Pakistani honor in entertainment Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (The Pride
of Performance) in 1966.Malika-e-Tarrannum national patriotic songs, during 1965 Pak- India War, are an important part of our national
history.Noor Jehan died on December 23, 2000 in Karachi.TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the source
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