Khurshid Begum(1914-2001)
- Actress
- Music Department
Khurshid started her film career way back in the late thirties and was
among the two surviving actresses to have shared stellar honours with
the renowned singer K.L. Saigal. Suraiya, another popular
singer-actress of the forties and fifties, remains the only one now.
Irshad Begum in real life, Khurshid had done a number of movies for
Ranjeet Movietone and her leading men included Saigol, Motilal,
Isharilal and Jairaj. Soon after partition she migrated to Pakistan and
settled down in Karachi, where she did only two movies, Mandi and
Fankar, both of which didn't fare well at the box-office. In 1956
Irshad Begum got married to Yusuf Bhaimia, and made philanthropy the
mainstay of her existence. Since then she refused to give interviews or
even talk about her film career. She was 79 when she passed away.
