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News Topical, Digital Desk : Name, money, fame, home, family, love...all these things remain here. There have been many stars in cinema who achieved everything, but unfortunately, they ended up alone. Something similar happened to one actress who married five times but remained single. She starred in many major films, but in the final stages of her life, she was left penniless. The pain of financial hardship was so severe that it seemed as if all her fame had been lost. Today, we will tell you the story of an actress who began working in cinema before Partition. However, having grown up in Pakistan, she remained in Pakistan and worked in many Hindi films. Let us tell you the painful story of that actress...
Meena was born in Pakistan.
We have only seen and read that the end of relationships is painful, but this is what happened with Meena Shauri. We will tell you the story of Meena's wandering from door to door in love later, but first let us know how Meena's childhood was spent. Meena Shauri was born in Punjab, which was a part of Pakistan. Although the two countries had not been divided then. Meena's real name was Khurshid Begum. Meena grew up in Lahore. Meena Shauri had to sleep under the blanket of poverty since her childhood.
Meena was the second of four siblings. Her father was a landowner, but after losing his property, everything was lost, and the family began to live in poverty. The financial crisis was so severe that her father would beat Meena's mother and sisters. Now, with an elder sister in the family, she was married off in Mumbai. Her elder sister was married into a good family. This desire brought Meena Shorey to Mumbai. Now, when Meena Shorey came to Mumbai, she tried to give wings to her dreams.
Sohrab Modi made Meena a heroine.
The story of Meena's coming to Mumbai was also interesting. Actually, Meena's father, who belonged to a Muslim family, did not want his daughter to become a heroine, but he too had to bow down to the circumstances. Meena's father allowed her to go to the play. Actually, Meena used to take part in plays at that time. Meanwhile, when Meena came to Mumbai, her brother-in-law took her to the muhurat set of a film. Here Sohrab Modi noticed Meena. This film was Sikandar, released in the year 1941, and in this film, Sohrab Modi, seeing Meena's beauty, offered her a role. Then what happened, Sohrab Modi made Khurshid Begum into Meena.
Lost big films due to contract
When the film Sikander became a hit, Meena started getting offers for many more films. Roop K. Shorey offered Meena to work in Shalimar and Mehboob Khan offered her work in Humayun. Apart from this, she started getting offers for many more films. Now Meena started getting recognition in films and her financial condition also started improving. However, in the meantime, she also had a dispute with Sohrab Modi because she had broken the contract of the film. In return, Meena was asked to pay Rs 3 lakh. However, later Sohrab Modi's wife got this amount reduced and the deal was settled for Rs 30 thousand. However, due to this contract, Meena had to lose many films.
While Meena's name became famous in films, something else was also happening in her personal life. While shooting for the film Sikandar, Meena fell in love with actor-producer Jagur Raja. The love blossomed
into marriage. Meena was only 19 years old at the time, and they married in 1941. The marriage didn't last even six months. They divorced within six months.
It is said that Sohrab Modi took advantage of Meena's contract after Partition
, while success awaited her. The India-Pakistan partition crippled Roop K. Shorey's business in Lahore. His studio was burned down, causing significant losses. He then returned to Mumbai with his unfinished Punjabi film, Chaman. He completed it with Meena's money. It was the first Punjabi superhit film after the India-Pakistan partition.
He also announced a new film, Ek Thi Ladki (1949). Motilal and Meena were paired in this film. The song, "Lara Lappa Lara Lappa...," became a huge hit. Lata Mangeshkar sang the song, and it resonated across both countries. It was a huge hit in India as well as Pakistan. Following this, Meena appeared in several films in India, including "Teri Nishani," "Anmol Ratan," "Dholak," and "Ek Do Teen."
Meena's five marriages were unsuccessful.
After her first marriage to Jagur Raja broke down, Meena married actor Al Nasir in 1945. The marriage went smoothly for a few days, but Meena and Al Nasir divorced a few days later, and this was revealed in 1947 when Al Nasir remarried. After two failed marriages, Meena's third marriage was to none other than filmmaker and actor Roop K. Shorey. After marrying Roop K. Shorey, Meena changed her surname, and the marriage lasted for many years. This led to her acting in several hit films and becoming known as a successful heroine.
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