Lollywood Flashback Sound of Lollywood: Listen to Noor Jehan letting it rip in Punjabi ‘Lahori Badshah’ is proof that the singer is in her element in Punjabi rather than in Urdu.

Thousands of songs she sang over five decades in both Urdu and Punjabi made her the region’s most popular singer of the 20th century and an epic cultural figure.

Noor Jehan was among the few Punjabi-origin singing actresses of the sub-continental silver screen, who are remembered for their wholesome contribution to the promotion of film music.

Malika-e-Tarrannum’s 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.

She sung appropriately more than six thousand songs in Urdu, Punjabi and Sindhi films. She legendary playback singer Malika-e-Tarannum Noor Jehan was an equally proficient ghazal singer.