Suraiya

Suraiya
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Background information
Birth name	Suraiya Jamaal Sheikh
Born	(1929-06-15)15 June 1929 Gujranwala, Punjab, British India (now in Punjab, Pakistan)
Died	Mumbai, Maharashtra India
Genres	Bhajan Filmi Devotional songs Ghazal Playback singing
Occupation(s)	Singer, actress
Years active	1937, 1941–1963

Suraiya Jamaal Sheikh (15 June 1929 – 31 January 2004) was an Indian film playback singer and actress in Bollywood in the 1940s and 1950s. She was one of the most popular actresses and singers of the Indian sub-continent of her generation.

She was the only child of her parents. She was not formally trained in music; yet she went on to become a most successful singing film actress. She first sang for a children's program for AIR All India Radio or (Akashvani) in 1937. She was a disciple of legendary Radio broadcaster Baba-e-Nasharayat (Father of Broadcasting) Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari.

Early life

Suraiya was born in Gujranwala, Punjab (British India) to the owner of a small furniture shop. Later her father moved to Lahore and Suraiya was taken to Bombay on the request of her mother, maternal grandmother and a maternal uncle named Zahoor Ahmad. No information on Suraiya's father is available after that time as to where he went or lived at.

She attended New Girls' (also known as) J.B. Petit High School for Girls, in Fort, Mumbai. She also received religious Islamic teachings in Persian at home.

Career

Suraiya made her debut as a child artist in Usne Kya Socha (1937). She got a prominent role as a child artist with the help of her uncle Zahoor Ahmad, who was then a popular villain in films. During a holiday from school in 1941, she accompanied him to Bombay's Mohan Studios to see the shooting of the film Taj Mahal (1941) which was being directed by Nanubhai Vakil. Vakil noticed Suraiya and not having in his mind, at that time, any particular young girl to play the role of young Mumtaz Mahal in his film Taj Mahal (1941), selected Suraiya to play that role.

While she was singing for a children's program for AIR (Akashvani (radio broadcaster)) in which Raj Kapoor and Madan Mohan used to be her co-artists.The former attained fame as an actor and a film maker, and latter as a music director respectively. The legendary Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari was then the station director at the AIR (Akashvani (radio broadcaster)) Bombay Radio Station and once Music Director Naushad Ali heard Suraiya's voice,he chose her to sing as a 13-year-old for Mehtaab in Abdul Rashid Kardar's film Sharda (1942). He became Suraiya’s mentor and she sang some of the best songs of her career under his baton. Later he gave hits after hits when Suraiya became full-fledged singing star in Anmol Ghadi (1946), Dard (1947), Dillagi (1949) and Dastaan (1950). Naushad Ali composed approximately 51 songs for Suraiya, coming at 2nd place after Husnlal Bhagatram for composing the highest number of songs for Suraiya.

As a child artist, Suraiya entered the film industry with film Taj Mahal (1941), for which maestro S.D. Burman, who was till then known for his Bengali songs, rendered his first Hindi song Prem ki Pyaari Nishani under the musical baton of Mishani Master. Suraiya's next assignment was for Tamanna (1942), for which she also rendered her first duet with then budding singer Manna Dey – Jaago aayi usha. It was tuned by Manna's uncle, the well known singer, music director and actor K.C. Dey.

Naushad

Suraiya graduated to adult roles with film Ishara (1943), playing second lead opposite small-timer Satish with Prithviraj Kapoor and Sawarn Lata playing the leading roles. In this movie, she had only two songs to her credit, a solo (Panghat pe muraliya baaje) and a (Baaghon mein koyal boli) with Satish. In films Station Master and Ishara, her voice was used for the character she played. As an adult, Suraiya initially played secondary roles in K. Asif's Phool, Mehboob Khan's Anmol Ghadi (1946), which was written by Aghajani Kashmeri also known as Kashmiri, and Dard (1947). She got a break as a heroine for the film Tadbir (1945) at the recommendation of K. L. Saigal, who liked her voice during a rehearsal. She went on to costar with Saigal in Omar Khayyam (1946) and Parwana (1947 film). Although by then she had a couple of hit songs, but the four solo songs which she sang in Parwana for music director Khwaja Khurshid Anwar made her a genuine singer-film star. She used to consider composer of these songs, Khwaja Khurshid Anwar as her favourite Music Director for whom she sang just thirteen songs during 1943 to 1949 period. More opportunities arose for Suraiya after reigning famous actress Noor Jehan and Khursheed Bano migrated to Pakistan following the independence of Pakistan in 1947.

As an actress, Suraiya had an edge over her contemporaries Kamini Kaushal and Nargis because she could sing her own songs. After three hits Pyar Ki Jeet (1948), Bari Bahen (1949), and Dillagi (1949), she became the highest paid female film star. But her reign at the top was brief; her films started flopping in the 1950s. She made a comeback in Waaris and Mirza Ghalib (film) (1954). Rustom Sohrab (1963) was the last film of her career.

In the late 1940s, she worked with Dev Anand. While shooting the film Vidya (1948), she became romantically involved with Dev Anand. The two of them were paired in seven films together: Vidya (1948), Jeet (1949), Shair (1949), Afsar (1950), Nili (1950), Do Sitare (1951) and Sanam (1951), all of which were successful at the box office. In these films, Suraiya was always first-biller in the credits, indicating that she was a bigger star than Dev Anand. She fell in love with him during the shooting of the song Kinare Kinare Chale Jaayen Gae from the film Vidya,while shooting the scene, the boat they were in capsized, and Dev Anand saved Suraiya from drowning. Their entire romantic affair was conducted in a clandestine manner, with friends like Durga Khote and Kamini Kaushal going out of their way to engineer secret meetings. On the sets of the film Jeet, Anand finally proposed to Suraiya and gave her a diamond ring worth Rupees 3,000 at the time. Her maternal grandmother opposed the relationship as they were Muslim and Anand was a Hindu.As it turned out, Suraiya remained unmarried by her own choice for the rest of her life.They stopped acting together after her grandmother opposed their partnership.

In a career spanning 22 years, Suraiya sang in five or six films and acted in approximately 65 movies which do not include the incomplete films like Jaanwar (with Dilip Kumar) and Paagal Khaana with Bharat Bhushan.

From the late forties to the early fifties, she remained the highest paid as well as the most popular star of the Indian cinema

As an actress

As a child artist, she acted in Tamanna (1942), Station Master (1942), and Hamari Baat(1943).

Suraiya graduated to adult roles with Ishara (1943), playing second lead opposite small-timer Satish with Prithviraj Kapoor and Sawarn Lata playing the leading roles. In this movie she had only two songs to her credit, a solo (Panghat pe muraliya baaje) and a duet (Baaghon mein koyal boli) with Satish. In Station Master, and Ishara, her voice was used for the film character.

As an adult, Suraiya initially played secondary roles opposite dancer Mumtaaz Ali, in the Devika Rani -Jairaj starrer Hamari Baat, in K. Asif's Phool, Mehboob Khan's Anmol Ghadi (1946), which was written by Agha Jani Kashmiri (also known as) Kashmiri, and Munnawar Sultana of film (Dard). She got a break as a heroine for the film Tadbir (1945) at the recommendation of K. L. Saigal, who liked her voice during a rehearsal. She went on to co-star with Saigal in Omar Khayyam (1946) and Parwana (1947). Then after that, with movie Dard (1947) she rose to fame and soon in the 1948-1949 phase, with her trio of hits, Pyar Ki Jeet, Badi Behan and Dillagi, she became the highest paid female star who regularly broke hearts and records.

Yet her reign at the top was brief and most of her 1950's films flopped till she made a short-lived comeback with Sohrab Modi’s film Mirza Ghalib (film) (1954), in which she made vivid, the role of the married Ghalib’s lover. Along with an emotionally fluid performance where her expressions of love, expectation and hurt just seemed to merge into one another, the queen of cadence also recorded what is still regarded by many as the definitive Ghalib. No less a personality than Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru praised her by saying, Tumne Mirza Ghalib Ki Rooh Ko Zinda Kar Diya, (You have brought Mirza Ghalib to life).

After Mirza Ghalib (film), she continued to work in movies as singing actress in movies like Bilwamangal (1954), Waris (1954), Shama Parwana (1954), Kanchan (which was scheduled to release in 1949 as Amar Kahani) (1955), Inam (1955), Mr. Lambu (1956), Trolly Driver (1958), Miss 1958 (1958), Maalik (1958), Shama (1961) and Rustom Sohrab (1963) was her last film.

As an actress, she worked the most with director D.D. Kashyap in 5 films – Aaj Ki Raat, Badi Behan, Kamal ke Phool, Do Sitare and Shama Parwana; with Abdul Rashid Kardar in four films – Dard, Dillagi, Dastaan and Deewana and with M. Sadiq in 4 films – Jagbiti, Dak Bangla, Kajal and Char Din. She shared great chemistry with director A.R. Kardar and three out of the four films they worked together were hits (Dard, Dillagi and Dastaan).

As a singer

Suraiya was not a trained singer yet she enjoyed fame as singing star. As a singing star, Suraiya started her career as a playback singer for actress Mehtab. She sang for Mehtaab in Sharda (1942), Kanoon (1943) and Sanjog (1943).

As a child actress she sang songs for her movies like in Taj Mahal (1941), for which maestro S.D. Burman, who was till then known for his Bengali songs, rendered his first Hindi song Prem ki pyaari nishani under the musical baton of Madhulal Master. Suraiya’s next assignment was for Tamanna (1942), for which she also rendered her first duet with then budding singer Manna Dey – Jaago aayi usha. It was tuned by Manna’s uncle the well known singer, music director and actor K.C. Dey.

After few other rather insignificant singing and acting assignments (Ujala, Station Master) maestro Naushad selected her as the playback voice for leading lady Mehtab in Sharda (1942). The movie became a turning point in Suraiya’s career as a singer, with two of her songs Panchhi ja, peechhe raha hai bachpan mera and Mere dil ko sajan samjhado becoming very popular. Incidentally, Mehtab was the only actress to whom Suraiya lent her voice in three movies (Sharda, Qanoon and Sanjog). Later, she continued to work with Naushad and in 1946 she worked with Noor Jehan in this movie she sang three songs and Man Leta Hai Angdai went viral. In a span of 22 years she had a number of hits. In her honey-rich voice in songs like Woh paas rahen ya door rahen, Tere naino ne chori kiya, Tu mera chaand main teri chaandni, Yaad karun tori batiya and the rare classical number, Manmor hua matwala, created hysteria. After many years of rendering her voice to other film actresses, she also sang for Nimmi in Shama (1961) besides singing for herself, because the other singer Suman Kalyanpur failed to dub her portion of the song. Also two of her songs – Hawa uda kar layi, O bewafa karke jafa – (music: Dhani Ram) recorded for an incomplete movie of hers, were later included in another film Taqdeer (1958) and picturised on its leading lady Shyama. Naushad Ali, Husnlal Bhagatram and Khwaja Khurshid Anwar played significant roles in Suraiya’s career but such stalwarts as Anil Biswas, S.D. Burman and Ghulam Mohammed also enhanced her popularity as a singer. Then there were other music directors she teamed up with just once or twice but rendered some extremely melodious though not so popular numbers.

Suraiya has the rare honour to work with many other singing-stars of her time including Noor Jehan (Anmol Ghadi), C.H. Atma (Bilwamangal), Talat Mahmood (Maalik and Waris), Mukesh (Mashuqa), K.L. Saigal (Tadbeer, Omar Khaiyyam and Parwana) and Surendra, (1857) and Anmol Ghadi.

Personal life

Suraiya was declared the first Melody Queen (Malika-e-Tarannum) in the sub-continent and much later Noor Jehan was awarded with the same title.

Her greatness can be judged by these comments. You have put life in the soul of Mirza Ghalib, were the remarks of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Indian Prime Minister. Suraiya was an ardent fan of the Hollywood star Gregory Peck. So much so that Dev Anand's initial years saw a lot of influence of Gregory Peck's mannerisms and style. Dev sahib had himself gone on record to say that there was a time when he was impressed by the Hollywood legend. Suraiya's romantic relationship with Dev Anand was fiercely opposed by her grand mother. In connection with the shooting of some film, Dev Anand happened to visit Mumbai where Suraiya met him after many years.

Last years and death

Suraiya lived in her apartment Krishna Mahal Marine Drive in Mumbai until her death in 2004 at age 74.

She was buried at Badakabarastan in Marine Lines, Mumbai.

Honours and recognitions

A postage stamp, bearing her face, was released by India Post to honour her on 3 May 2013.

Filmography

Year	Film	Director	Producer	Role	Cast	Music Director	Other notes
1937	Usne Kya Socha	–	–	–	–	–	Child artist
1941	Taj Mahal	Nanubhai Vakil	Mohan Pictures	Baby Mumtaz	Kumar, Sarojini, S. Nazir, Suraiya, Indurani, Khalil, Ram Marathe, Mubarak	Madhavlal Damodar	major break as child artist
1942	Station Master	C.M. Luhar	Prakash	Usha	Pratima Devi, Jagdish Sethi, Prem Adib, Jeevan, Umakant, Kaushalya, Shakir, Amirbai, Suraiya, Gulab, Ratnamala	Naushad
	Tamanna	Phani Majumdar	Laxmi Production		Jagdish Sethi, Shanta Kumari, Jairaj, Leela Desai, K. C. Dey, Karan Dewan, Suraiya, Rani	K.C. Dey	First duet with Manna Dey also first song for Manna Dey.
1943	Ishara	J. K. Nanda	D. R. D. Production		Jagdish Sethi, Pratima Devi, K. N. Singh, Prithviraj Kapoor, Swarnalata, Suraiya, Satish, Vatsala Kumtekar, Masood	Khurshid Anwar
	Humari Baat	M. I. Dharamsey	Bombay Talkies		Arun Kumar, Kamta Prasad, Dulari, Suraiya, Devika Rani, David Abraham, Shah Nawaz, Raj Kapoor, Prabha, Mumtaz Ali, Jairaj	Anil Biswas
1945	Yateem	Zia Sarhady	Gautam Chitra		E. Billimoria, Chandraprabha, Yakub, Suraiya, Uday Kumar, Bhudo Advani, David Abraham, Lalita Pawar, Charlie	Khurshid Anwar
	Tadbir	Jayant Desai	Jayant Desai Production	Sugana	Rehana, Jilloo Maa, K. L. Saigal, Mubarak, Suraiya, Salvi, Rewa Shankar, Shashi Kapoor, Shalini	Lal Mohammed
	Samrat Chandragupta	Jayant Desai	Jayant Desai Production		Ishwarlal, Mubarak, Nayampally, Renuka Devi, Suraiya, Sulochana Chatterji	C. Ramchandra
	Phool	K. Asif	Famous Pictures		Wasti, Veena, Suraiya, Prithviraj, Yakub, Dixit, Ashraf Khan, Agha, Mazhar Khan, M. Esmail, Jilloo Maa, Sitara, Durga Khote	Ghulam Haider		Jeet	a	xxx Pictures		Dev Anand, Suraiya, Madan Puri ]]
	Main Kya Karu	Sudhir Sen	Flora Pictures		Shah Nawaz, Suraiya, Pahari Sanyal, Hansa Wadkar, Bikram Kapoor, E. Billimoria	Ninu Majumdar
1946	Jag Biti	M. Sadiq	Din Pictures		Suraiya, Shakir, Sulochana Chatterji, Abbas, Himalayawala, Bibi, Sadiq Ali	Ghulam Haider
	1857	Mohan Sinha	Muarai Pictures		Wasti, Surendra, Suraiya, Nigar, Madan Puri, Leela, Menaka, Ganju, Munshi Khanjar, LaxmiSuraiya, Shakir, Sulochana Chatterji, Abbas, Himalayawala, Bibi, Sadiq Ali	Sajjad Hussain
	Anmol Ghadi	Mehboob Khan	Mehboob Production	Basanti	Surendra, Noorjahan, Suraiya, Zahur Raja, Leela Misra, Anwari, Bhudo Advani, Murad, Amir Banu	Naushad	Sliver Jubliee
	Omar Khaiyyam	Mohan Sinha	Muarai Pictures		Suraiya, K.L. Saigal, Wasti, Benjamin, Shakir, Leela, Madan Puri, Muzammil	Lal Mohammed
1947	Parwana	J.K. Nanda	Jeet Productions	Gopi	K. N. Singh, K. L. Saigal, Suraiya, S. Nazir, Azurie, Najam	Khurshid Anwar
	Natak	S.U.Sunny	Kardar Productions		Pratima Devi, Amar, Suraiya, Sofia, Kanwar, Shyam Kumar, Amir Ali, Nazir Vedi, Nawab, Suleman	Naushad
	Do Dil	Jagdish Sethi	Jamana Production		Badri Prasad, Motilal, Suraiya, Karan Dewan, Gulab	Gobind Ram
	Dard	A.R. Kardar	Kardar Productions		Pratima Devi, Badri Prasad, Husn Banu, Munawwar Sultana, Nasrat, Suraiya, Shyam Kumar	Naushad
	Dak Bangla	M.Sadiq	Indian National		M. Esmail, Suraiya, Gope, Kamal Kapoor, Wasti	Naresh Bhattacharya
1948	Aaj ki Raat	D.D Kashyap	Famous Pictures		Motilal, Suraiya, Yakub, Leela Misra, Raj Mehra, Anita Sharma, Sangeeta, Shah Nawaz	Husnlal Bhagatram
	Vidya	G.Tripathi	Jeet Pictures	Vidya	Suraiya, Maya Banerji, Gulam Mohamed, Madan Puri, Amibai Karnataki, Cuckoo, Munshi Khanjar, Dev Anand	S.D. Burman
	Shakti	S.I. Hasan	Greater Bombay Pictures		Kailash, Karan Dewan, Suraiya, Sofia, Maya Devi, Seeta Bose, Cuckoo, Mumtaz Ali, Murad	Ram Prasad
	Rang Mahal	Pandit Anand Kumar	Eastern Pictures		Suresh, Suraiya, Anant Marathe, Lalita Pawar, Shah Nawaz	K. Datta
	Pyar Ki Jeet	O.P. Dutta	Famous Pictures		Gyani, Rehman, Suraiya, Gope, Raj Mehra, Manorama, Leela Misra, Yashodhara Katju, Niranjan Sharma	Husnlal Bhagatram
	Kajal	M.Sadiq	Ratan Pictures		Suraiya, Jayant, Gope, Sharda, Ram Kamlani, Cuckoo, Wasti, Amir Banu	Ghulam Mohammed
	Gajre	R.D.Mathur	Ailled Art Production		Motilal, Suraiya, Agha, Nihal, Sangeeta, Geeta Nizami, Sankatha Prasad, Murad	Anil Biswas
1949	Singaar	J.K.Nanda	Haldia Nanda Production		Jairaj, Suraiya, Madhubala, Madan Puri, Randhir, K. N. Singh, Durga Khote	Khurshid Anwar
	Shair	Chawla	Jagat Pictures	Vidya	Cuckoo, Dev Anand, Kamini Kaushal, Murad, Suraiya, Agha, Sulochana, Shyama, Dulari	Ghulam Mohammed
	Naach	Ravindra Dave	Kuldip Pictures		Shyam, Suraiya, Kuldip, Raj Mehra, Gulab, Yashodhara Katju, Sofia, Shyama, Wasti, Om Prakash	Husnlal Bhagatram
	Lekh	G.Rakesh	Liberty Art Production		Anand Pal, Cuckoo, Motilal, Suraiya, Ishu, Jagirdar, Sitara	Krishan Dayal
	Jeet	Mohan Sinha	Raj Kriti Chitra		Shree Bhagwan, Durga Khote, Dev Anand, Suraiya, Kanhaiyalal, Madan Puri, Suraiya Choudhary, Habib	Anil Biswas
	Duniya	S.F Hussain	Fazli Bros		Anwari, Karan Dewan, Suraiya, Yakub, Bhudo Advani, Shakila, Zubeida, Jankidas	C. Ramchandra
	Dillagi	A.R.Kardar	Kardar Production		Chandabai, Amir Banu, Shyam, Suraiya, Sharda, Amar	Naushad
	Char Din	M.Sadiq	Ratan Pictures		Badri Prasad, Om Prakash, Shyam, Suraiya, Jayant, Randhir, Mohana, Shyama, Cuckoo	Shyam Sunder
	Balam	Homi Wadia	Wadia Movietone		Wasti, Nigar Sultana, Suraiya, Masood, Jayant, Agha	Husnlal Bhagatram
	Badi Bahen	D.D. Kashyap	Famous Pictures		Suraiya, Ulhas, Gulab, Roop Kamal, Tabassum, Shanti Madhok, Niranjan Sharma, Ram Avtaar, Geeta Bali, Pappu, Rehman, Pran	Husnlal Bhagatram
	Amar Kahani	Baij Sharma	Kamal Kunj Chitra		Jairaj, Suraiya, Mehta, Ranjana	Husnlal Bhagatram
1950	Shaan	Jayant Desai	Kuldip Pictures		Pratima Devi, Cuckoo, Suraiya, Sapru, Manorama, David Abraham, Rehman	Hansraj Behl
	Nilli	Ratibhai Punatkar	Ranjit Film Company	Vidya	Suraiya, Agha, Shyama, Dulari, Cuckoo, Dev Anand	S. Mohinder
	Khiladi	Talwar	Talwar Films		Ashok Kumar, Suraiya, Kumar, Indu, E. Tarapore, Anoop Kumar, Narbada Shanker, Sunder, Cuckoo	Hansraj Behl
	Kamal Ke Phool	D.D. Kashyap	Famous Pictures		Badri Prasad, Suraiya, Jeevan, Raj Mehra, Leela Misra, Niranjan Sharma, Shakuntala, Amarnath	Shyam Sunder
	Dastan	A.R. Kardar	Musical Pictures		Pratima Devi, Raj Kapoor, Al Nasir, Murad, Suraiya, Veena, Suresh, Shakila	Naushad
	Afsar	Chetan Anand	Nav Ketan		Rashid Khan, Suraiya, Manmohan Krishna, Kanhaiyalal, Krishna Dhawan, Zohra Sehgal, Anand Pal, Dev Anand	S.D. Burman
1951	Shokiyan	Kidar Sharma	Ambitious Pictures		Nazira, Shanta Kanwar, Premnath, Suraiya, Jeevan, Kamlesh, Achla Sachdev, Rajendra Vyas, Ramesh Sinha	Jamal Sen
	Sanam	Nandlal Jaswantlal	United Technicians	Vidya	Jilloo Maa, Pratima Devi, Suraiya, Gope, Meena Kumari, Dev Anand, K. N. Singh	Husnlal Bhagatram
	Rajput	Lekhraj Bhakri	Jubilee Pictures		Shakuntala, Jairaj, Suraiya, Sapru, Kuldip Kaur, Mumtaz, Maruti, Randhir	Hansraj Behl
	Do Sitare	D.D. Kashyap	Famous Pictures		Suraiya, Kuldip Kaur, Mumtaz, Baij Sharma, Prem Nath, Dev Anand, Shakuntala	Anil Biswas
1952	Resham	Lekhraj Bhakri	Jubilee Pictures		Sunder, Jairaj, Suraiya, Sapru, Naaz, Achla Sachdev, Khurshid, Ramesh Thakur, Jagdish	Hansraj Behl
	Moti Mahal	Ravindra Dave	Nigaristan Films	Vidya	Ajit, Veera, Suraiya, Jeevan, Tabassum, Satish	Hansraj Behl
	Lal Kunwar	Ravindra Dave	Nigaristan Films		Nasir Khan, Suraiya, Jairaj, Usha Kiran, Agha, Durga Khote	S.D.Burman
	Khubsoorat	S.F. Hussain	Fazli Bros.		Nasir Khan, Suraiya, Yakub, Bhudo Advani, Zubeida, Jankidas	Madan Mohan
	Goonj	Phani Majumdar	Kwarta Art Production		Bhagwan, Suresh, Suraiya, Sapru, Majnu, Madan Puri, Randhir, Ravikant	Sardul Sharma
	Diwana	A.R.Kardar	Kardar Production		Suresh, Suraiya, Sumitra Devi, Shyam Kumar, Ramesh, Madan Puri, Banerjee, Amirbai Karnataki, Amir Ali	Naushad
1953	Mashuqa	Shanti Kumar	Chitrakar		Suraiya, Agha, Kuldip Kaur, Durga Khote, Amirbai Karnataki, Mukesh	Roshan
1954	Mirza Ghalib	Sohrab Modi	Minerva Movietone		Bharat Bhushan, Murad, Durga Khote, Jagdish Sethi, Suraiya, Nigar Sultana, Mukri, Baij Sharma, Kumkum, Sadat Ali, Iftekhar, Roshan	Ghulam Mohammed
	Bilwamangal	D.N. Madhok	Minar Movies	Vidya	C. H. Atma, Suraiya, Nirupa Roy, Ulhas, Asha Mathur	Bulo C Rani
	Waris	Nitin Bose	Minerva Movietone	Shobha	Jagdish Sethi, Suraiya, Talat Mehmood, Nadira, Sadat Ali, Meheli Modi, Yakub, Achla Sachdev, Roopmala	Anil Biswas
	Shama Parwana	D.D. Kashyap	Kashyap Production		Shammi Kapoor, Suraiya, Roop Mala, Ulhas, Sunder, Mubarak	Husnlal Bhagatram
1955	Kanchan	Baij Sharma	Kamal Kunj Chitra		Jairaj, Suraiya, Mehta, Ranjana	Husnlal Bhagatram
	Inam	M.I. Dharamsey	Zodiac Pictures		Pratima Devi, Nasir Khan, Suraiya, Yakub, Bimla Kumari, Mukri	S. N. Tripathi
1956	Mr. Lambu	N.A.Ansari	Sheikh Mukhtar		Bhagwan, Helen, Sheikh Mukhtar, Suraiya, Kamaljeet, Vijayalaxmi, N. A. Ansari, Minoo Mumtaz	O.P.Nayyar
1958	Trolly Driver	Gajanan Jagirdar	Divya Jyot Production		Rehman, Cuckoo, Pratima Devi, Bhagwan, Suraiya, Jagirdar, Usha Kiran, Madan Puri	Husnlal Bhagatram
	Miss	Kuldip Kahar	A.K. Movies		Om Prakash, Suraiya, Karan Dewan, Madan Puri, Naaz, Krishna Kumari	N. Dutta
	Malik	S.M. Yusuf	Sunny Art Productions		Jagdeep, Lalita Pawar, Roopmala, Suraiya, Talat Mehmood, Jeevan, Mukri, Radhakrishen, Kumar	Ghulam Mohammed
1961	Shama	Lekhraj Bhakri	Tasveeristan		Kumud Tripathi, Nimmi, Vijay Dutt, Suraiya, Kumar, Kammo, Tarun Bose, Mumtaz Begum, Tuntun, Leela Misra, Renu Maker	Ghulam Mohammed
1963	Rustam-E-Sohrab	Vishram Bedekar	Ramsay Productions		Murad, Prithviraj Kapoor, Suraiya, Premnath, Mumtaz, Azad, Merlyn, Hiralal, P. Kailash, Sajjan	Sajjad Hussain

External links

• Legends – Suraiya: Her profile, Interview, complete list of her songs and reviews of her films
• Suraiya at the Internet Movie Database
• Suraiya: the reluctant goddess Indian Express.
• Suraiya's songs online