NEW DELHI: If famous Hindi cinema is a continuing adventure of songs and dances in the1950s and 60s, Minoo Mumtaz became one of its surefooted and effervescent practitioners. Two pleasant tracks that she pranced to are completely lodged in the rucksack of public memory: ‘Boojh mera kya naam re’ (movie: CID, 1956) and ‘Saakiya aaj mujhe neend nahi aayegi’ (movie: Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam, 1962).
The sister of the famed comic Mehmood, who additionally acted because the main heroine opposite Balraj Sahni in the crime thriller, Black Cat (1959), passed away on Friday night in a hospital in Brampton, a town close to Toronto wherein she resided, family sources stated.
Her younger brother Anwar Ali’s spouse Mona Mathur Ali instructed PTI that she was diagnosed with cancer some days ago however that might not have been the cause for her demise. “There were different health issues,” she stated. Minoo Mumtaz’s father Mumtaz Ali became a dancer in Bombay Talkies in the 1930s-40s. “I was 13-14 and inquisitive about dancing. Though my mom objected, my father endorsed me to take to dancing. Let her work, he stated. That’s how I got here into the industry,” she stated in an interview with Farruk Viqar, available on YouTube. Born Malikunnisa Ali, she is stated to have got her screenname from the outstanding Meena Kumari.
Her felicity with dance movements and fluency in emoting with eyes noticed her flourish in the movie world. She matched steps with the incomparable Helen in ‘Aji chale aao’ (movie: Halaku, 1956) and with Kumkum (‘Reshmi salwar kurta jaali ka’ (movie: Naya Daur, 1957)’. The uncommon Asha-Geeta Dutt duet, ‘Jaanu jaanu re’ was filmed on Madhubala and her in ‘Insaan Jaag Utha’ (1959). One of the finest, though much less remembered, numbers picturized on her changed into in Dara Singh’s movie, ‘Faulad’ (1962).
The tune required her to feign love and ultimately betray the hero and Minoo was best in conveying the ones feelings in what’s one in all Asha Bhonsle’s wholly eye-catching renditions, ‘Jaane jaana yun na dekho.’ Apart from ‘CID’ and ‘Sahib, Bibi aur Ghulam’, Minoo additionally acted in Guru Dutt’s ‘Kaagaz Ke Phool’ (1959) and ‘Chaudhvin Ka Chand’ (1960) and had a pivotal negative character in Devendra Goel’s superhit, ‘Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan’ (1959). She additionally displayed impeccable comedian timing in her roles with Johnny Walker and Om Prakash. Minoo Mumtaz stopped working after her marriage to director SA Akbar (‘Chhote Nawab’ and ‘Johar Mehmood in Hong Kong’) in the Sixties. She later migrated to Canada.
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