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Ishrat Jehan Imamuddin aka Indurani was born in a middle class family of Delhi, on the 22nd of June, 1922. Her mother Munawar Jehan was one of the first female students of the then newly opened Hakim Ajmal Khan school of Jamia Millia University of Delhi. After graduating from the school as a Lady Doctor and Hakim, she had worked in the princely states of Zanzira and Tonk. Her father Shaikh Imamuddin was the owner of a fleet of 17 horse carriages (Victorias and tongas) and one of his contracts was for transporting female students to the Mission Girls Urdu School in Delhi. Therefore, Ishrat and her sisters Afroz and Roshan got a good education in that school. They were 7 children in all. Ishrat was the third child. Naseem Bano (whose real name was also Roshan)–the actress and the mother of Saira Bano–also studied in the same school for a short period.
When
Ishrat was about 12-13 years old and was studying in Eighth Standard,
her father brought her and her elder sister Roshan Jehan to Poona to
find work in films. Talkie films had just started and film makers were
on the look out for good looking boys and girls who could speak
Urdu/Hindi fluently. The sisters got work in Dadasaheb Torne’s Saraswati
Cinetone. They both were renamed as Indurani (Ishrat Jehan) and
Sarojini (Roshan Jehan). In those days, most Muslim artistes took Hindu
names for obvious reasons. While in Poona, the sisters were getting Rs
300/- per month as salary. Their father took three months’ advance
payments and left for Delhi, leaving the sisters in the care of their
Nani (maternal grandmother). In Poona, they became quite friendly with a
co-actor Vasantrao Pehelwan (who later did villain’s roles in Master
Bhagwan’s stunt films). They called him ‘uncle’ ji.
Soon
the word spread around that two sisters were available for work. The
sisters did not know much of anything in Bombay and could not go
anywhere. So producers came to them. First was V. Shantaram who offered
Indurani a job at Rs.300 per month. She insisted that her sister and
“Uncleji” should also get work. Shantaram agreed for Sarojini but
refused Vasantrao Pehelwan, so the job did not materialize. “Uncleji”
went away soon after that. One day Sohrab Modi and Keki Modi came
looking for them. Sohrab Modi offered them contracts for Rs. 450 per
month and invited them to the studio. When they reached Minerva
Movietone, they saw Leela Chitnis smoking with a long holder. Young
Indurani was impressed and also tried to copy her; but Sohrab Modi, who
treated her like his daughter, told her that it did not suit her and she
gave up.
At
the age of 17 in 1939 Indurani married Ramniklal Shah, secretly. Her
elder sister Sarojini also married Nanubhai Vakil, the lead director of
Mohan Pictures (Azra is their daughter). Indurani had six children. One
of them died at birth. The shock was too much for her and after 1943,
her career started slowing down. By 1949, her last film was released.
Salim
ji has many stories, anecdotes and interesting tidbits from the Bombay
film world of those days. Indurani’s brother Naseem Siddiqui was a
producer and a director of films made by Mohan Pictures. His friend
Hasan Sehrai was a dialogue writer and editor of a film magazine called
“Kahkashan”. Lyricist Shevan Rizvi was also his friend. Naseem Siddiqi’s
younger sister Shirin got married to Hasan Sehrai. Indurani’s sister
Sarojini (Roshan Jehan) worked in films at the same time. She worked in
about 17 films according to the Hindi Film Geet Kosh (HFGK) and sang a
few songs. Sarojini and Indurani worked together in three films, namely Jadui Kangan (1940), Hatimtai Ki Beti (1940) and Tajmahal (1941).
Indurani
worked with several well known heroes of her times, like Prem Adeeb,
Jayant, Jeevan, Yaqub, Mubarak, Sushil Kumar, Yusuf Efendi, Nazir, Navin
Yagnik, Yashwant Dave etc. She had good directors for her films, like
G.R. Sethi, Ram Daryani, Dwarka Khosla, J.P. Advani, K. Amarnath, Mohan
Sinha, and Nanubhai Vakil. She had training in classical music while she
worked in Daryani productions and with this background, she sang
two songs each in three films. She sang four songs under the baton of
Anil Biswas and two under Madholal Master.
Singer-actress
Nirmala Devi was Indurani’s friend and her husband (actor Govinda’s
father) Arun Ahuja was her “Rakhi Brother”. When the Ahuja family lost
everything, it was Indurani who paid for their monthly expenses for two
months. Later the Ahujas sold their house in Juhu and shifted to Virar,
but they paid back all the money to Indurani. Exactly opposite was was
the case of director-producer-actor Nazir and his wife, actress
Swarnalata (a Siyal Jat Sikh from Rawalpindi). They visited Indurani in
their Rolls Royce, borrowed some money from her and then, within few
days, quietly migrated to Pakistan, without repaying the amount.
| Year | Film | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1929 | Veer Pujan | Silent film |
| 1929 | Tit For Tat | Silent film |
| 1929 | Sinhaldweep Ki Sundari | Silent film |
| 1929 | Kumud Kumari | Silent film |
| 1929 | Dehna Daan | Silent film |
| 1930 | Vifreli Waghan | Silent film |
| 1930 | Vanraj | Silent film |
| 1930 | Sorathi Baharvatiyo | Silent film |
| 1930 | Sheikh Chilli | Silent film |
| 1930 | Rasili Radha | Silent film |
| 1930 | Ranakdevi | Silent film |
| 1930 | Madhbhar Mohini | Silent film |
| 1930 | Desh Deepak | Silent film |
| 1931 | Noor-E-Alam | Silent film |
| 1931 | Mojili Mashuq | Silent film |
| 1931 | Hoor-E-Roshan | Silent film |
| 1931 | Baghdad Nu Bulbul | Silent film |
| 1931 | Azadi Nu Jung | Silent film |
| 1931 | Albeli Mumbai | Silent film |
| 1932 | Nakhreli Nar | Silent film |
| 1932 | Baghdad Ka Badmash | Silent film |
| 1932 | Narsinh Mehta | First Gujarati talkie |
| 1932 | Bulbule Baghdad | Hindi |
| 1933 | Bulbule Punjab | Hindi |
| 1934 | Rashk-e-Laila | Hindi, Writer |
| 1934 | Nand Ke Lala | Hindi |
| 1935 | Birbal Ki Beti | Hindi |
| 1936 | Mr. and Mrs. Bombay | Hindi |
| 1937 | Fakhre Islam | Hindi |
| 1938 | Banke Sanvaria | Hindi |
| 1941 | Jadui Bandhan | Hindi |
| 1941 | Taj Mahal | Hindi |
| 1943 | Naya Zamana | Hindi |
| 1946 | Baghdad Ka Chor | Hindi |
| 1947 | Chithrabahavali | Tamil |
| 1947 | Vedhalapuram | Tamil |
| 1954 | Gul Bahar | Hindi |
| 1955 | Hatimtai Ki Beti | Hindi, Producer |
| 1956 | Lalkaar | Hindi |
| 1957 | Bansari Bala | Hindi |
| 1958 | Pehla Pehla Pyar | Hindi |
| 1959 | Flying Rani | Hindi |
| 1964 | Idd Ka Chand | Hindi |
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Ishrat Jehan Imamuddin aka Indurani was born in a middle class family of Delhi, on the 22nd of June, 1922. Her mother Munawar Jehan was one of the first female students of the then newly opened Hakim Ajmal Khan school of Jamia Millia University of Delhi. After graduating from the school as a Lady Doctor and Hakim, she had worked in the princely states of Zanzira and Tonk. Her father Shaikh Imamuddin was the owner of a fleet of 17 horse carriages (Victorias and tongas) and one of his contracts was for transporting female students to the Mission Girls Urdu School in Delhi. Therefore, Ishrat and her sisters Afroz and Roshan got a good education in that school. They were 7 children in all. Ishrat was the third child. Naseem Bano (whose real name was also Roshan)–the actress and the mother of Saira Bano–also studied in the same school for a short period.
Ishrat’s sister Roshan was adventurous and she
corresponded with a film studio and sent her photo. They wrote back
offering her a job of Rs.300 per month. When their father came to know
this, he first admonished and bashed her. At that time, due to his
gambling habit, he was in debts and financial difficulties, so he
thought that his daughters could earn money for him as film stars.
When
Ishrat was about 12-13 years old and was studying in Eighth Standard,
her father brought her and her elder sister Roshan Jehan to Poona to
find work in films. Talkie films had just started and film makers were
on the look out for good looking boys and girls who could speak
Urdu/Hindi fluently. The sisters got work in Dadasaheb Torne’s Saraswati
Cinetone. They both were renamed as Indurani (Ishrat Jehan) and
Sarojini (Roshan Jehan). In those days, most Muslim artistes took Hindu
names for obvious reasons. While in Poona, the sisters were getting Rs
300/- per month as salary. Their father took three months’ advance
payments and left for Delhi, leaving the sisters in the care of their
Nani (maternal grandmother). In Poona, they became quite friendly with a
co-actor Vasantrao Pehelwan (who later did villain’s roles in Master
Bhagwan’s stunt films). They called him ‘uncle’ ji.
In Poona, Indurani first worked in a Marathi film called Savitri in
a minor uncredited role of a younger sister. Unfortunately the Marathi
film of Dadasaheb Torne flopped and his studio closed down. The sisters
decided to shift to Bombay to seek work prospects. Vasantrao Pehelwan
got them a flat on rent in Dadar’s Hindu Colony in Bombay.
While in Bombay, Indurani got work in films of Daryani Productions like Fida E Watan (1936), Pratima (1936), Bulldog (1937) and Insaaf (1937). While doing films Pratima and Insaaf,
she fell in love with her handsome co-star Prem Adeeb. However, when it
became clear that he could not muster enough courage to marry her in
opposition to his family (he was a Hindu Kashmiri Pandit and she was a
Muslim), she refused to continue relations. She was a very strong woman
indeed.
Soon
the word spread around that two sisters were available for work. The
sisters did not know much of anything in Bombay and could not go
anywhere. So producers came to them. First was V. Shantaram who offered
Indurani a job at Rs.300 per month. She insisted that her sister and
“Uncleji” should also get work. Shantaram agreed for Sarojini but
refused Vasantrao Pehelwan, so the job did not materialize. “Uncleji”
went away soon after that. One day Sohrab Modi and Keki Modi came
looking for them. Sohrab Modi offered them contracts for Rs. 450 per
month and invited them to the studio. When they reached Minerva
Movietone, they saw Leela Chitnis smoking with a long holder. Young
Indurani was impressed and also tried to copy her; but Sohrab Modi, who
treated her like his daughter, told her that it did not suit her and she
gave up.
One day Ramniklal Shah of Mohan Pictures and his friend
Nanabhai Bhatt (father of Mahesh and Mukesh Bhatt) came calling. By that
time Nanabhai Bhatt had already got involved with his star Shirin Bano.
Ramniklal offered them a salary of Rs. 500 per month. This was more
than Minerva, so the offer was accepted but in the process Indurani lost
her chance to work in a prestigious company like Minerva. Their old
schoolmate Naseem Bano was at Minerva and came to prominence with the
film Pukar (1939)
made by Minerva. The sisters did not have anyone to advise them, so
they lost their chances at Prabhat and Minerva. Thus from 1938 onwards,
Ramniklal Shah took them under his wings.
At
the age of 17 in 1939 Indurani married Ramniklal Shah, secretly. Her
elder sister Sarojini also married Nanubhai Vakil, the lead director of
Mohan Pictures (Azra is their daughter). Indurani had six children. One
of them died at birth. The shock was too much for her and after 1943,
her career started slowing down. By 1949, her last film was released.
In my opinion, Indurani was a “one of a kind” woman. In
those days and for her age, she showed exemplary planning, foresight and
had the right priorities for her future. Being from an educated family,
she knew and understood the importance of education. She ensured that
all her children got the best possible education to enable them to lead
comfortable lives. Her children went to the prestigious missionary
school in Santa Cruz, The Sacred Boys’ High School. Saira Bano’s brother
Sultan, Shashadhar Mukherjee’s sons Rono, Joy, Debu and Shomu
Mukherjee, as well as Milan Roy Choudhary (Geeta Dutt’s younger brother)
also studied in the same school. All her children settled successfully
in the United States.
She understood the three basics of life: food, shelter and
clothing. She did work in double shifts and saved enough money to build
her own bungalow in Santa Cruz (a western suburb of Bombay) in 1940–at
the age of about 18 years! In a front page story, The Times of India called her the youngest house owner in Bombay in those days. The house was designed by the famous architect Noorani.
She also saved enough to spend her twilight years happily.
She spent her last 35 years in the US, enjoying life with her entire
family. This, when we have hundreds of stories of artistes who died in
penury and neglect!
Salim
ji has many stories, anecdotes and interesting tidbits from the Bombay
film world of those days. Indurani’s brother Naseem Siddiqui was a
producer and a director of films made by Mohan Pictures. His friend
Hasan Sehrai was a dialogue writer and editor of a film magazine called
“Kahkashan”. Lyricist Shevan Rizvi was also his friend. Naseem Siddiqi’s
younger sister Shirin got married to Hasan Sehrai. Indurani’s sister
Sarojini (Roshan Jehan) worked in films at the same time. She worked in
about 17 films according to the Hindi Film Geet Kosh (HFGK) and sang a
few songs. Sarojini and Indurani worked together in three films, namely Jadui Kangan (1940), Hatimtai Ki Beti (1940) and Tajmahal (1941).
Indurani acted in 21 (including 1 Marathi) films according
to HFGK and as researched by both Salim ji and Harish ji. Her
Filmography is given at the end; please note that she was credited
variously as Indu, Indurani and also as Indubala. There was another
Indubala also, but she worked in films made in Calcutta and by Calcutta
producers. Those films are excluded from this list, based on Salim ji’s
information.
Indurani
worked with several well known heroes of her times, like Prem Adeeb,
Jayant, Jeevan, Yaqub, Mubarak, Sushil Kumar, Yusuf Efendi, Nazir, Navin
Yagnik, Yashwant Dave etc. She had good directors for her films, like
G.R. Sethi, Ram Daryani, Dwarka Khosla, J.P. Advani, K. Amarnath, Mohan
Sinha, and Nanubhai Vakil. She had training in classical music while she
worked in Daryani productions and with this background, she sang
two songs each in three films. She sang four songs under the baton of
Anil Biswas and two under Madholal Master.
Both Ramniklal Shah and Indurani were very generous and
helpful in nature. When child artist Meena Kumari was in financial
distress and her father approached Ramnikbhai, without thinking he gave
Rs. 5000 and never asked for its return. Meena Kumari never forgot this
kind gesture and always respected Ramnikbhai.
Singer-actress
Nirmala Devi was Indurani’s friend and her husband (actor Govinda’s
father) Arun Ahuja was her “Rakhi Brother”. When the Ahuja family lost
everything, it was Indurani who paid for their monthly expenses for two
months. Later the Ahujas sold their house in Juhu and shifted to Virar,
but they paid back all the money to Indurani. Exactly opposite was was
the case of director-producer-actor Nazir and his wife, actress
Swarnalata (a Siyal Jat Sikh from Rawalpindi). They visited Indurani in
their Rolls Royce, borrowed some money from her and then, within few
days, quietly migrated to Pakistan, without repaying the amount.
In the early 1960s, Salim ji and other siblings one by one
left for America for studies, and then all settled in the US.
Ramnikbhai Shah died in 1973. Later Indurani also shifted to the US and
stayed with her sons by turns. She spent her time happily with twelve
grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Indurani died in the US on
February 18, 2012 at the ripe age of 90 years, after a fruitful and
contented life. Her grave is in the Ventura County, California town of
Camarillo.
Her Death Anniversary falls on the 18th of February and we
present our tribute to Indurani through this short biography. I
especially thank Harish Raghuwanshi ji for his active help, posters and
photographs of Indurani, and Salim Shah ji for his help in preparing
this biography of Indurani ji, through his interview and emails.
Indurani’s Filmography
- Savitri (1936) (A Marathi film made by Saraswati Cinetone of Dadasaheb Torne, Poona)
- Fida E Watan (1936)
- Pratima (1936) (with 2 songs)
- Bulldog (1937) (with 2 songs)
- Insaaf (1937)
- Meri Bhool (1937)
- Mr. X (1938)
- Veerbala (1938)
- Sunehra Baal (1938)
- Bhedi Kumar (1939)
- Chashmawali (1939)
- Midnight Mail (1939)
- Swastik (1939)
- Hatimtai Ki Beti (1940)
- Jadui Kangan (1940)
- Thief of Tatar (1940)
- Alladin Laila (1941)
- Bulbul E Baghdad (1941)
- Tajmahal (1941) (with 2 songs)
- Zevar (1942)
- Alladin Ki Beti (1949)
My sincere thanks to:
Shri Salim ji Shah, USA
Shri Harish Raghuvanshi ji, Surat
Shri Shishir Krishna Sharma ji, Mumbai
Hindi Film Geet Kosh
Some Filmindia magazine scans courtesy of the Internet Archive and MOMA
Shri Salim ji Shah, USA
Shri Harish Raghuvanshi ji, Surat
Shri Shishir Krishna Sharma ji, Mumbai
Hindi Film Geet Kosh
Some Filmindia magazine scans courtesy of the Internet Archive and MOMA