Salma Agha
Salma Agha (born April 3, 1962 in Karachi , Pakistan ) is a British singer and actress of the Indian and Pakistani films of the 1980s and early 1990s.
biography
Salma Agha comes from a wealthy Pakistani family and has lived in London since she was nine . Together with her sister Sabina Agha, she recorded an album with ABBA covers in Urdu / Hindi in 1981 , which, however, attracted only moderate attention. She came into contact with the film industry at the wedding reception of Raj Kapoor's son Rishi with Neetu Singh in London. She was invited because her mother is a distant cousin of Raj Kapoor, and there she met the director BR Chopra , who was looking for a young Muslim woman for a film.
Salma was hired to act in Chopra's commercially successful film Nikaah (1982). After the film composer had heard her ABBA album, she was also used as a playback singer in the film. At the Filmfare Awards 1983 she was nominated for Best Actress and with three songs from this film for Best Playback Singer . For the Ghazal Dil Ke Armaan she received a Filmfare Award for best playback singer . The main actor in the film was Raj Babbar . Salma Agha was often cast as a film couple with him.
In 1984 she played with Mithun Chakraborty and Smita Patil in Kasam Paida Karne Wale Ki , and received another Filmfare Award nomination for her film song Jhoom Jhoom Baba . She made her Pakistani film debut in 1985 in Hassan Askari's Hum Aur Tum . She played the main role alongside Javed Sheikh , whom she married a little later. However, the marriage was short-lived. She alternately appeared in Hindi films and in Pakistani films, which was only possible without further ado because of her British citizenship. She withdrew from the film business in the 1990s and has since released music albums with Ghazals and performed live.
Salma Agha is married to the squash player and trainer Rehmat Khan . They have a daughter together.
Web links
- Salma Agha in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- biography
- Salma Agha in the Pakistani film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dil Ke Armaan on youtube.com ( Memento from March 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Agha, Salma |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British singer and actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karachi , Pakistan |