Supporting actress
Real name | Gulzar Begum |
First film | Mehbooba (Urdu - 1953) |
1953-1987 | |
Life | - 16-12-2002 |
Born at | |
Language | |
Profession | Acting |
Relations | Hassan Tariq (husband) Reena (daughter) |
Nighat Sultana was a popular supporting actress in the 1950s/60s. She was seen in her first film Mehbooba in 1953. She became the first ever heroine in first Pakistani Sindhi film Umar Marvi in 1956. She was first heroine in Urdu movies like Lakhpati (1958), Bombay Wala (1961) and Pyar Na Kar Nadan (1964). Her most famous film was Susral (1962) with a mega hit song by Madam Noorjahan picturised on her..
Nighat Sultana was married to film director Hassan Tariq and according to film sources, she was mother of an actress Reena (who changed her name as Sabuhi). Her real name was Gulzar Begum and she was born in 1932. She died on December 16, 2002.
Her real name is Gulzar Bigum, born in 1935 in Iraq. Her father was Bengali origin working in army and was sent to Iraq during the 1st World War where he got married with an Iraqi Kurd woman. At the age of 14, she returned to Pakistan, Karachi with her father. Nighat also worked in army hospital as Nurse for some time before joining films. She got married with Hassan Tariq. Reena (Saboohi) was her daughter but Nighat always claimed her as sister due to some reasons. She will be remembered for the very impressively character role of an invalid young girl in Riaz Shahid's film Susral (1962). (by Mohammed Ayub Qureshi, Saudi Arabia)
Detailed informations on released films, music, artists, history,
box office reports, videos, images etc..
Pakistan Film Magazine is the first and largest website on Pakistani films, music and artists with detailed informations, videos, images etc. It was launched on May 3, 2000.
Click on the image below and visit the one of the last manual-edited or non-database website from 2012..
More archived pages of Pakistan Film Magazine since 2000..