Mubarak Begum

Father Mubarak is from Navalgarh , and his mother is from Jhunjhun . There, in the house of the mother’s parents, the future singer was born. Soon after, the family moved to Ahmedabad , where Father Mubarak went into the fruit trade. In the 1940s, he moved his family to Bombay ^[1] . There she began to learn singing from Riyazuddin Khan, the nephew of singer , and soon after began to sing on the All-India Radio ^[2] .

At the age of 11 she began to receive offers to record vocals for films, but at that time she could not overcome shyness. As a voiceover, she first performed in the film Aiye (1949), performing the solo songs Mohe ane lagi angadayi and Aao chalen sakhi vahan chalen, a duet with Lata Mangeshkar . Then there were seven parties in Daera (1953), which failed at the box office, and an invitation to sing in Shabaab (1954) from , which she declined to find out that she was to be just one of the choir. After rejecting such a proposal in Devdas (1955), gave her the opportunity to solo Woh Na Ayenge Paltkar in this film. Another popular song was Ham Haal-e-Dil Sunaenge from Madhumati ^{[2] [3]} (1957). But her most famous composition is “Mujh ko Apne Gale Lagalo” from the movie Hamrahi (1963), sung with Mohammed Rafi , the opportunity to perform which she received due to the fact that the recognized diva of those times, Lata Mangeshkar, rejected the offer due to excessive employment ^[4] . In the same way, she got the song “Kabhi Tanhaiyon Mein Yoon Hamari Yaad Aayegi” to the film Hamari Yaad Aayegi two years earlier ^[5] . Together with Lata and she also recorded the song “Husn ki barat chali” for the epic “The Great Mogul ”, which, however, was not included in the final version of the picture ^[6] .