Nayyar Sultana


Nayyar Sultana,, born Tayyaba Bano popularly known as Malka-i- Jazbaat, was an actress from Pakistan. She became one of the foremost screen actresses of Lollywood in the 1950s and 1960s.

Career

She started her movie career with Anwar Kamal Pasha's film Qatil in 1955 as a supporting actress. Her parents were related to actress Shamim Bano, wife of famous Pakistani film producer/director Anwar Kamal Pasha. Later the same year, she landed the second lead in Humayon Mirza’s Intikhab . Thereafter, she started performing lead roles with the screen name Nayyar Sultana. Her notable films include Saat Lakh , Baaji , Mazloom , Saheli .
She briefly left the industry after her marriage with Darpan. She had a comeback in the late 1960s, but most of her films like Ek Musafir Ek Haseena , Meri Bhabhi , Hamjoli and Azmat were not very successful at the box office.
In the 1970s, she moved to performing character roles in S. Sulaiman’s Abhi To Main Jawan Hoon and two films by Hassan Tariq, Mazi Haal Mustaqbil and Seeta Maryam Margaret. These were her last critically acclaimed films before she gradually faded away from the screen. After the death of her husband, Darpan, in 1981, Nayyar managed his recruiting agency till her own death. She appeared in a few movies in the next decade. Nayyar Sultana had worked in over 225 films during her 37-year movie career and received a number of awards. She was known for performing tragic roles; as otherwise known as queen of emotions.

Personal life

Nayyar Sultana was born as Tayyaba Bano in Aligarh in 1937 to a Muslim family. She had her education in Women's College, Aligarh, British India. Her family migrated to Karachi, after the independence of Pakistan in 1947. She married Darpan, her co-star and one of the foremost romantic hero in Pakistani film industry, at the pinnacle of her movie career. His elder brother Santosh Kumar was also an actor, and another brother S. Sulaiman was a film director.

Death

Nayyar Sultana died of cancer on 27 October 1992 at Aga Khan Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan.

Filmography