Cinemaazi remembers Meena Shorey on her death anniversary
3 Sep 1989
Meena Shorey was born Khurshid Jehan. Once when she accompanied her brother-in-law to the mahurat of Sohrab Modi’s Sikandar (1941), Modi, taken in by her beauty, offered her a supporting role in the film and gave her the name Meena. Cinemaazi remembers her on her death anniversary (3 September 1989).
Meena hit the high point of her screen career with Roop K Shorey’s Ek Thi Larki (1949). She went on to become the heartthrob of India. Meena lived the last few years of her life in abject poverty in Pakistan. She had no savings and was reduced to living in a couple of rooms in Lahore’s Mohni Road. There was no one to look after her and she subsisted on a small stipend paid to her by the Pakistan Arts Council and sometimes the Rotary Club.
Meena hit the high point of her screen career with Roop K Shorey’s Ek Thi Larki (1949). She went on to become the heartthrob of India. Meena lived the last few years of her life in abject poverty in Pakistan. She had no savings and was reduced to living in a couple of rooms in Lahore’s Mohni Road. There was no one to look after her and she subsisted on a small stipend paid to her by the Pakistan Arts Council and sometimes the Rotary Club.
