Perhaps, it was a folly, perhaps a mistake, or perhaps destiny".The principal reason for the opposition from her grandmother and her advisers was that Dev Anand was of a different religion, and the covert one was that Suraiya was the only earning member of the family.
View the profiles of people named Suraiya Star. Suraiya Jamal Sheikh (15 June 1929 – 31 January 2004), popularly known by the mononym Suraiya, was a popular actress and playback singer in India's Hindi language films. And was heartbroken. Suraiya was hugely disappointed when Dev Anand did not turn up and was angry at the lady reporter who had lied to her, and she told her “Tum log dhokhebaaz ho, pyaar ke naam ka khilwaad karte ho, tum logo ka kabhi bhala nahi hoga”. In a career spanning from 1936 to 1963, Suraiya acted in 67 films and sang 338 songs.
But I was terrified of my grandmother. She is known for her work on Anmol Ghadi (1946), Jeet (1949) and Dastan (1950). Suraiya acted with her dream man Dev Anand in seven films, but they could not get married due to her grandmother’s opposition. Suraiya was born in 1929 in Lahore, Punjab, British India as Suraiya Jamal Shaikh. Suraiya was born in 1929 in Lahore, Punjab, British India as Suraiya Jamal Shaikh. But time is the greatest healer. She lived by herself till 2004 and passed away on 31st of January in her Marine Drive residence. ").A limerick ('latka'), “chhayi bahar hai, jiya beqarar hai, aaja mere Dev Anand, Suraiya bemar hai” was often heard in the 1950s, to cajole Dev Anand to woo Suraiya once again.In 1963, Suraiya retired from acting career, supposedly due to two reasons. In retrospect, I don't think anything would have happened if I'd been bold enough. She had a few friends like old-timers After her mother's death in 1987, Suraiya became lonely in the apartment she rented from Aswin ShahIn December 1998, Suraiya then over 68 years old, while in New Delhi to receive the She died at Mumbai's Harkishandas Hospital on 31 January 2004 aged 75, after being admitted there a week previously suffering from various ailments, including For the last thirty years of her life, she had a family friend and guide in her lawyer, Dhimant Thakkar and his family, with whom she had very close family relations. Join Facebook to connect with Suraiya Star and others you may know. Article on Suraiya, "Reigning thrush of the Indian Screen", Filmfare, 11 July 1952 When Suraiya died in 2004, Dev Anand hid from the media in his terrace, because he wanted to be away from the media as he was out of reach alone with the beautiful memories of Suraiya, “The one who could be the only one and there can’t be another, not at least for me”. During the shooting of the film Speaking to journalist Sheila Vesuna, Suraiya said: "Eventually, my grandmother succeeded in separating us. does the appearance of "suraiya star"( Pleiades) linked with the decline of diseases? Suraiya lived like a star … Her father Aziz Jamal Sheikh died that year, and because of her health problems.Suraiya's maternal grandmother, Badshah Begum, who played a major part in her career and even her personal life, later went to Pakistan to live with her brother and his son, and she was left alone with her mother, Mumtaz Begum. The evergreen star of Bollywood, Dev Anand, might have had few affairs with the tinsel town ladies but it was his first love, Suraiya, that made headlines for a long time. The time with her mother were her happy years, when her mother took care of her daily needs and she would occasionally go to her film world friends. Dev Anand wanted her to be bold and marry him in a civil court. "When I refused to marry Dev Anand, he called me a coward. Dev Anand nicknamed Suraiya "Nosey", while to Suraiya, Dev Anand was "Steve", a name chosen from a book Dev Anand had given her.Dev Anand was not the one to be daunted easily. It could have been one of the great love stories, but I don’t know who decides the fate of love, if it was god, my love story and my love for Suraiya would never end the way it did."" She was active from 1936 to 1963. That is how her rise to fame between 1947-50 was indeed meteoric. In a career spanning from 1936 to 1963, Suraiya acted in 67 films and sang 338 songs. Their love-affair continued for four years from 1948 to 1951. Dev Anand and Suraiya love story was one of the most passionate love sagas of its time and an unfortunate one too. Naqshab even brought a copy of the Koran to make her swear that she would not marry Dev Anand (February 1987, 'Star and Style' interview of both Dev Anand and Suraiya by Sheila Vesuna). 10 timeless classics by the singing star Suraiya. The journalist revealed that Suraiya's love for Dev Anand was equally intense in 1996, when she was cajoled to come to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award, saying that Dev Anand would be attending the show, but Dev Anand sought pardon to attend, confessing that he was not ready to face his lady love. I cried from a distance. Thereafter, she largely stayed away from the limelight except from a few stray appearances here and there. "Suraiya's songs, as a tribute to her, are played every year on her birth anniversary, 15 June and her death anniversary on 31 January by Radio Sri Lanka (formerly Radio Ceylon). She died on January 31, 2004 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Maybe I was one. He would always end his memoirs of Suraiya with the line, "it had all the elements of a great love story, but it was destined to end in a tragedy which would be a scar that could never be wiped out from my heart. Check out the Indian movies with the highest ratings from IMDb users, as well as the movies that are trending in real time.Looking for something to watch? ("You are deceiptful, you play with people's emotions, you will never prosper doing this. Suraiya never married even though she received a lot of proposals.