Shehri Babu

{{Short description|1953 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Shehri Baboo

| image =

| caption =

| director = Nazir Ahmed Khan

| producer = Nazir Ahmed Khan

| writer = Baba Alam Siaposh

| starring = Swaran Lata
Santosh Kumar
M. Ismael
Nazar
Asha Posley
Allauddin

| music = Rashid Attre
Safdar Hussain (assistant)

| distributor =

| released = {{Film date|1953|06|13|df=y}}

| runtime =

| country = Pakistan

| language = Punjabi

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Shehri Babu is a 1953 Pakistani Punjabi-language film directed by Nazir Ahmed Khan.

Cast

  • Swaran Lata{{cite web|url=http://www.mpaop.org/mpaop/pak-film-database/chronological-of-films/53-2/shehri-babu/ |url-status=dead|title=Shehri Babu (1953 film)|website=Motion Pictures Archive of Pakistan (Mpaop) website|archive-date=29 August 2017|access-date=31 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829072554/http://www.mpaop.org/mpaop/pak-film-database/chronological-of-films/53-2/shehri-babu/}}{{cite web|url=http://cineplot.com/swaranlata-1924-2008/|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 October 2011|website=Cineplot.com website |title=Profile of Swaran Lata (1924 - 2008)|access-date=31 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111011042144/http://cineplot.com/swaranlata-1924-2008/}}
  • Santosh Kumar
  • Asha Posley
  • Allauddin{{cite web|url=https://www.youlinmagazine.com/article/good-to-be-bad-the-villains-of-pakistani-cinema/MjAyNg== |title=Good to be Bad: The Villains of Pakistani Cinema |author=Muhammad Suhayb |date=22 June 2021|access-date=1 August 2023|website=Youlin Magazine}}
  • Inayat Hussain Bhatti{{cite web|url=http://www.upperstall.com/films/1953/shehri-babu |title=Shehri Babu |website=Upperstall.com website|url-status=dead |archive-date=9 September 2011|access-date=31 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110909140855/http://www.upperstall.com/films/1953/shehri-babu}}
  • Nazar

Soundtracks

Music for the film was rendered by Rashid Attre and song lyrics are by Tufail Hoshiarpuri, Hazin Qadri and Waris Ludhianvi. Playback singers are Zubaida Khanum, Munawar Sultana and Inayat Hussain Bhatti.

For music composer Rashid Attre, Shehri Babu was a breakthrough film and also his first big musical hit in the newly-independent Pakistan.{{cite web|url=http://pakfilms.net/movies/details.php?pid=40 |url-status=dead|title=Shehri Babu (1953 film)|website=Pakistan Film Magazine website|archive-date=15 June 2017|access-date=1 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170615153545/http://pakfilms.net/movies/details.php?pid=40}}

class= "wikitable"
Song title || Sung by ||Lyrics by || Music by || Film notes
Gallan Sun Ke Mahi De Naal Merian, Dopatta Beimaan Ho Gaya, Ni Chandra Shaitan Ho GayaZubaida KhanumHazin QadriRashid Attre
Mera Naram Kaalja Dol GayaZubaida KhanumWaris LudhianviRashid Attre
Ik Kurri Di Cheez Gawachi, Palkay Chaita Aaway GaInayat Hussain Bhatti and Zubaida KhanumWaris LudhianviRashid Attre
Raatan Merian Bana Ke Rabba Nehrian, Naseeban Waalay Taaray Dubb GaeyZubaida KhanumTufail HoshiarpuriRashid Attre
Bhagan Waleo, Naam Japo Maula NaamInayat Hussain BhattiTufail HoshiarpuriRashid Attre

References

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