Husna

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Husna
Born
Nudrat Jahan

1942
NationalityPakistani
OccupationActress
Years active1958 – 1970s

Husna (born 1942) was a Pakistani actress in the late 1950s to 1970s, who worked in Pakistani cinema. She made her debut in 1958 and mostly appeared in supporting roles in films. She was the recipient of the Nigar Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1972. [1]

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Career

Actress Husna was born in 1942 as Nudrat Jahan in the household of Aftab Ali Khan, a friend of veteran film producer Shaukat Hussain Rizvi, who introduced her into the Pakistani film industry with the professional name 'Husna'. [2] [3] She made her debut as a child actor with his film Jan-e-Bahar (1958). Husna never became a top heroine and mainly played the side-heroine or vamp roles in Urdu and Punjabi films during her almost -30- years long career. Her big breakthrough came with Ajab Khan (1961), starring opposite Sudhir. [3] [2]

Her other appearances include Changez Khan (1958), Nagin (1959), Rani Khan (1960), Dosti (1971), and Sabaq (1972), among other musical films. Ahmad Bashir's Neela Parbat (1969) was one of her memorable films opposite Muhammad Ali, which was an experimental film inspired by Neo-realism. [2] [4] Her leading roles were in Honeymoon (1970) and Khamosh Nigahen (1971) opposite Kamal and Waheed Murad, respectively. [5]

Personal life

She married film actor Darpan, actor Santosh Kumar's younger brother, but that marriage lasted only for two years. Then she remarried within her own extended family and retired from films after acting in more than 150 films. [5]

Major films

Awards

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