She chose to live life on her terms, away from the glamour of filmdom for the past four decades. Nayyar have sung chorus in my songs in their struggling days," the publicity-shy artiste once told me. So was the energy-unlike that of her star contemporaries Noorjehan, Suraiya and Amirbai Karnataki. History is witness that with every succeeding movie (Gawandi, Zamindar, Poonji, Chal Chal Re Naujawan, Humayun and Mela), the popularity of the songstress soared higher, establishing her as the supreme playback artiste of the 1940s. Her earliest movie songs, like Sawan ke nazare hain, became the craze of the subcontinent and her first films Yamla Jat (Punjabi, 1940) and Khazanchi (Hindi, 1941) were jubilee hits. Such shellac records and regular radio broadcasts from Lahore, Peshawar, Delhi and Lucknow earned the golden-voiced Shamshad Begum great popularity before her entry into films as a playback artiste in 1940.
Tere poojan ko bhagwan bana man mandir alishaan, tuned by her mentor, Master Ghulam Haider. K baar phir kaho zara ki meri saari kaynaat teri ik nazar pe nisaar hai-and the bhajan.
Later interactions with Shamshadji revealed that she sang Subah ki dua at age 5 at her school in Lahore before cutting record discs for the Jien O Phone Record Company at 13.
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