Ishrat Sultana

Ishrat Sultana was born in Delhi in 1906. She was popularly known as Bibbo. She started her acting career in 1933. Ishrat worked in Hindi and Urdu cinema. She has done acting for many eminent directors like A.P Kapoor and M. D Bhavnani before moving to Pakistan, following the Partition in 1947.

Bibbo was in the list of leading ladies during 1930-1940. The list had some prominent names like Devika Rani In the annals of history of the Indian movie indus >> Read More... , Mehtab, Shanta Apte Shanta Apte was an Indian playback singer and acto >> Read More... , Sulochana, Durga Khote Durga Khote is a legendary actress of Indian cinem >> Read More... , Leela Desai Leela Desai (aka Lila Desai) was an actress who wo >> Read More... and Naseem Banu Naseem Banu, also known as the beauty queen of Ind >> Read More... . She made her debut with Rangila Rajput (1933) which was later followed by Mayajaal (1933). Bibbo worked with great actors like Master Nissar Master Nissar [Nissar Ali Mohammed Ali] was born o >> Read More... , Kumar and Surendra and she gave some tremendously hit pairing with them in films like Manmohan (1936), Jagirdar (1937), Gramophone Singer (1938) and Ladies Only (1939).

Bibbo even became the first female music composer of India and she composed music for Adal-e-Jahangir in 1934 and Qazzak Ki Lakdi in 1937. Bibbo worked in over 30 movies before leaving India. Her acting was praised by a journalist, Pitambar Jha in 1934 in his article in a Hindi Magazine called as Chitrapat.

After shifting to Pakistan following the partition, Bibbo did approximately 12 films between the years (1950-1966). Her first film in Pakistan was Shammi, directed by Munshi Dil Munshi Dil is a renowned writer, lyricist, and dir >> Read More... and the music was given by Master Inayat Hussain and actors in the movie were Shammi, Santosh and Ajmal. Bibbo won Nigar Awards in 1958 for the film Zahr-e Ishq, produced by Sultan Jilani and Khursheed Anwar, featuring Habib, Yasmin, Neelo and Musarrat Nazir in the movie made under the banner of Select Pictures.

Bibbo did many films like Jhoomar (1959), Dopatta (1952), Ghoonghat (1952), Fanoos (1963) and Ghalib. Her last film is considered as Armaan in (1966). This movie was directed by Pervez Malik The 1960s marked the start of Pakistan cinema’s go >> Read More... and music was given by Sohail Rana. She got married to Khalil Sardar in the year 1930, the director of Adal-e-Jahangir. The last days of her life were considered miserable and brutal and she died of Tuberculosis on 25 May1972 in Karachi.