LISTENING TO NOOR JEHAN
PKR: 5,000/- 3,500/-
Author: INAAM NADEEM
Binding: hardback
Year: 2026
Categories: BIOGRAPHY FILM STUDIES COFFEE TABLE BOOKS
Publisher: BOOK CORNER
On Sale: 21 September 2026
A hundred years after her birth, Noor Jehan’s voice still belongs to the present.
From the child performer once known as Baby Noor Jehan to the luminous screen star of the 1940s, from the defining female voice of Pakistani cinema to the legendary Malika-e-Tarannum, Noor Jehan lived several artistic lives within one extraordinary career.
*Listening to Noor Jehan* is more than the story of a celebrated singer. It explores the making of an artist who transformed expression into the very essence of playback singing, giving every word, pause, and phrase an emotional life of its own. It follows her through cinema and song, Partition and migration, national crisis and changing musical eras, while also looking beyond the legend to the woman behind the voice, her discipline, resilience, relationships, and lifelong devotion to music.
Richly illustrated with photographs and archival material, this centenary portrait brings together cultural history, musical reflection, and personal memory to reconsider an artist whose influence has outlived both her time and the world that created her.
Noor Jehan belongs to history.
Her voice does not.
-ABOUT THE AUTHOR-
INAAM NADEEM
is a writer, poet, translator, and professor of Urdu literature. A lifelong listener and admirer of Noor Jehan, he has written extensively on literature, music, and South Asian culture. In Listening to Noor Jehan, he brings together cultural history, archival material, musical reflection, and personal memory to celebrate a voice that has accompanied him throughout his life.
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