Today, September 21, is the 89th birth anniversary of Madam Noor Jehan. I am not sure if I will have a chance to write something new for the occasion before the day is over, but for now, I will do what I did in my last few Noor Jehan birthday posts, and (at least) supply links to my previous Noor Jehan birthday posts :) (with some added description, too).
83rd Birthday (2009) – This was the first Noor Jehan birthday post on this blog, although I had already been posting about her for a little while. Here, I included several clips of some wonderful songs.
84th Birthday (2010) – This post contains a bunch of links to other articles and blog posts about Noor Jehan as well as YouTube video channels. Surprisingly, the YouTube channels still exist, but most of the article links don’t take you to those articles anymore. Well, that is what happens on the old Web… But the stuff that you can find through this post is well worth finding.
85th Birthday (2011) – Like the 83rd birthday post – wonderful song clips here!
September 2012 was a tumultuous month for me, so I missed my chance to do a big Noor Jehan birthday post that year. But I did do a nice short belated birthday post for both Noor Jehan and Lata, with a clip of one fine song from each.
87th Birthday (2013) – This is actually another post consisting of links to older Noor Jehan birthday posts. But they are well worth repeating (if I may say so, myself).
88th Birthday (2014) – Here I linked to old posts again, but I also reposted all the parts of a great video interview that I had posted more than five years earlier. The interview, itself, is well worth re-watching every year!
Dances on the Footpath 
Madam was super
I used to think that Noor Jehan was fortunate that she was in two of the best sound tracks of the forties. “Anmol Ghadi” and Mirza Sahiba”. But now I realize that her contributions enhanced the quality of the songs. It is foolish to make top 10 lists because everybody will disagree with the ranking, so I will be a bigger fool and make a top five list of all time Bollywood females. Three of them would be Nur Jehan, Madhubala and Madhuri Dixit. They had several skills besides acting, had a lengthy career and were excellent in at least one skill. Analogy would be baseball where Miguel Cabrera is the best hitter but Mike Trout is the best player because he is also a good fielder and speedy on the bases. Loved the interview on British TV. She was a charismatic guest and answered questions in an honest way. Fantastic singer, nice looking, good actress, Lengthy career.