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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