Salma Agha

Salma Agha ( born April 3, 1962 in Karachi, Pakistan) is a British singer and actress of Indian and Pakistani film of the 1980s and early 1990s.

Biography

Salma Agha comes from a wealthy Pakistani family and lived in London since the age of nine. Together with her sister Sabina Agha she took in 1981 an album of ABBA covers in Urdu / Hindi, which, however, attracted only moderate attention. In contact with the film industry, she arrived at the wedding of Raj Kapoor's son Rishi Neetu Singh in London. She was invited because her mother is a distant cousin of Raj Kapoor, and met the director BR Chopra know who was looking for a young Muslim woman just for a movie.

Salma was hired as an actress for Chopra's commercially successful film Nikaah (1982). After the film composer had heard ABBA album, it was also used as a playback singer in the film. At the Filmfare Awards 1983, she was nominated as Best Actress and the same with three songs from the movie as best playback singer. For the ghazal Dil Ke Armaan, she received a Filmfare Award for Best Playback Singer. Stars of the movie was Raj Babbar. With it, Salma Agha was still often cast as a movie couple.

In 1984, she played with Mithun Chakraborty and Smita Patil in Kasam Paida Karne Wale Ki, and again received for her film Jhoom Jhoom Baba song a Filmfare Award nomination. Her debut in Pakistani film they had in 1985 in Hassan Askari's Hum Aur Tum. She played the lead role on the side of Javed Sheikh, whom she married shortly thereafter. The marriage lasted only briefly. Alternately, she appeared in the Hindi film and in the Pakistani film, which is only because of their British citizenship readily possible. In the 1990s, she retired from the film business and has since released music albums of Ghazals and occurs live.

Salma Agha is married to the squash player and coach Rehmat Khan. You have a daughter.