When Singer Noor Jehan Was Caught With A Cricketer In Bed By Her Husband

"When Shaukat turned up, the two were in bed. In haste, Nazar jumped out of the balcony and fractured his arm on landing, ending not only their romance but also a promising career in cricket."

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“When Shaukat turned up, the two were in bed. In haste, Nazar jumped out of the balcony and fractured his arm on landing, ending not only their romance but also a promising career in cricket.

Nazar Mohammad

Fazal Mahmood was one of the big starry names at the club though he eventually moved to Universal, and Nazar Mohammad—Pakistan’s first Test centurion and father of an equally stodgy opener Mudassar—was another. Nazar senior, it is widely claimed, was involved in a suitably glamorous fling with Nur Jehan, Pakistan’s most acclaimed female voice—with a famously wandering eye—and a successful actress.

Nazar wasn’t a bad singer himself, and was quite the dasher; the affair, it is said, began when he met Nur Jehan while visiting a film set to meet his elder brother Feroz Nizami, a renowned music director.

It ended badly. Shaukat Hussain Rizvi, Nur Jehan’s husband and renowned film director, had her followed one afternoon to where he suspected she was meeting Nazar. When Shaukat turned up, the two were in bed. In haste, Nazar jumped out of the balcony and fractured his arm on landing, ending not only their romance but also a promising career in cricket.

(This is an excerpt from the book ‘The Unquiet Ones : A History of Pakistan Cricket’ by Osman Samiuddin)


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Saquib Salim

Saquib Salim is a well known historian under whose supervision various museums (Red Fort, National Library, IFFI, Jallianwala Bagh etc.) were researched. To his credit Mr. Salim has more than 400 published articles on history, politics, culture and literature in English and Hindi. Before pursuing his research and masters in modern Indian History from JNU, he was an electrical engineering student at AMU. Presently, he works as a freelance/ independent history researcher, writer and works at www.awazthevoice.in