How many Mushtri Bai do you know?

Mushtari Bai of Agra along with her sister Wahidan Bai were fantastic vocalists associated with Khayal traditions, active in the early years of the 20th century. The latter also did some film. Sha is a resident of Fatehabad town, forty kilometres from Agra, was not only famous singer, her elder sister Wahidan Bai was a singer as well as a well-known Hindi film actress and playback singer. Waheedan's daughter Nawab Bano alias Nimmi of Mushtri's sister earned more fame than her mother. The connoisseurs of old Hindi films would know that Nimmi was a very famous actress from the 1950s to 1960s. Mushtari Bai had a younger sister Sitara Begum. Once when her elder sister Wahidan came to Agra from Bombay, she took Sitara with her and went to Bombay. She also wanted to take Mushtari to Bombay, but for some reason, Mushtari Bai did not go to Bombay, Sitara Begum went. In Bombay, Sitara Begum was introduced by Wahidan Bai to some film directors. There Sitara got a new name, Jyoti. To whom Mushtari Bai was married, how many children were born or not, when, where and how she died, all this information could not be obtained even after doing a lot of research.

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