SRK praise has boosted our career, say Nooran sisters

Aakanksha N Bhardwaj

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Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, July 15

When King Khan tweeted, praised and expressed his excitement on having Jalandhar’s Nooran sisters’ song in his movie, Sultana Nooran and Jyoti Nooran felt completely overwhelmed and flattered.

It is a known fact that the sisters are now a household name, but ask them and they say that Shah Rukh expressing that he specially wanted a song of Nooran sisters was the biggest compliment for them and something they could never forget.

The song ‘Butterfly’ in Shah Rukh Khan’s upcoming movie “When Harry met Sejal” that has been sung by Nooran sisters was launched by Badshah in Ludhiana where the sisters had accompanied him.

Before coming to Punjab, Khan had also tweeted and showed his love for Nooran sisters, “Butter Chicken, Butter Milk and Butter Fly all the way from Punjab. With marvellous Nooran Sisters,” he had tweeted.

And recently in an interview with The Tribune, Khan had said “I really love the voice of these girls. I had heard them in ‘Highway’ and wanted them to sing this special song for the film. I shared this with Imtiaz Ali and he immediately got it done having worked with them earlier. I really like the rawness in their singing. It is different from the modern-day kind of polished singing. They sing in qawwali style, which somehow has a resemblance with legendary singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.”

To this, Sultana, the elder sister, said that they both had grown up watching SRK films. Jyoti Nooran said, “When we recorded the song ‘Butterfly’ in Mumbai, we could not meet Shah Rukh, and after a day or two, he posted on social media how he missed meeting us and it was very sweet on his part to write for us.”

On an upcoming project, the sisters said that they had recently recorded for Vishal and Shekhar for an upcoming Bollywood movie that they said would be a surprise for everyone.

Apart from keeping themselves busy with Punjabi songs and Bollywood, Jyoti and Sultana are also giving their voices to Tamil songs. Jyoti Nooran, who has just given her voice to a Tamilian song, said for a Punjabi, it is quite difficult to speak the words in the song.

“I felt like a child who is speaking first words of her life,” laughed Jyoti.