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Shahnoor Studios (also spelt as Shahnur Studios) is the studio founded by Syed Shaukat Hussain Rizvi and his first wife the famous singer/actress Noor Jehan. The studio is currently run by his four sons Shahenshah Rizvi, Ali Mujtaba Rizvi, Akbar Rizvi, Asghar Rizvi.

During the 1940s in Bombay, Syed Hussain Rizvi was a big director of films and his wife Noor Jehan, the top actress in Bombay. In 1948, after the holocaust of the partition, Noor Jehan and Syed Hussain Rizvi moved to Lahore, Pakistan with their two sons Akbar and Asghar. On the vandalised remains of the formerly Shorey Studios they rebuilt a new studio called Shahnoor Studios from scratch and it was finally completed and opened in 1950. The first film to be made there was Noor Jehan's first film in Pakistan, the Punjabi venture Chanwey (1951). Noor Jehan and Syed Hussain Rizvi directed it together, since Rizvi did not speak Punjabi and the film went on to become a big hit. Its early career (1950 to 1953) brought great success as all of Rizvi's films were shot in this studio. In 1953, with the divorce of Syed Hussain Rizvi and Noor Jehan, Noor Jehan had to write of her share of Shahnoor Studios to S.H. Rizvi and she would no act in this studio again. Shaukat's career after the divorce wasn't as great, because in marrying Noor Jehan, he was a big success because of her. He married again to the actress Yasmin and she soon became Yasmin Shaukat and their marriage produced two more sons. To this day, Shahnoor Studios remains after over 55 years.

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