• Mehdi Hassan sang his first film song Nazar miltay hi dil ki baat ka charcha na ho jayay.. in Karachi based Urdu film Shikar, but his first released film became Kanwari Beva (which was second film of Ahmad Rushdi).
• Mehdi Hassan sang only 9 songs in his first 5 years of film career from 1956-61.
  7 songs in 1956, single in 1957, not any song in next two years, again single song in 1960, without any song in 1961. Inayat Hussain Bhatti, Saleem Raza and Munir Hussain were dominating male singers in this period.
• 1962 was a lucky year for Mehdi Hassan, when he sang 5 songs in 5 films. Three of them were hit songs, and he was recognized as a film singer. Same year, another two legendry singers Ahmad Rushdi got breakthrough from film Mehtab and Masood Rana was introduced in film Inqalab.
• Mehdi Hassan sang for the first time with Madam Noor Jehan in song Ik deevanay ka is dil ne kaha maan liya...in film Qaidi (1962). He sang 44 duets with her, which is a record for him with any singer.
• Mehdi Hassan had only a single song in 1963 and that was a super hit song: Elahi, aansoo bhari zindgi kisi ko na day..

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» Mehdi Hassan & Madam Noorjehan's duets
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