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- Indian Express
Dawood Ibrahim's brother Noora secretly wrote Bollywood songs; penned lyrics of tracks featuring Rishi Kapoor and Salman Khan
The notorious underworld don Dawood Ibrahim has long fascinated the Hindi film industry. He inspired several movies, even after he left India and went abroad. It was after his departure that he attempted to make inroads into the film business himself, via his brothers and his aide, Chhota Shakeel. However, one of his brothers, Noor Ul Haq Kaskar, was an aspiring lyricist. In fact, he secretly wrote several Bollywood, besides the ones that actually featured his name in the credits. Fondly known as Noora, he was said to have been killed in 2009, after it was initially reported that he died of a heart attack.
Among the songs written by Noora were 'Choom Loon Honth Tere Dil Ki Yahi Khwahish Hai,' performed by Kumar Sanu and Alka Yagnik in the Rishi Kapoor-starrer Shreemaan Aashique, and the song 'Tumse Jo Dekhte Hi,' performed by SP Balasubrahmanyam and Lata Mangeshkar, for the film Patthar Ke Phool, starring Salman Khan and Raveena Tandon.
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'Noora was a shayarmizaaj aadmi,' said journalist S Hussain Zaidi in a video on his YouTube channel, in which he interviewed (on video) a close associate of Dawood's. The insider said, 'For Dawood, it was family first. If he ever had any differences with Iqbal or Noora, he wouldn't let anybody know of it. The 'tapori' type songs in films, he'd write those. He could do anything for his brothers. Everybody else came second.'
Noor Kaskar also has an IMDb page, in which he is credited as a lyricist on the film Mehboob Mere Mehboob, which was released in 1992 and featured Mohnish Behl. The Indian Express reported in 2009 that Noora had died, seemingly of a heart attack, at the age of 51 in Karachi. But two weeks later, it was reported that the real cause of his death was murder. Noora was reportedly kidnapped, shot, and discarded outside Dawood's house in Karachi. Kidnappers were said to have demanded $50 million as ransom. According to the Indian Express report, 'Noora has eight cases of extortion and kidnapping against him besides being named in the murder of a Customs officer Rajinder Singh.'
Weeks before his death, Noora was attempting to follow in the footsteps of several of Dawood's associates and return to India. He had even contacted his lawyer, asking if he had any pending cases. 'He was longing to return to India,' his lawyer Shyam Keswani told the Indian Express in 2009. The same report said that Noora left India for the Middle East in 1989, and assisted his brother in several criminal operations. An neighbour of his from Mohammed Ali Road remembered him as an amusing character, recalling that on his wedding night, 'Noora took his wife to the terrace and was seen teaching her to fire using an imported revolver.'
