with lyrics by Qamar Jalalabadi, and music by Iqbal Qureshi (from Yeh Dil Kisko Doon, 1963) "Yeh moonh aur masoor ki daal", with Sharda (from Around the World (1967) Personal life Mubarak Begum was born into a Muslim family at [Jhunjhunu] a district town in Rajasthan. She was married to Mr. Shaikh, a man from her own community, and she was the mother of two children, a son and a daughter. Her husband and daughter are both no longer living; in her later years, she lived with her son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter. Although she was a well-known singer, Begum was not able to capitalize on her talents. She did not have the savvy "networking" skills that are so important in careers connected to the entertainment industry, and her career remained stilted as a result. While a competent singer, she was not as skilled in business matters. She was more interested in the music than the money, and her day-to-day expenses and generosity did not allow her to save much money. In a 2016 interview, given before she died, when asked, she said that the Pakistani ghazal singer Ghulam Ali was her favorite singer. Begum's daughter, who had been suffering from Parkinson's disease, died in October 2015, after which Begum's own health took a serious downturn. In May 2016, the press reported that Begum was in hospital and that her family were unable to pay her medical bills. She lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Behram Bagh, in the Mumbai suburb of Jogeshwari, with her family, consisting of a son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter. Her sole income was a pension which she received from her late husband's employer. This pension was reported by Indian news channel NDTV to be Rs.800 ($12) per month and by Indian newspaper DNA to be Rs.3000/- ($45) per month; both figures are extremely paltry by Indian standards, and utterly inadequate for a person's sustenance. Begum was dependent on her son, Hussain Shaikh, who earned an uncertain income by freelancing as a chauffeur, and Begum was cared for by her daughter-in-law. Begum's daughter-in-law, Zarina Hussain Shaikh, told the press that the actor Salman Khan was virtually the only person from the Hindi film industry who was helping the family financially, on a sustained, long-term basis. He had been paying the full costs of all medicine required by the elderly Begum. The singer Lata Mangeshkar consoled Begum after the