[1] Working in Bollywood films of the 1940s and also the early 1950s, she moved to Pakistan after the partition of India and retired from her entertainment career.

[1] She worked in films including Mangti (1942), Basant (1942), Badalti Duniya (1943), Kismet (1943), Dharti (1946), Ghar Ki Izzat (1948) and Aahuti (1950).

[2] Mumtaz was born in 1926 in Dinga, in the Gujrat District of the Punjab Province of British India into a Punjabi Muslim family.

[1] Mumtaz's uncle encouraged her to learn singing and dancing when she was visiting Lahore Walli Sahab spotted her and then she went to Calcutta and worked in Sohni Kumharan in 1937.

[6][7][8] The film starring her and Ashok Kumar broke all previous records when it came to box office revenues.