
Nek Pervin (1946) was another successful movie that consolidated Ragini's position as a top star.

Ragini went on to act in several Lahore based productions in Hindi and Punjabi like Sehti Murad (1941), Nishani (1942), Ravi Par (1942), Poonji (1943), Daasi (1944) and Kaise Kahun (1945). The film was a major success and Ragini became a star overnight. Ragini was launched by Roop K Shorey in the Punjabi film Dulla Bhatti (1940) opposite MD Kanwar. Ragini spent the last days of her life alone and neglected in Gulberg. She again got married in Pakistan in 1947 to S Gul who produced and co-starred opposite her in Beqarar. Ragini's married Mohammad Aslam in the early 1940s, the marriage did not last long but she had two children from her first marriage, Saira and Abid. In Lahore filmmaker Roshan Lal Shorey noticed her and convinced Diwan to let him launch Ragini in films. Her mother died when Ragini was very young and her father Seth Diwan Parmanand took her with him to Lahore.

Ragini was born Shamshad Begum in Gujranwala in 1922.
