Question: What is Meena Rana's connection to Music of Uttarakhand?

Context articles: Music of Uttarakhand
Veera (1994 film)
Prem Singh Rana
Meena Rana
Anmol Ratan
Bachchon Ka Khel
Meena Shorey
Leatherface (1939 film)
Narayan Singh Rana
Hanuman Patal Vijay

Folk music of Uttarakhand refers to the traditional and contemporary songs of Kumaon and Garhwal regions in the foothills of Himalayas.
 This music has its root in the lap of nature and the hilly terrain of the region.
Veera is a Tamil romantic comedy film directed by Suresh Krissna and music by Ilaiyaraaja.
 It stars Rajinikanth, Meena and Roja in the lead roles.
 The movie was dubbed in Telegu with the same title.
 It was a remake of superhit Telugu movie "Allari Mogudu" starring, Mohan Babu, Ramya Krishnan and Meena.
 It was a blockbuster and completed 150-day run at the box office.
Dr. Prem Singh Rana is an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
 Rana is a member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from the Nanakmatta constituency in Udham Singh Nagar district.
Mina Rana (Devanagari: मीना राणा) is a famous Uttarakhandi singer.
 She has sung many Garhwali and Kumaoni music albums.
 She is considered to be one of the best female singers of Uttarakhand and even said to be the "Lata Mangeshkar" of Uttarakhand.
Anmol Rattan (Rare Jewel) is 1950 Bollywood drama film directed by M. Sadiq.
 The film was produced by Jaimani Dewan for his Dewan Productions banner, with music composed by Vinod.
 The film starred Karan Dewan, who was known as a "jubilee star" with most of his films becoming box-office successes.
 He was the younger brother of producer Jaimani Dewan.
 Karan's co-stars were Meena Shorey (credited, as she was in all her films, as just Meena), Nirmala, Gope, Madan Puri and Gulab.
Bachchon Ka Khel is an Indian film produced by Ramnik Productions and directed by Raja Nene.
 It was released at Novelty Bombay on 2 may 1946.
The film's music is by C. Ramchandara, lyrics by Magan, Pt Sharma and art direction by Shripatrao Mane.
 The film starred Meena Kumari, Aga Jan, Nimbalkar, Shanta Patel and Baby Shakuntala.
 With this film at the young age of 14 Baby Meena became the heroine Meena Kumari.
 To quote the film review featured in Filmindia 1946 " The newcomer Meena Kumari is a good addition to the screen.
 she does well as Anuradha and has a promising future."
 The film turned out to be ordinary film but baby meena performed with credit and Kumari talent was noticed at this time by two other important film makers, Kidar Sharma and Homi Wadia.
Meena Kumari, after her career as a child artist, started doing adult roles as heroines in mythologicals and fantasy genres before she made it in mainstream cinema with "Baiju Bawra" (1952).
Meena Shorey (1921–1989) was an Indian cinema and later Pakistani cinema actress, who worked in Hindi/Urdu and Punjabi films.
 Credited in films by her mononym, Meena, her real name was Khurshid Jehan.
 She started her acting career playing a character role, as Ambhi, Raja of Taxila's sister in Sohrab Modi's "Sikandar" (1941).
 Married to her third husband, Roop K. Shorey, by the mid-1940s, she found fame when she acted in her husband's film "Ek Thi Ladki" (1949), opposite actor Motilal.
 The story was written by I. S. Johar, who also starred in the film.
 The "foot-tapping" music composed by Vinod became a "huge hit", with Meena becoming an "icon" for the "new liberated" young women.
 Meena was acclaimed as the "Lara Lappa Girl", from the song of same title in the film.
 She was one of the first women to be recognised in Indian cinema as a "comedienne of calibre".
Leather Face, also called Farzande Watan in Hindi/Urdu, is a 1939 action film produced and directed by Vijay Bhatt for his production company Prakash Pictures.
 Bhatt cast the young Mehjabeen Naaz, then seven years, and christened her Baby Meena; she went on to become the famous actress, Meena Kumari.
 The story writers were Batuk Bhatt and Sampatlal Srivastava.
 The music direction was by Lallubhai Nayak and Shankar Rao Vyas with the lyrics written by Pandit Anuj.
 It starred P. Jairaj, Mehtab, Jal Writer, Shirin, M. Zahur, Lallubhai Nayak, Bholaram and Baby Meena (Meena Kumari).
Narayan Singh Rana is an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
 Rawat was a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council from the Kumaon Division in Uttarakhand.
 He is father and first coach of an Indian shooter Jaspal Rana.
 He was first sports minister of the Uttarakhand from 2000-02.
 He also served Indo-Tibetan Border Police in 1967 and served in Jammu and Kashmir during the 1971 war and was also selected in the Special Protection Group in 1985.
 He also trains young shooter at Jaspal Rana Shooting Academy.
Hanuman Patal Vijay (Hindi: हनुमान पाताल विजय , "Hanuman's Victory Over Hell") is a 1951 Hindi mythological film directed by Homi Wadia for his Basant Pictures banner.
 Meena Kumari starred in this devotional film with S. N. Tripathi playing the role of Hanuman.
 Following her career as a child actress Meena Kumari did heroine roles in mythologies made by Basant Pictures and directed by Homi Wadia.
 She had an extremely successful career for some years playing goddesses before her big commercial break in "Baiju Bawra" (1951).
 S. N. Tripathi besides acting in the film also composed the music.
 His costars were Meena Kumari, Mahipal, Niranjan Sharma, Dalpat and Amarnath.