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Noor Jehan’s Song List (1951 – 1960)
Song Film Year Singers Music Director Lyricist Nache jia re chhama chham nache jia re Dopatta 1952 Noor Jehan, Chorus Feroze Nizami Mushir Kazmi / Arsh Lakhnavi Baat hi baat mein ji chandni raat mein Dopatta 1952 Noor Jehan Feroze Nizami Mushir Kazmi / Arsh Lakhnavi Main ban patang urh jaon re Dopatta 1952 Noor ...
Noor Jehan – Datta Korgoankar Collaboration
____________________ Back to Legends – Noor Jehan ____________________ Datta Korgoankar composed approximately 11 songs for Noor Jehan in Nadaan (1943) and Badi Maa (1945). He was a Noorjehan believer to the core. To date K Datta remains the only top composer from Maharashtra to whom Noorjehan came first, Lata after. No one regretted Partition more ...
Munawwar Sultana
Munawwar Sultana started her career as radio and playback singer probably around mid 40s. She used to take musical lessons from Master Ghulam Haider. She, along with the music composer G.A. Chisthi, is mostly credited for bringing the dead film industry of Lahore-Pakistan back to life. Munawwar Sultana sang the earliest hits in Pakistani films ...
Mujeeb Alam
I could not forget that brilliant rendering of Faiz’s Iss dhoop kinarey sham dhaley! Mujeeb Alam sang it for A.J. Kardar’s Qasam Uss Waqt kee, released in 1969, with his warmly vibrant voice that spoke volumes about the mix of dear wishes and secret sorrows that burgeoned in the bosom of all the truly patriotic ...
Firdousi Begum
The fascinating voice of Firdousi Begum reverberated in the horizons of the film world at the very outset of the 60′s. She made her debut with song Ankhain Tori Rah Takain in Urdu film Chanda which was released in 1962. The songs were so sweet that the cine lovers echoed them not only in the ...
Bashir Ahmed
When first I heard this most haunting number, Mera dil najaney kab se tera pyar dhoondta hai, from Iqbal Yusuf’s cloak-&-dagger movie, Hill Station, released in 1972, I was transported back to the days when I had visited East Pakistan at a very young age. The song seem to nostalgically harken back to the days ...
Noor Jehan
____________________ Back to Legends – Noor Jehan ____________________ Noor Jehan the Melody Queen reigned supreme over the South Asian music scene for more than six decades. She rose from near oblivion of the backwaters of Kasur, then hardly more than middle-sized Punjab town, to the dizzy heights of stardom as far back as the 40s, ...
Mehdi Hassan
Nowhere else in the world one can find any example where literature and music are inalienably strung together, save for Urdu adab. It is because in the subcontinent one of the richest genres of Urdu literature, ghazal is not only something to extract reading pleasure from but also to sing and lend one’s ears to. ...
Mala
In the good old days Mala was sometimes compared (erroneously) to Lata, perhaps due to her shrill voice and the duo of Rushdie-Mala was to the Pakistani films what Rafi-Lata was to the Indian counterpart. Mala’s real name was Naseem. She was born in Faisalabad, Punjab. She had been interested in singing and music from ...
Naseem Begum
Naseem Begum was a well known Pakistani playback singer who was born in Amritsar, British India, in 1936. She took her musical lessons from the classical singer Mukhtar Begum – elder sister of ghazal singer Farida Khanum and wife of noted poet and playwright, Agha Hashr Kashmiri. Naseem Begum started her career in late 50s ...
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Suraiya’s Song List (1941 – 1950): ____________________
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Lata Mangeshkar - Statistics with Female Singers: ____________________
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Return of the Legend - Reshma:
You can’t wait for this one. After a really prolonged period of time you’re going to see the one...
Mukesh – Part 4:
Perhaps the only calculating thing Mukesh ever did was to engineer an elopement to marry his bel...
Mohammad Rafi - Part 4: The non-controversial, low profile singer overrode professional ego at all times. Such was the supre...