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Sunday, July 18th, 2010 by admin

C.H. Atma Song List

____________________ Profile | Song List ____________________ Song Year Film Co-Singer Music Director Lyricist Dil beqaraar hai 1951 Nagina Shanker Jaikishan Hasrat Jaipuri Roun mai sagar kai kinare 1951 Nagina Shanker Jaikishan Shailendra Ek sitara hai aakash mein 1951 Nagina Shanker Jaikishan Shailendra Is bewafa jahan mein 1952 Aasmaan O.P. Nayyar Prem Dhawan Raat suhani hanste ...

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Saturday, July 17th, 2010 by admin

Lata Mangeshkar – Shamshad Begum Duets

____________________ Back to Legends – Shamshad Begum | Back to Legends – Lata Mangeshkar ____________________ Shamshad Begum was reigning playback queen when Lata joined the film industry. Therefore, it is not surprising that in their first song together [along with Mohantara Talapade], Lata sang with other chorus girls while Shamshad was the main singer! Their ...

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Saturday, July 17th, 2010 by admin

Shamshad Begum – Madan Mohan Collaboration

____________________ Back to Legends – Shamshad Begum ____________________ Madan Mohan was one of those music composers who used Shamshad as a stepping stone before moving on either to Lata Mangeshkar or Asha Bhosle. Lata was supposed to sing for his debut film Aankhen (1950), but according to Lata, ” In the meantime someone came and ...

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Saturday, July 17th, 2010 by admin

Naseem Akhtar

Naseem Akhtar was younger sister of Sardar Akhtar (wife of famous Indian director Mehboob Khan) and Bahar Akhtar (wife of A.R. Kardar – another famous Indian director credited for establishing the film industry of Lahore). Details are sketchy about Naseem Akhtar. She was an established playback singer before partition and sang for major music directors ...

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Saturday, July 17th, 2010 by admin

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 ...

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Saturday, July 17th, 2010 by admin

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 ...

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Saturday, July 17th, 2010 by admin

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 ...

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Saturday, July 17th, 2010 by admin

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 ...

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Saturday, July 17th, 2010 by admin

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, ...

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Saturday, July 17th, 2010 by admin

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. ...

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