Looking for a job, Manoj sings Mukesh’s song ‘Gardish Main Haun Tare Na Ghabrana Pyare’ but he faces the ‘No Vacancy’ sign where ever he goes looking for a job. Shakila with her hairdo looked modern for that decade. It is a melodious song composed in medium tempo filmed in the mountains. Another song ‘Zulfon Ki Ghata Lei Kar Sawen Ki Pari Aai’ is a duet by Manna Dey and Asha Bhosle with Sitar and Sarangi interludes from this movie. The soft timber of Talat Mahmud still resounds in my ears when I listen to this melody even today. Music was given by Babul, a melody maker sparingly used by Bollywood, perhaps because Shankar Jaikishen, S D Burman, Naushad Ali and alike were ruling the Indian film music scene in those days.
Singh, Kamal Kapoor, Jankidas, Indu Shivraj, Shammi, Sulochana Chatterjee, Maruti, Sulochana starrer movie of 1961 with lovely lyrics by Raja Mehdi Ali Khan. This was a Manoj Kumar, Shakeela, Helen, K. Watching this song on video brought back memories of black & white days when young Manoj Kumar remembers his beloved Shakila in wilderness. Akbar himself started a largely secular sect called Din-E Elahi which advocated equality of all human being and respected all religions equally.I was playing the song ‘Jab Chaye Kabhi Sawen Ki Ghata Ro Ro Kei Na Karna Yaad Mujhe’ from Indian film ‘Reshmi Roomaal’ in the voice of Talat Mahmud, a colleague sitting in the Pakistan Music Center observed that listening to it reminded him of the good old days when such songs were heard on the radio in the quiet of night. Their marriage cemented the Mughal Empire in India and laid the foundation of its secular character, which was important in making it one of the largest and the most prosperous empires of all times.It also laid the foundation of secularism in India that has surived over half a millennia, in spite of many fanatic rulers, who proposered and perished with time during this duration. She was allowed to retain her religion even after her marriage to the Muslim Emperor. In the movie JODHA AKBAR, the context of the song is provided by marriage of Akbar, the Moghul Emperor of India, with the daughter of Hindu king Man Singh of Amber. Here are some great gems of Bollywood - the ten best ever qawwali songs.Ī great qawwali from 'Jodha Akbar' Khwaja mere khwaja.Ī modern qawwali that aptly highlight the secular character of music and its unlimited reach among the masses, this qawwali is also a showpiece of the genius called A R Rahman, the only Bollywood composer to have been awarded with both Oscars and Grammies.
joining people from all religions and communities by bringing them to the common platform of love, humanity and of course. On one hand, it is the staple ingredient of Sufi shrines and on the other, it has grown into the music of love and selflessness. Ironically, while it has become restricted to deovtional music in the Middle Eastern canvass, in Bollywood, it has grown across all expressions of life and its celebration. As a genre, the Indian Qawwali has evolved from the fusion of traditional Indian classical music and Persian-Islamic music brought to India from the culturally rich exchanges with Persia and Turkey during the reign of the Islamic dynasties in the second half of the last millennium.Īlthough, its origin is old and it did prosper during medieval ages, its real peak has arrived only in recent times, when it began to prosper as a popular music form among all classes of people in erstwhile undivided India and after its division, in both India and Pakistan.
Qawwali is a form of music that reached its zenith in South Asia during the last few centuries. Bollywood Qawwalis Best Ever Qawwalis of Bollywood