Naheed niazi biography of martin
Prime Minister Imran Khan's connections go well beyond the boundaries of cricket and politics.
One of his father's cousins Sajjad Sarwar Khan Niazi was a talented lyricist as well as music composer, who served as Director of Radio Peshawar and later Radio Pakistan Karachi as well. As a poet and musician, he is best known for his nazm Ik baar phir kaho zara.
On 16 December , Radio Lahore went on air and based on her popularity among Punjabi music enthusiasts and also because she regularly visited Radio Peshawar for broadcasts, a young lady named Miss Shamshad was selected to perform this nazm at the debut broadcast.
As an approved singer in the genre of folk, she used to sing Punjabi solos, duets and chorus songs created mostly by composers Master Inayat Hussain and Bhai Budh Singh Taan. Miss Shamshad was later to become the iconic Shamshad Begum that we know today.
Sajjad was blessed with five beautiful daughters. Little did he know that one of them, Shahida) would end up recordingthis nazm 30 years later (under her assumed name Nahid) in the same composition but in her own voice, making it not only a immortal non-filmi classic, but through it also creating a unique bond with her father, which will continue perhaps forever.
In many ways, Nahid was never in the mainstream singers’ fraternity.
She was still attending St. Joseph's Convent School Karachi when she recorded her first song for Laila Majnu.
Naheed niazi biography of martin johnson PrePartition artists. No body in Pakistan are keen to accept the fact that it was the movies from the East Pakistan Now Bangladesh and the majority of artists kept the Film Industry on top even though the West was producing more number of movies and financially better off than their counter part in the East, the quality of movies were above par to what was coming out of Lahore and Karachi studios. Of these seven were in Urdu, which included Sangam. Indian Bengalis have also had major contribution in Hindi films and have produced some of the world's best known directors like Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak.While Laila Majnureleased in April was her first film, Khwaja Khurshid Anwar's Mohe piya milan ko jaane de was her first major hit. She then went on to The College of Home Economics, first in Karachi and then Lahore, when the family relocated. On days of rehearsals and song recordings, she would often attend with her notebook and at times coming straight from college, doing her recording and leaving right away to attend to her college assignments.
With more time available post-graduation, her recordings moved up into high gear rather dramatically, and so did her personal life.
Naheed niazi biography of martin lawrence But in addition to the picturesque background, there was also the realistic acting and lilting music. Dec 13, pm. After listening to "Raat saloni" music buffs had drawn the conclusion that the wistful magic of Naheed has a capacity and depth almost to mesmerize listeners. Basit Ali Really?She got married to composer Moslehuddin in January , who hailed from East Pakistan. By then, he too had become an established and sought-after music director who composed and recorded many of her popular songs, remembered even today.
Apart from her husband Moslehuddin, Nahid Niazi sang for almost all major composers including Rasheed Attre, Khwaja Khurshid Anwar, Nashad, Safdar Hussain, Rehman Verma, Saif Chughtai, Khalil Ahmed, Nisar Bazmi, Master Inayat Hussain, Robin Ghosh, Sohail Rana, Saleem-Iqbal, Akhtar Hussain Akhian, Hasan Latif, GA Chishti, Ashiq Hussain, Debu Bhattacharya and many others.
She provided playback to almost all top actresses of her time, recording over songs for over films in Urdu, Punjabi and Bengali – and many non-filmi tracks.
During the period itself, she recorded over 60 songs.
I am taking the liberty of sharing here just a few songs from my personal selection.
Moslehuddin
- Zamana pyar ka itna hi kam hai - Aadmi
- Jaag taqdeer ko jaga loongi - Aadmi
- Zindagi mein ek pal bhi chein aye na - Humsafar
- Raat saloni ayee baat anokhi layee (duet with Ahmed Rushdi) - Zamana kya kahay ga
- Kyun huzoor kyun (duet with Ahmed Rushdi) - Jab Dil Ne Tujhe Maan Liya
- Mera kaha kabhi maan lo - Aadmi
- Raat chali hai jhoom ke - Josh
Khwaja Khurshid Anwar
- Rim jhim rim jhim pade phuar - Koel
- Chali re chali re, badi aas laga ke chali re - Jhoomar
- Raqs mein hai sara jahan (with chorus) - Ayaz
Rasheed Attre
- Zamana kis qadar namehrbaan hai - Farishta
Safdar Hussain
- Sayyan ji ko dhoondne chali - Nagin
Khalil Ahmed
- Tujh ko maloom nahi - Aanchal
Sohail Rana
- Ye kaisa gham hai - Jab Se Dekha Hai Tumhein
- Pyar ka sama arzoo jawan - Jab Se Dekha Hai Tumhein
Saif Chughtai
- Dil ne banaya tujhe meet pia - Apna Paraya
- Ye hawa ye bahar ki khushi - Apna Paraya
Rehman Verma
Shauq say nazara kijiye - Ek Thi Maa
G.A.
Chishti
Behki behki hawa ja re ja - Saltanat
Nahid Niazi settled down in the UK and lives in Birmingham. She continues to work on music projects and frequently records TV programs for BBC and other channels.Naheed niazi biography of martin Along the way she left the treasure of a lifetime. The movie won several international prizes and is listed by the NY Times among the greatest films ever made. As literature doesn't have geo-political boundary, still the nations of South Asia can enrich their own literature through arranging film festival amongst the SAARC Countries. Masoud "Pakistan lost nothing in the name of culture because east Pakistan was much different from West " Exactly, and hence we lost cultural diversity - something that we don't value at all.
I was privileged to spend some time with her in November , when I was there on a consulting assignment, and then again in June at a family wedding in London.
Nahid Niazi and Moslehuddin were both recipients of the President's Pride of Performance and Tamgha-e-Imtiaz medals presented to them by the President of Pakistan in
I thought I would close with a very soulful but unusual composition of Moslehuddin.
In Mujhe Apni Dunya Mein Wapas Bulale (Deewana, ), the maestro used the voices of Nahid Niazi and her four sisters to provide the haunting chorus support to Madam Noor Jehan. This rare gem could very well go down in history as the first and perhaps only pure choir used in a Pakistani film song, which featured the convent-trained voices of five biological daughters of an accomplished father, and the creator of the immortal Ik baar phir kaho zara.
How often can that happen!
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Siraj Khan
The author is a Karachi-born, Boston-based global finance and audit specialist.
A connoisseur of South Asian film music, he has written scripts and directed concerts in the USA, South Asia and the UAE. He believes in using art and culture to build bridges.