nusrat fateh ali khan with michael brook - Intoxicted

THE CLOUD IS COMING!!!

The Culture.

Dunya Jise Kahtay Hain............

The Sweet Sounds of Gazal.

Chitra & Jagjit Singh.

Nasir Kazmi

Syed Nasir Raza Kazmi, (1925–1972) (Urdu: سید ناصر رضا كاظمی ) was a renowned Urdu poet of Pakistan. He was one of the greatest poets of this era, especially in the use of "ista'aaray" and "chhotee beher".

Kazmi was born on December 8, 1925 at Ambala in British India. He was educated at Ambala, Simla and Lahore. He returned to Ambala in 1945 and started looking after his ancestral land. After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, he came to Lahore. He did some journalistic work with Auraq-e-Nau as an editor and became editor-in-chief of the magazine Humayun in 1952. Later he was associated with Radio Pakistan, Lahore and other literary publications and organizations.

Nasir Kazmi started his poetic life in 1940 by following the style of Akhtar Sherani and wrote romantic poems and sonnets. Later he began writing ghazals under the guidance of Hafeez Hoshyarpuri. He was a great admirer of Mir Taqi Mir and probably the melancholy and "Ehsaas-e-Mehroomi" in his poetry was a direct result of that. His tutor in poetry was Hafeez Hoshyarpuri, who himself used a lot of symbols from nature in his poems.

                             Nasir, few days before his death, said in a TV interview by Intezaar Hussain, that 'horse riding, hunting, wandering in a village, walk along the river side, visiting mountains etc. were my favourite pastimes and probably this was the time when my mind got nourishment for loving nature and getting close to the expression of poetry. All my hobbies are related with fine arts, like singing, poetry, hunting, chess, love of birds, love of trees etc... i started poetry because I used to reflect that all the beautiful things those I see, and those in nature are not in my hands, and they go away from me. Few moments, that time which dies, cannot be made alive. I think can be alive in poetry, that is why I(Nasir) started poetry!' Nowadays, very few people may remember that Nasir used to hum his poetic verses and that humming had much attraction in it.
                              He migrated from Ambala, India to Lahore Pakistan in August 1947. He also worked as a Staff Editor in Radio Pakistan. He used to sit at Tea House and wander at Mall Rd, Lahore with his friends. He was fond of eating, wandering and enjoying life. Normally people take him as a sad poet but most of his poetry is based on romantic happiness and the aspect of hope.
His last four books tragically were published after his death. He died in Lahore on March 2, 1972 due to stomach cancer. Few people know that he did some great translations of English poets, especially his translation of Walt Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" by the title of "Brooklyn Ghaat Ke Paar" is a real masterpiece and worth reading.


Selection from the Nasir Kazmi's Poetry:

Inception of Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Hum nay sub Sher main sumwaray thay.......

ZIA MOHIUDDIN READS PITRAS BUKHARI WRITING.......

Mureed Poor ka Peer 

The Glourious Taj Mahel.

The Palace Of the Lover King.

PARNIDAY BY MUSTANSAR HUSSAIN TARRAR

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YEH ALAM SHOUQ KA IS A BEAUTIFULL GAZAL.

YEH ALAM SHOUQ KA DEKHA NA JAEY -

GAZAL BY TAHIRA SYED, WRITTEN BY AHMAD FARAZ 

 

The Fadingout Sadness.

Begum Akhtar -

laayee hayaat aaye  Quza lay challe chalay

 

THE PRESPECTIVE.

ZAVIA VOL 3 is a book complied on a popular PTV show lectures conducted  by great Urdu writer Ashaq Ahmed- 
Zavia is about life ,times and choices we get to make in different situation, Moreover this book is about a great man, looking for goodness, in all godly creations.

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THE PRECIOUS MADHUBALA.

Mumtaz Jahan Begum Dehlavi,
known by her stage name Madhubala (Devnagari: (14 February 1933 - 23 February 1969) was a popular Hindi movie actress. She starred in several successful movies in the 1950s and early 1960s, many of which have attained a classic status. With her contemporaries Nargis and Meena Kumari, she is widely regarded as one of the most talented Hindi movie actresses.

Madhubala was born in New Delhi, India on 14 February 1933 in a Muslim family from Afghanistan, member of the Nawabi family of Kabul, branch of the royal dynasty of the Mohammadzay (called also Barakzay), her grandparents were exiled by Afghanistan's Amir to India. She was the fifth child among eleven children of a conservative Muslim couple. After Madhubala's father Ataullah Khan lost his job at the Imperial Tobacco Company in Peshawer^[3], the father relocated his family to Mumbai. Young Mumtaz entered the movie industry at the age of nine.

Mumtaz’s first movie Basant (1942) was a box-office success^[4]. She played in it as the daughter of the popular actress Mumtaz Shanti. She went on to act in several movies as a child artist. Actress Devika Rani was impressed by her performances and potential and advised her to assume the name Madhubala^[5]. Madhubala soon garnered reputation as a reliable professional performer. By the time she entered adolescence, she was being groomed for lead roles.

Madhubala was found to have a heart problem after she coughed up blood in 1950. She was discovered to have been born with a ventricular septal defect, commonly known as a "hole in the heart". At the time, heart surgery was not widely available.

But her condition took its toll and she died in 1969 at age 36. For most of the 1950s, Madhubala performed successfully despite her illnesss.

In her short life, Madhubala made over 70 films. In all three biographies and numerous articles published on her, she has been compared with Marilyn Monroe and has a similarly iconic position in Indian film history. Perhaps because she died before being relegated to supporting or character roles, to this day Madhubala remains one of the most enduring and celebrated legends of Indian cinema. Her continuing appeal to film fans was underlined in a 1990 poll conducted by Movie magazine. Madhubala was voted the most popular vintage Hindi actress of all time, garnering 58% of the votes, and out ranking contemporary legendary actresses Meena Kumari, Nargis, and Nutan.
 

Beautiful voice of Kiran Ahulawalia-

"jo bacay hain sung samat lo
taan e daag e daar lota diya"

Beautiful Faiz gazal sung in the beautiful voice of Kiran Ahulawalia
Different & worth listening

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