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Mushir Kazmi
Mushir Kazmi (1915 – 8 December 1975) was a film songs lyricist and a poet from Pakistan and India. Early life and career Mushir Kazmi was born in Banoor, Punjab, British India in 1915. Breakthrough film song of his career has a fascinating story behind it – ''Chandani Raatein'' of Dopatta (1952 film). He was hired by the film producer Sibtain Fazli to write the film songs. He tried and wrote many songs but they failed to get his approval. Finally he was given one more day to come up with a film song or be fired from his job. Dejected and feeling down, he went to the roof top of a Lahore building in the evening and laid down on a bed to stare at the night sky above him. At that moment, the words of this highly popular film song were born. Mushir Kazmi ended up writing 97 film songs later for more than 50 films during his career. Death Mushir Kazmi died on 8 December 1975 in Lahore and was buried at Mominpura Graveyard The Mominpura Graveyard is a Shia cemetery i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Runa Laila
Runa Laila ( bn, রুনা লায়লা, ur, ; born 17 November 1952) is a Bangladeshi playback singer and composer. She started her career in Pakistan film industry in the late 1960s. Her style of singing is inspired by Pakistani playback singer Ahmed Rushdi and she also made a pair with him after replacing another singer Mala. Her playback singing in films – ''The Rain'' (1976), '' Jadur Banshi'' (1977), ''Accident'' (1989), ''Ontore Ontore'' (1994), ''Devdas'' (2013) and ''Priya Tumi Shukhi Hou'' (2014) - earned her seven Bangladesh National Film Awards for Best Female Playback Singer. She won the Best Music Composer award for the film ''Ekti Cinemar Golpo'' (2018). Early life Laila was born in Sylhet to Syed Mohammed Imdad Ali, a civil servant posted in Karachi, and Amina Laila. She started taking dance lessons of Kathak and Bharatanatyam genre. In those days, Ahmed Rushdi was the leading film singer who introduced rock n roll, disco and other modern genres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Ambala
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1975 Deaths
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up. * January 2 ** The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress. ** Bangladesh revolutionary leader Siraj Sikder is killed by police while in custody. ** A bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways. * January 5 – Tasman Bridge disaster: The Tasman Bridge in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier , killing 12 people. * January 7 – OPEC agrees to raise crude oil prices by 10%. * January 10–February 9 – The flight of ''Soyuz 17'' with the crew of Georgy Grechko and Aleksei Gubarev aboard the ''Salyut 4'' space station. * January 15 – Alvor Agreement: Portuga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1915 Births
Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". *January 1 ** WWI: British Royal Navy battleship HMS ''Formidable'' is sunk off Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, by an Imperial German Navy U-boat, with the loss of 547 crew. ** Battle of Broken Hill: A train ambush near Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, is carried out by two men (claiming to be in support of the Ottoman Empire) who are killed, together with 4 civilians. * January 5 – Joseph E. Carberry sets an altitude record of , carrying Capt. Benjamin Delahauf Foulois as a passenger, in a fixed-wing aircraft. * January 12 ** The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote. ** '' A Fool There Was'' premières in the United States, starring Theda Bara as a '' femme fatale''; she quickly become ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mujeeb Alam
Mujeeb Aalam (2 September 1948 – 2 June 2004) was a Pakistani playback singer who had a short film career. His singing style was a mixture of Mehdi Hassan and Ahmad Rushdi's style. He sang dozens of hit songs in late 1960s. However, he lost his popularity in mid-1970s as more versatile singers like Akhlaq Ahmed and A Nayyar entered Pakistan film industry. Early life and career Mujeeb Alam was born in 1948 in the city of Kanpur and then settled with his parents in Lahore. He started his career at the age of 14 from Radio Pakistan, Lahore. Musician ''Hassan Latif'' gave him the chance to sing in his film Nargis, but the film didn't release. However, in 1966, he recorded songs for the film ''Jalwa'' and in 1967, a song from Chakori ''Woh mere samney'' became popular. He got recognition in the mid- sixties and became one of the prominent playback singers in the industry. He sang over 12,000 songs and won a number of awards. He also performed at hundreds of musical concerts i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dillagi (1974 Film)
''Dillagi'' ( ur, ) is a 1974 Pakistani romantic drama Urdu film directed by ''Aslam Dar''. The movie cast included Shabnam, Nadeem, Lehri, Nayyar Sultana, and Agha Talish. Dillagi was a platinum jubilee hit film in the Karachi cinemas citcuit and won 3 Nigar Awards. The music of ''Dillagi'' became very popular, especially the tracks, "''Dillagi mein aisi dil ko lagi''" and "''Murjhaye hue phoolon ki qasam''" were the popular songs in Pakistan. Plot The film story is about a poor motor mechanic who, on every payday, spends his whole salary by pretending to be rich. His ladylove is the daughter of a millionaire, who pretends to be a poor girl. He gives her a lift in a rainy night of one such payday while driving back from a high society club in his precious but borrowed car. Both, while still hiding their true status, fall in love with each other. The girl soon finds out his true identity as a motor mechanic who is an employee of a music-loving workshop owner, but she continues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Master Rafiq Ali
Master Rafiq Ali was a Pakistani music director. He is known for composing playback music for Lollywood movies '' Chhoomantar'' (1958), ''Akhri Chattan'' (1970), ''Sakhi Lutera'' (1971), '' Dillagi'' (1974), and ''Zubaida'' (1976). Career ''Rafiq Ali'' started his career as a music director with the film ''Chhoomantar'' in 1958. In the movie, the actor ''Zarif'' and Zubaida Khanum sang the song "''Bure Naseeb Mere Vairi Hoya Pyaar Mera''" both individually and in duos. In 1970, ''Rafiq Ali'' was hired by director ''Aslam Dar'' for his movie ''Aakhri Chattan''. "''Hum Hain Deewane Tere, Ashiq Parwane Tere''" was a chorus-based song by ''Musheer Kazmi'' that was written for Mala. Rafiq's next film was Zia Mohyeddin's ''Mujrim Kaun'' (1970). "''Mere Mehboob Mere Pyaar Kei Qabil Tu Hei''" by Noor Jehan and "''Honton Pe Tabasum Nazar Sehmi Sehmi''" by Mala and Ahmad Rushdi were notable songs from the movie. The 1974 film '' Dillagi'' was a crucial milestone in the career of ''Rafiq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masood Rana
Masood Rana ( ur, , 6 August 1941 – 4 October 1995) was a Pakistani film playback singer. He began his singing career in 1962 with the film ''Inqalab'', became one of the top male singers in both Urdu and Punjabi films for more than three decades and remained a busy singer until his death in 1995. Rana still holds the record of singing more than 300 film songs in each of the two languages - Urdu and Punjabi, an all-time record shared with Ahmed Rushdi and Noor Jehan. Early life Masood Rana was born in Mirpur Khas, Sindh, then British India, on 6 August 1941. He was born in a Rajput land-owning family which had migrated from the East Punjab city of Jalandhar. He started his singing career on Radio Pakistan, Hyderabad, Sindh in 1955 and later helped establish a singing group in Karachi in the early 1960s with the Pakistani film actor Nadeem Baig and a fellow singer Akhlaq Ahmed. Film career Masood Rana got his first breakthrough when the noted Pakistani film actor '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Master Abdullah
Master Abdullah ( Punjabi, ur, ), (1930 – 31 January 1994) was a Pakistani film music composer. He is known for his music in movies like, "''Badla''" (1968), "''Commander''" (1968), "Ziddi" (1973), and "''Sheeshay Ka Ghar''" (1978). Early life and family He was born in 1930 in Lahore. His elder brother Master Inayat Hussain (1923-1993) was a film music composer in the early days of Pakistan film industry and was better known in Pakistan than Master Abdullah himself. Career Master Abdullah began his film career in 1962 with an Urdu language film ''Suraj Mukhi (1962)''. Major Films of Master Abdullah * Malangi (1965) * ''Laado'' (1966) * ''Badla'' (1968) * ''Commander'' (1968) * ''Rangu Jatt'' (1970) * Ziddi (1973) (won for this film Best Film Music Director Nigar Award in 1973) * ''Shehanshah'' (1974) * Sharif Badmash (1975) * ''Sheeshay Ka Ghar'' (1978) * ''Jatt Mirza'' (1982) * ''Qismet'' (1985) Compositions Songs composed by Master Abdullah include: * ''Mahi way saano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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