(Photo: Facebook/ is the original version of the song: It will be very unfair to treat Farida Khanum as a one-song-wonder. The song that her name conjures is Aaj Jaane Ki Zidd Na Karo from the film Badal Aur Bijli (1973). The original creators and singer can only take a backseat and watch their creation being majestically moved to the universal stage by the sheer genius of the cover singer.įarida Khanum. Their new interpreter turns the original creation into an ‘institution’ and gets indelibly associated with it. The song would forever be linked to only one person who came to the party later. However, it was Rafi who brought the ghazal into the national consciousness.Ī similar fate befell Habib Wali Mohammad regarding this song.
The ghazal became very popular since it was broadcast on Radio Ceylon. While he eventually migrated to Pakistan in 1957, he was well-known in India, having recorded Lagta Nahin Hai Ji Mera under the music direction of Saraswati Devi (India's first female music director). This MBA from Syracuse University, New York, was based in Bombay and hailed from the family of an industrialist. Fayyaz Hashmi is the well-known Pakistani film lyricist whose very first song - Sab Din Ek Samaan Nahi Tha - in 1941 launched Talat Mehmood.Īnd then there is the singer who initially presented the creation to the world - Habib Wali Mohammad.
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Sohail Rana is the Pakistani film music director par excellence, composer of Mehdi Hassan’s inarguably best Pakistani film song - Mujhe Tum Nazar Se, and one of Ahmed Rushdi’s finest - Haan Isi Mod Par, both the songs from Doraha (1967). In this case, two creators - Sohail Rana and Fayyaz Hashmi. Sometimes a creation becomes bigger than its creator.
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