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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 A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lollywood
Lollywood ( ur, , translit=lâli vuḍ) refers to Pakistan's film industry based in Lahore, previously the base for both Punjabi and Urdu language film production. Lahore has been the center of Pakistani cinema since the partition of India in 1947. However, with Urdu film hub largely shifting to Karachi by 2007, film industry in Lahore became synonymous with Pakistani Punjabi film Industry. The word "Lollywood" is a portmanteau of "Lahore" and " Hollywood", coined in 1989 by Glamour magazine gossip columnist Saleem Nasir, and is usually used comparatively with respect to other film industries in South Asian cinema. Etymology "Lollywood" is a portmanteau derived from Lahore and "Hollywood", a shorthand reference for the American film industry, Hollywood. History Prior to the 1947 partition of India into the Republic of India and Pakistan, the Lahore film industry was initially part of the British Raj era cinema of India. The Bombay cinema industry (now kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmad Rahi
Ahmad Rahi (12 November 1923 – 2 September 2002) was a Punjabi poet and writer from Pakistan. Early life He was born 12 November 1923 in Amritsar, British India. His real name was Ghulam Ahmad, a name given by his spiritual leader Khorsheed Ahmad. He completed his basic early education from Amritsar, India in 1940. After completing his high school, he got admission in M.A.O. College, Lahore but was expelled due to taking part in political movements. After expulsion, he joined his father in his business of selling embroidered wool shawls in the local market. Life and film career in Pakistan After independence of Pakistan in 1947, he migrated to Pakistan and joined the magazine ''Sawera'' as an editor in Lahore. He was paid Rupees 25 as monthly salary back then. He wrote about the events and bloodshed leading to independence of Pakistan in 1947 which was a very painful personal experience for him due to the atrocities committed by Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus against each other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMDb
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered users with a prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akhlaq Ahmed
Akhlaq Ahmed ( ur, ; 10 January 1946 – 4 August 1999) was a Pakistani film playback singer and still considered one of the leading voices of the film industry. Early life and career He was born in Delhi in 1946 and started as a stage singer in the 1960s in Karachi, when he was a member of a famous singing group with two other artists, Masood Rana and Nadeem. Akhlaq Ahmad was the third generation of male playback singers in the Pakistan film industry. He struggled for many years, but gained some recognition in the 1970s as a playback singer. "Sona Na Chandi Na Koi Mahal" film song in film ''Bandish'' (1980), and "Sawan Aye Sawan Jaye" in film ''Chahat'' (1974), are his big hit film songs. Both of these film songs were composed by music director Robin Ghosh. His song tally is under one hundred songs. Famous Indian singer Sonu Nigam sang many songs of Akhlaq Ahmed as Sonu's voice closely resembles with Akhlaq's and released these songs in late 1990s. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fayyaz Hashmi
Fayyaz Hashmi ( ur, ; 1920 2011) was a Pakistani poet and screenwriter who worked both in the Indian and Pakistani film industry. He penned some memorable songs such as the famous nazm Aaj Jaane Ki Zid Na Karo and ''Tasveer teri dil mera behela nah sakegi''. The latter made the singer Talat Mahmood famous in India back in 1944 and was instrumental in introducing him to the Calcutta film industry. A little known fact about him is that he wrote the famous 'Na tum mere na dil mera', that was sung by Kamla Jharia, among many others. One of the couplets from this ghazal became popular that reads: 'aye bas naadaniyon par apni naaz karte hain, abhi dekhi kahan hain aapne naadaniyan meri' and then "Yeh Raatein, Yeh Mausam, Yeh Hansana Hansaana, Mujhe Bhool Jana, Inhein Na Bhulana" sung by Pankaj Mullick (a non-film song). [...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 ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Naseem Begum
Naseem Begum ( ur, ), (24 February 1936 – 29 September 1971) was a popular, and well known Pakistani film playback singer. She was known as ''The Tradegy Queen'' for singing sorrowful and downhearted songs in films. She rose to prominence towards the end of the 1950s, and by 1964, she had won the prestigious Nigar Awards on four occasions. Despite originally being billed as a ''Second Noor Jehan'', Naseem Begum quickly carved out her own successful niche in the Pakistani film industry. She was the original singer of the popular song "Aye Rahe Haq Ke Shaheedo". Early life Naseem Begum was born in the city of Amritsar, British India, in 1936. She acquired her musical training from the classical singer Mukhtar Begum, the elder sister of the renowned ghazal vocalist Farida Khanum. Career Her first film, as a playback singer, was music director Ghulam Ahmed Chishti composed ''Guddi Gudda'' (1956). In 1958, the music composer Mian Sheharyar was greatly impressed by her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inayat Hussain Bhatti
Inayat Hussain Bhatti ( ur, ), (12 January 1928 – 31 May 1999) was a Pakistani film playback singer, film actor, producer, director, script writer, social worker, columnist, religious scholar and a promoter of the development of the Punjabi language and literature. Early life history Bhatti was born in Gujrat on 12 January 1928 in a Punjabi family. In December 1948, he moved to Lahore to study law and initially stayed at MAO College Lahore hostel in Lahore. A few months after his arrival in Lahore, he did his first performance on stage in the YMCA Hall, Lahore. After his YMCA auditorium performance, Bhatti accompanied Ijaz Gilani to Radio Pakistan, Lahore, where he met and became a formal pupil of ''Master Niaz Hussain Shami'', a composer then working for Radio Pakistan in Lahore. It was his association with and training under Master Niaz Hussain Shami, which facilitated Bhatti's participation in regular radio programs as a singer. He sometimes used to accept character ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hazin Qadri
Bashir Ahmad (9 April 1926 – 19 March 1991), known as Hazin Qadri, was a Punjabi film song lyricist and film screenwriter from Pakistan. Early life Qadri was born Bashir Ahmad in a small village 'Raja Tamoli' near Gujranwala, British India on 9 April 1926. He could not complete his education beyond the elementary or primary school due to poverty. As a young man, he was eager to get an opportunity to try his luck in the then newly established Pakistani film industry after 1947. After two years of struggle, he was given a chance to write his first film song by the veteran film producer and director Anwar Kamal Pasha for his upcoming film Do Ansoo (1950). The film turned out to be a 'hit film'. Career Qadri's second film was ''Nath'' (1952) in which he wrote all the film songs, film script, story and dialogue. This film did not have any commercial success. Then his breakthrough first hit film song came in ''Pattan'' (1955 film): * ''Saada Sajra Pyar, Kahay Baar Baar, Keeta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |