POET LYRICIST SAHIR LUDHIANVI, WAQT , GRUNDIG TAPE RECORDER AND AFGHAN COMPOSER BRESHNA .

                                     

 

SAHIR LUDHIANVI, WAQT AND GRUNDIG TAPE RECORDER...

 

B R Chopra gifted a Grundig ( German) tape recorder to Sahir after Waqt touched unprecedented heights of collections at the box office .In the above  photograph , Sahir is showing the tape recorder to his mother Sardar Begum.Sahir had written songs for Waqt. Songs like , ' Hum jab simat ke aap ki baahon mein aa gaye ', ' Din hain bahaar ke' , 'Kaun aaya ki nigaahon mein chamak jaag uthi' , 'Waqt se din aur raat' , 'Aey meri zohra jabeen', 'Chehre pe khushi chha jaati hai ' , 'Aage bhi jaane na tu ' and 'Maine ek khwaab sa dekha hai' .

Incidentally the lines

'Maine dekha hai ki gaate

Huve jharanon ke qareeb

Apni betaabiye jazabaat

Kahi hai tum ne,

Kanpate hothon se rukati

Huyi aavaz ke saath,

Jo mere dil mein thi

woh baat kahi hai tum ne'

 

of the song ' Maine ek khwaab sa dekha hai 'were picturised near the central cascading water canal of famous Nishat garden of Kashmir. Some intensely romantic verses were brought into this composition by Sahir. 

Sahir had also suggested to B R Chopra to engage Afghan painter cum musician , Abdul Ghafoor Breshna for composing song' Aey meri zohra jabeen'. And that proved correct. All other songs were composed by music director Ravi. Breshna was a poet ,painter,singer , playwright and fantastic musician from Afghanistan. He was trained in Germany where he married a German girl. Most of his paintings have been destroyed and lost in the four decades of turmoil and war in Afghanistan. Amongst some great paintings of Breshna that were lost in the Afghanistan turmoil , one can include the' Bamiyan Buddhas 'painted by him.  Born in 1907, Breshna died in Kabul in 1974 .He had composed the national anthem of Afghanistan that was used in 1970s.

 

                                                                    

                                          ( A self sketch by Abdul Ghafoor Breshna )

                                               ( A portrait by Abdul Ghafoor Breshna )

 

So long so much.....

 

 

(Avar Mota)

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