Adil Najam
I have spent much of today reading, remembering and listening to the poetry of Munir Niazi, who died yesterday.
This is probably the best way to celebrate the life and work of a poet. The celebration of his work has gone on on this blog from a while (here, here, here and here) and, as I said yesterday, will no doubt continue.
I wanted to share two things with you that I have been listening to all day.
The first is this delectable ghazal sung delectably by Ghulam Ali (listen here):
bechain bohat phirna, ghabrai hooway rehna
Ik aag si jazbouN ki dehkai hooway rehna
Aadat hi bana li hai, tum nay to Muneer Apni
Jis shehr meiN bhi rehna, uktai hooway rehna
Also, by way of homage to Muneer Niazi is this video clip of his memorable film song “Uss Bewafa ka Shehr,” from the movie Shaheed, the singer is Nasim Begum, the actress is a young Mussarrat Nazir, and the music is by Rasheed Attre.
Bechain bohat phirna… in Urdu
Check:
http://www.familyofheart.com/doc/Munir_Naizi.htm
Comments in English, Urdu and Panjabi.
Moeen, if you say so.
Here is a Munir Niazi couplet of relevance
vaapas na jaa vahaaN ke tairay shahr meiN Muneer
jo jis jagah pay thaa vo vahaaN nahiN raha
Samdani: If you have ever done ‘Isiq’ & had a heart-break, you’ll appriciate that Musarat Nazir is not over-reacting….
Very nice selction on both the ghazal and the film song. Had never seen Musarrat Nazeer acting so this was interesting too. Although I think she is grossly overacting. But, what a wonderful and powerful song.