
So what are you waiting for? Go now, it’s time for you to pay homage to your favourite ghazal that has held you in thick and thin. There is always that one ghazal that becomes your companion on the dusky beach walking along with you and making a home in your heart. Ghazal that has sailed you through, comforted you in the winter nights, the one that you hummed ardently for your lover and the one in whose lap you found solace when you were busted. I am sure there is this one ghazal that had remained with you forever and has struck the deepest of the chord in you. All of us have our personal favourites from many of the treasured ghazals. The Hindi Cinema has given us so many evergreen ghazals that it is impossible to cover all. Tu mujhse khafaa hai tou zamaane ke liye aa. Rasm-o-rah-e-duniya hi nibhane ke liye aa Pahle se marasim na sahi phir bhi kabhi to Ranjish hi sahi dil hi dukhane ke liye aaĪa phir se mujhe chhoD ke jaane ke liye aa The ghazal is a call of a dejected lover asking for his love to come back to him. Written by Ahmad Faraz the ghazal has been sung by Iqbal Bano and later Mehdi Hasan rendered his voice to this beautiful ghazal. Ranjish hi sahi dil hi dukhane ke liye aa: Salma Agha in ‘Nikaah’ (Pic credit:Pinterest) She was also honoured with Filmfare Best Female Playback singer Award for the same. Salma Agha Pakistani born British actor and singer had us all in tears with her heart-wrenching ghazal.
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Salma Agha the actress in the Nikaah movie also sung one ghazal for the movie herself. Khii.nch lenaa vo meraa parde kaa konaa daf-a-tanĪur dupaTTe me.n vo teraa mu.Nh chhupaanaa yaad hai Ham ko ab tak aashiqii kaa vo zamaanaa yaad hai

Merii tarah teraa dil beqaraar hai ki nahii.n …Ĭhupake chupake raat din aa.Nsuu bahaanaa yaad hai Tuu apane dil kii javaa.N ko gin ke bataa … Jhukii jhukii sii nazar beqaraar hai ki nahii.nĭabaa dabaa saa sahii dil me.n pyaar hai ki nahii.n … Shabana Azmi in ‘Arth’ (pic-credit: Pinterest) The ghazal is from the 1982 Film Arth starring Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Kulbhushan Kharbanda and Raj Kiran. Here is the famous ghazal of Kaifi Azmi, rendered in the voice of our own Jagjit Singh. Along with writers Sahir Ludhyanvi, Jan Nisar Akhtar, Kaifi Azmi too have a hand in changing the vocabulary in the Hindi films. He wrote his first ghazal ‘itna to kisi ki zindagi me khalal pade’ at the age of 13 and was also invited to the mushaira for the same.Īzmi was a writer, lyricist as well as an actor in the films.

Kaifi Azmi was responsible for introducing Urdu literature into Hindi Movies. Today, we have brought you 7 Evergreen Ghazals Of The Hindi Cinema, that will make you fall in love this beautiful genre. The singers in the 1940s, 50s and 60s rendered their voices and produced soothing, heart-wrenching ghazals for us to cherish forever. Shakeel Badayuni, Naushad Ali, Dilip Kumar and Mohammed Rafi are responsible for some of the evergreen ghazals Hindi movies ever produced. From Persian, it travelled to Urdu language and now it is the most loved, used and important genre of Urdu language.Įarlier only literature lovers used to recite them or listen to them in mushairas but as Hindi cinema progressed, it gave voice to some of the best ghazals ever written in Urdu, making the ghazal reach the masses and because of this, even the non-literature lovers are in love of ghazals. In fact, multiple themes are used in a single ghazal as well.

Earlier ghazal only had themes of love but as Persian started using it, Persian writers brought several changes into it and now all sort of themes can be included in a ghazal. In Arabic, ghazal basically means love poems. The word ghazal means talking to women or of women. Ah! ghazal, the philosopher’s word, the wailing of a dejected lover, the song of the young blooming passion, the companion of the old, Urdu ghazal has a lot to offer for the soul on a quest.
