Nasir Kazmi

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Re: Nasir Kazmi

Some posts on Nasir Kazmi from a thread discussing poetry that was used in Pakistani movies and dramas

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Nasir Kazmi was famous for his beautiful ghazals in ‘chhoti behr’. His ghazals like ‘Dil dharakne ke sabab yaad aya’, ‘Phir Sawan rut ki pawan chali’ , ‘Dil main ek lehr si uthi hai abhi’, 'and ‘Nae Kapde Badal kar jaon kahan’ became hit through PTV music programs. I used to thought that famous ghazal ‘Jab se Tune mujhe deewana bana rakha hai’ sung by Abida Parveen is the kalam of Nasir Kazmi, but its written by Hakeem Nasir.

The only kalam of Nasir Kazmi that I remember was used in Drama and movies are:

(1) Gaye Dino a suragh le kar kidhar se aya kidhar gaya wo, in PTV serial ‘Manoos Ajnabi’. The version used in drama is not available online, however, its sung by many singers including Ghulam Ali, Asha Bhosle, Parvez Mehdi, Habib Wali Muhammad, but I like the version sung by Masood & Sheelo Khan.

(2) Gham hai ya khushi hai tu originally sung by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was used in Indian movie ‘Kartoos’ in the voice of Alka Yagnik.

(3) Ab ke baar poonam main sung by Pervez Mehdi / Asif Ali was later on used/misused in Indian movie ‘Jaanasheen’

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I forget to mention my favourite ghazal (Ga raha tha koi darakhtoN maiN) by Nasir Kazmi used in Haseena Moin’s drama Padosi (*ing: Mareena Khan & Saleem Shaikh) in voice of Ali Haider: