Old Bollywood was our nursery for Urdu. Where else could you get Tamaam gawaahon ke bayanat and memberaan-e-jury ki sifaarish ke maddenazar? There were always fasadat, khayalat in our films. In between there were some exceptions like Khayalon mein kisi ke is tarah aaya nahin karte. But soon it was back to Ye meri khwahish […]
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YearlyArchive
- N Venkataraman on ‘Afsana’, ‘Dastan’, ‘Kahani’ and ‘Fasana’ in songsAkji, Listened to the songs. That is a nice set of songs you've posted! Rafi's 'Unhein Kissa-e-Gham' (#13) really stands...
- Mahesh Joshi on ‘Afsana’, ‘Dastan’, ‘Kahani’ and ‘Fasana’ in songsAKji Good to see the fertile mind is still able to come up with interesting and unusual topics :-) Let...
- N Venkataraman on ‘Afsana’, ‘Dastan’, ‘Kahani’ and ‘Fasana’ in songsAkji, As an outsider to the language, I found it a useful Urdu crash-course session. Given that participation is restricted...
- Dustedoff on ‘Afsana’, ‘Dastan’, ‘Kahani’ and ‘Fasana’ in songsWonderful list, AK (and one of my favourite dastangos, by the way, is a woman - Fauzia Dastango, who is...
- AK on OP Nayyar unlike OP NayyarSwar, You are posing an interesting question. I would venture two answers: (i) OPN invested too much in Asha Bhosle,...
- Swar on OP Nayyar unlike OP NayyarI read the paragraph about OPN’s break-up with Asha Bhosle and the idea that he could have approached Lata Mangeshkar...
- Mahesh Joshi on Open HouseVenkataramanji Very pleased to hear you are fine and well. :-) Once again thank you very much for the transcription...
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