Posts Tagged ‘Bahadur Shah Zafar’
Gayee yak bayak jo hawa palat
Posted on: November 13, 2025
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Mukesh and his NFS – 13
More than a decade back, 27 August 2015, to be precise, I had a written a special post on the Remembrance Day of Mukesh.
It was special in the sense that it dealt with the composing career of Mukesh in my series Mukesh and his Composers.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This film “Laal Quila” (1960) would have been forgotten but for the two immortal ghazals composed by S. N. Tripathi, and sung by Mohammed Rafi. These ghazal’s ‘lagtaa nahin hai dil meraa ujde dayaar mein’ and ‘na kisi ki aankh ka noor hoon na kisi ke dil ka qaraar hoon ‘ have a place in the hearts of urdu poetry readers be they lay person or scholors.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Among the Mughal emperors, Bahadur Shah Zafar (24/10/1775 – 7/11/1862) evoked my sympathy whenever I used to read the chapters on Mughal Empire in the history book during my school days. One rarely comes across such a moving tale of a reluctant emperor at a time when Mughal empire had almost crumbled. It is an irony of fate that the last emperor of Muhgal dynasty who had ruled India for over 300 years had to spend the last few years of his life in exile in Rangoon (Yongon) in Burma (Myanmar) and died unsung in anonymity.
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