Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Trivial Pursuit 35

Here's a hauntingly beautiful Urdu poem, magically sung and wonderfully penned under the pseudonym 'Naaz'. How is the lady better known as ?

10 comments:

  1. any hint ? Vishal Jaiswal

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  2. Mahjabeen Bano was born to a Muslim father, Ali Baksh, and a Hindu mother, Prabhavati Tagore.

    She was born on 1st August, 1932, in Dr. Gadre's Clinic in Bombay. At the time of her birth, her parents were unable to pay the fees of Dr. Gadre, who had delivered her. Having hit upon hard times, her father left her at a Muslim orphanage, however, he picked her up after a few hours.

    Her father Ali Baksh, a veteran of Parsi theatre, played small roles in films like 'Id Ka Chand' and composed music for films like 'Shahi Lutera'.

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  3. Mahjabeen Bano wrote poetry under the pseudonym 'Naaz'. She is however, more famous in another field, and is known by another name..

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  4. The answer is Meena Kumari.

    Born Mahjabeen Bano, she was an Indian Movie Actor and Poet; who used to write under the pseudonym 'Naaz'.

    "I write, I recite", with Music by Khayyam, is the only recorded Album of the Actor wherein she recites her selected Poems.

    The Album as an LP was released by EMI in 1981, and was re-released as a CD in 2001 by Music India.

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  5. Additional Trivia :

    Most of Meena Kumari's writings, after her demise in 1972, were passed on to Gulzar, who was instrumental in publishing her Poems.

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  6. Lyrics :

    Chand tanha hai aasmaan tanha
    Dil mila hai kahan kahan tanha
    Chand tanha hai..

    Bujh gayi aas, chhup gaya tara
    Thar-tharaata raha dhuan tanha
    Chand tanha hai..

    Zindagi kya isi ko kehte hain
    Jism tanha hai aur jaan tanha
    Chand tanha hai..

    Humsafar koi, gar mile bhi kahin
    Dono chalte rahein tanha tanha
    Chand tanha hai..

    Jalti bujhti si roshni ke pare
    Simta simta sa ek makaan tanha

    Raah dekha karega sadiyon tak
    Chhod jayenge yeh jahaan tanha
    Chhod jayenge yeh jahaan tanha..

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  7. "Tum kya karoge sunkar mujhse meri kahani
    Belutf zindagi ke kisse hain pheeke pheeke"

    - Meena Kumari

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  8. Ghamon ka bojh badhkar
    Jab had se siva ho gaya
    Meri zindagi ka sabab
    Tabse maikada ho gaya..

    - Meena Kumari

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  9. good one ....tinu

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