From the movie "Shaheed-E-Mohabbat" (Martyr of Love), released in 1999. The song is a paring of two of India's greatest voices, Asha Bhosle and Gurdas Maan. As most Indian films are musicals, a big portion of popular music there is film-oriented, as opposed to album-oriented music in the United States--where I live. A great song, one of my all time favorites. Asha Bholse + Gurdas Maan = T.N.T.
The pictures are of Gurdas Maan and Divya Dutta (not Asha Bhosle) and are from the film.
Asha Bhosle (born September 8, 1933) is one of the best-known and most highly-regarded Hindi playback singers in India, although she has a wider repertoire. Renowned for her voice range and often credited for her versatility, Bhosle's work includes film music, pop, ghazals, bhajans, traditional Indian classical music, folk songs, qawwalis, and Rabindra Sangeets. Bhosle's career started in 1943 and has spanned over six decades. She has done playback singing for over a thousand Bollywood movies. In addition, she has recorded a number of albums and has performed live throughout India and abroad. Apart from Hindi, she has sung in over 20 Indian and foreign languages. Having sung on over 12,000 songs, she is the most recorded persion in history.
Gurdas Maan is an Indian singer, songwriter, choreographer, and actor. Considered the father of modern Bhangra, he is one of the most notable figures in the world of Punjabi music. He was born on 4 January 1957 in Giddarbaha, Muktsar, Punjab, India. He gained national attention in India in 1980 with the song "Dil Da Mamla Hai." Since then, he has gone on to record over 27 albums and has written over 200 songs, as an international performer.
Shaheed-E-Mohabbat is a National Award winning Punjabi movie based on the true story of Boota Singh. Considered an international hit, the film was shown at a number of international film festivals, including the Vancouver International Film Festival and the International Film Festival of India. The film actually stars Gurdas Maan (the male singer on this track) in the lead role of Boota Singh.
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Boota Singh / Shaheed-E-Mohabbat
The events take place in 1947, during the time of India's partition. Boota Singh, a Sikh soldier in his thirties, returns to his village in Jalandhar from the Burma front after World War II. Now home, Boota dreams of starting a family someday. He saves all his money with the hope that he will be able to marry. For this, he needs 2,000 Rupees (which is the custom). The country is in the process of partition and in the grips of communal violence, including rioting and murder.
One day while working in his fields a beautiful young Muslim girl comes to him for help, as she is being chased by an armed mob. Boota was able to save the girl's life, but only after giving the mob his life's savings. His hopes to settle down are shattered as he has just lost his savings rescuing this Muslim girl, Zainab. With nowhere to go she stays with Boota. Locals object to the pair living together, unmarried. As Zainab is only sixteen, Boota decides to take her to a refugee camp, where she can journey to Pakistan. Boota, who is falling in love with Zainab, cannot bring himself to leave her at the camp and they soon marry and have a daughter.
An uncle of Boota was scornful of his marriage with Zainab, as their son would receive Boota land and not him (which was the case before he married). In 1952 India and Pakistan agree to relocate women left behind during partition. The uncle informs the police that there is a Muslim girl in his village and in Boota's absence police forcibly take Zainab, leaving the kid behind.
Zainab is sent to her parents' village of Barki, in Pakistan. Boota sells all his land and goes along with his child to Pakistan illegally. He is quickly arrested and brought before a judge who is quite willing to free him if his wife can corroborate his story. Under pressure from her family, Zainab denies being married to Boota. A disappointed and mournful Boota jumps with his daughter before an oncoming train. He dies, but miraculously, his daughter survives. Pakistani youth, overcome by this, hails Boota Singh as a "Shaheed-E-Mohabbat" (Martyr of Love) and erect a Memorial and a Trust in his name.
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Gaadiye Ni-Shaheed-E-Mohabbat(1999)by DivyaPreity4ever11,317 views
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