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Naheed Akhtar - Punjabi Folk Song Live Ptv

Kalam: Hazrat Khawja Ghulam Farid (RA)

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About Nahid Akhtar,

Naheed Akhtar (Nahid Akhtar) was born in Gujrat Punjab Pakistan was the most famous singer in Pakistan after Noor Jehan between 1974 and 2000.

Naheed Akhtar was discovered by veteran musician M. Ashraf as a teenage sensation in the mid-1970s. She became a threat to Noor Jehan and for a while she dominated Urdu film music. Naheed Akhtar was a successful replacement for Runa Laila, who left Pakistan the same year. Her debut film was "Nanha Farishta" in 1974 and that year she climbed to the top with super hit songs in the film "Shama". Journalist Asif Ali Pota married her in the mid-1980s, when she left the film scene.

Naheed Akhtar had talent for singing from her chilhood. Nahid Akhtar remained an unavoidable part of the titles of almost all Pakistani films between the mid-70's to the late 80's. In so many ways, she was the female counterpart of Ahmed Rushdie, even though coming a generation later.

Nahid suddenly found her place as one of the most versatile singers around mid-70's when it turned out that she has got an unusually expressive voice that can be suited to so many diverse situations - creating the gloomiest melancholy with her television ghazal Tum say ulfat kay taqazay or Sawan kay din aye (Naag Aur Nagin), boosting the spirits up with such peppy songs as Dil tore kay mut jayyio (Waqt) or Piyar Kabhie karna na kum (Aashie), establishing a touch with spirituality with the devotional Allah hi Allah kya karo (Pehchan) and even getting herself established as the raunchiest and lewdest female voice of the time if need be: Yeh aaj mujkpo kiya hua (Naukar), Dil sanbhala na jaye (Mera Naam Hai Mohabbat), etc. Indeed there was no way escaping her in those good old days of the late 70's.

Nahid's voice became for Babra Sharif what Ahmed Rushdie's voice had been for Waheed Murad. Indeed, they retained a kind of symbiotic existence on the screen throughout the following decade. With the decline of the film industry early 80's onwards Nahid had more time for television and did such memorable programmes as Sur Bahar, which gave her opportunity to display her talent in a more classical style (that particular programme was based on the music of Ameer Khusro).

She has now retired from singing and lives her life completely off the screen. What a pity. Nahid Akhtar was perhaps the last audio legend of our film industry - the heydays were already over when she left and people had stopped remembering the names of the best film singers.

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  • This is pure Saraiki song...Kalam of khawaja Farid sb... Don't say it Punjabi song.....Saraiki Language is totally different from Punjabi....anyone speaks punjabi can not speak saraiki.

  • @TheSpeaktruth

    don't be a un polite ignorant troll!! I'm Punjabi who speak and understand Saraikai

    where are your manors ? you just barge in commenting like i owe you something no one teach you to thank those who makes effort to bring some nice to you ?

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  • Very nice upload thanks for sharing

  • Beautiful Naheed with her Unique Voice. Thanks for sharing Asif Ji. Take care...

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  • @TheSpeaktruth

    Why does it matter? Saraiki is a dialect of Punjabi, according to all educated linguists.

  • @Asif410

    where I showed myself as an un polite???....I just want to ask you,why you gave this song a wrong title??? Information to the audience should be correct. I am not against Punjabi language, but we should accept the differences b/w the both languages.

    If you understand Saraiki then it doesn't mean that both are the same languages.

    Don't be aggressive.... no doubt song is nice and this is asset for us. Correct the title with open mind.

  • Beautiful Song - Imran

  • Very nice :)

  • I agree with Nejibound. But N. Akhtar and Zubaida, Tahira syad, Reshma and many others have their own claim to good Punjabi singing. Im a Sikh but always enjoy Paki Pbi songs as I feel they are more close to Pbi culture and life. Pbi singers in India are just money minded commercial and most of them are vulger. There are few exceptions as Gurdas Mann, Hans etc.

  • Khwaja sahib da kalam... Masha'allah

    Great sharing bhaa:)

  • waw,,zabardast asif bhai maza aa geya. thank you

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