Mehdi Hasan: A Voice That Knew No Border!

Mehdi Hasan was born in Luna, a village in the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan in undivided India, to a family of singers who sang in the Hindustani style. By the age of eight, under the guidance of his father Ustad Azeem Khan and uncle Ustad Ismail Khan, Mehdi Hasan was already singing before the Maharaja of Baroda. Later in life as a celebrity, in an interview for Radio Pakistan, Mehdi Hasan remembered singing for the Maharaja of Gwalior at Indore. Following Partition in 1947, 19-year-old Mehdi Hasan migrated with his devastated family to Chichawatni, a village in West Punjab, which lay in Pakistan. A life of poverty had begun. He did not give up his riyaaz; he practised with great dedication, although he went to work as an automobile mechanic in a garage and eventually became the owner of such an establishment. In 1948, through his financial travails, he auditioned for Radio Pakistan as a thumri singer. He began to sing in films and very soon made his mark as a singer with a polished voice and an unbeatable technique.
His rendering of a ghazal by the great revolutionary poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Gulon Mein Rang Bhare, for the 1964 film Farangi launched him into stardom. He soon found himself ploughing a lonely furrow as there was no male light classical singer of his stature in Pakistan or India. The only other male singer in Pakistan who could keep him company was Tufail Niazi, who was classically trained in pre-Partition Kapurthala, in India, but was very successfully pursuing a career as a folk singer. The presence of a major talent like Tufail Niazi, albeit from a different genre of vocal music, perhaps made Mehdi Hasan feel less lonely musically. One, of course, must not forget his very talented composer brother, Pandit Ghulam Qadir. Mehdi Hasan did promote a then-fledgling singer called Ghulam Ali, who later rose to fame and fortune and was the pupil of the incomparable male thumri singer Ustad Barkat Ali Khan (1902-1962), the younger brother of the khayal singer, the mercurial genius, Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan (1900-1966). His love of ragas was palpable in ghazals like Qateel Shifais Zindagi Mein To Sabhi Pyar Kiya Karte Hain (Bhimpalas); Faiz Ahmad Faizs Gulon Mein Rang Bhare (Jhinjhoti); Parveen Shakirs Ku Baku Phail Gayee Baat Shanasaiyee Kee (Darbari); Ahmad Farazs Shola Tha Jal Utha Hoon (Kirwani) and Ranjish Hi Sahi (Yaman); and Sahir Hoshiarpuris Mohabbat Karne Wale... (Khamaj). The raga-based ghazal was Mehdi Hasan's forte. He died on June 13, 2012 in Karachi, Pakistan.

[@BhaiHiraSinghRattan]

Great Voice Great Ustad 🙏🙏

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Great work Thank you

[@MuhammadNaeem-ob8xf]

Mehdi Hassan King Of Melody Shehnsha e Ghazal

[@ambujk03]

Greatest Ghazal Singer ever❤️

[@vijaybhagwat7598]

Jai Mehdi Hassan Saheb❤❤❤❤

[@rajendrakothari1979]

Koti koti naman hai yeshe mahan kalakaar ko..aap hamaare dilo sadaa jindaa hai,,,

[@08kansen]

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رنجش ہی سہی سے نہیں بلکہ فیض کی غزل "گلوں میں رنگ بھرے" سے شہرت ملی جو انھوں نے 1954ء میں ریڈیو پاکستان کراچی پر ریکارڈ کروایا

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शानदार , आपके सभी वीडियो😊 लाजवाब होते हैं

[@rajendrakothari1979]

My favourite

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Thank you for starting this program again. Will wait for more such wonderful episodes.

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[@SureeleDinonKiDastan]

Sure

[@sachinsunny2940]

Very big thanks to you for this video. He is my all time most favourite singer. Although his birth is from 1927 as per all records. But he has told in his interviews that he is born from 1934 or 1935. No doubt Khan Sahab was a complete singer across all the styles of singing

[@SureeleDinonKiDastan]

Your information is entirely incorrect. I discovered after consulting several sources that Mehdi Hasan was born on July 18, 1927. He has never mentioned his year of birth-either 1934 or 1935-in any of the interviews I have heard of him. Your information comes from a phony source.

[@Mysangeeet]

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[@MuhammadNaeem-ob8xf]

Ghazal singer Ghulam Ali Khan k bare maen b bataeen.

[@SureeleDinonKiDastan]

Kisi zinda singer par hum dastan nahi sunate hain.

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[@JaswantBassan]

Death date needs to be correcting. Thanks for this details.

[@SureeleDinonKiDastan]

He died of multiple organ failure on 13 June 2012 at Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi.

[@aarvindcool]

17 मिनट में खान साहब की वीडियो बहुत कंजूसी है, असल में सुर, राग और संगीत क्या होता है, यह मेहदी हसन साहब ही समझा सके हैं

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कौन है जो नहीं है हाजत-मंद किस की हाजत रवा करे कोई