REMEMBERING QAMAR JALALABADI -------------------------------------------------- Born as Om Prakash Bhandari (1919 – 9 January 2003),in a Punjabi family in 1917 in the Jalalabad town near Amritsar, right from the age of seven he starting writing poetry in Urdu. A wandering minstrel poet named Amar met him in his hometown and encouraged him to write, recognising his immense talent and potential. He also gave him the penname of Qamar which means moon, and Jalalabadi was added for his native town.Qamar Jalalabadi came to Pune in the early 1940s. In 1942, he wrote lyrics for his first film Zamindar.Subsequently, Jalalabadi relocated to Bombay, and worked there as a lyricist for nearly 4 decades. His songs were sung by many notable singers including Noor Jehan, G. M. Durrani, Zeenat Begum, Manju, Amirbai Karnataki, Mohammad Rafi, Talat Mahmood, Geeta Roy, Suraiya, Mukesh, Manna Dey, Asha Bhonsle, Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar. He worked with many popular composers including Sachin Dev Burman and Sardar Malik. The film Howrah Bridge (1954) skyrocketed his career as lyricist to unpredescented heights. Songs like Mera Naam Chin Chin Chu (Geeta Dutt) and aaiye meherbaan, baithiye janejaan…. (Asha Bhonsle) became highly popular. A highly religious person, he chanted excerpts from the Bhagavad Gita, the Koran as well as Bible....Enjoy this famous song penned by him for the movie HOWRAH BRIDGE, sung beautifully by Asha ji for Madhubala on the melodious tunes of OP Nayyar....A humble tribute to QJ... https://youtube/watch?v=HZBdm-G3VpI
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 07:52:21 +0000
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