Theme/Title Song of Lucknow Doordarshan Kendra Drama Series "Khwaab Rau" by Anwar Nadeem

 

अनवर नदीम (1937-2017) का एक गीत जिसे मुहम्मद रफ़ी (1924-80) ने गाया

 

चाहूँ भी तो सोच न पाऊं मेरा मन क्या सोच रहा है

ऐसे में क्या तुम को बताऊँ मेरा मन क्या सोच रहा है 

अपने मन का राही होकर, अपने मन से हार गया हूँ

किस की ख़ातिर इतनी जल्दी अपनी हदों के पार गया हूँ 

चाहूँ भी तो सोच न पाऊं मेरा मन क्या सोच रहा है

ऐसे में क्या तुम को बताऊँ मेरा मन क्या सोच रहा है 

गीत हमारे गाती जाए दर्द की टोली रस्ते-रस्ते

कितनी सदियां बीत गयी हैं अपनी गाथा रचते-रचते 

चाहूँ भी तो सोच न पाऊं मेरा मन क्या सोच रहा है

ऐसे में क्या तुम को बताऊँ मेरा मन क्या सोच रहा है

 

"In 1971 he (Anwar Nadeem) met Satyanand Rao, who hailed from a village in Andhra Pradesh and wanted to make a film that was set in Lucknow. Nadeem’s Kirchein, about a woman who tries to bring her sister out of the kotha-tawaif (courtesan) world by marrying her off to her own lover, caught Rai’s fancy. Three songs were recorded in Bombay (now Mumbai), among them, a rare Muhammad Rafi gem: ‘Chaahoon bhi to soch na paaoon mera mann kya soch raha hai. However much I try, I can never tell what my heart is feeling.’ A unit came down to Lucknow from Bombay for the shoot. But things got stalled even before they could start in earnest. A production of Mehfil Films, launched by Nawab Jafar Mir Abdullah in the ’80s, Kirchein never saw the light of day for lack of finances – or so the nawab claims."

Namrata Joshi, Reel India: Cinema off the Beaten Track (Gurugram: Hachette India, 2019)

 

Tributes to Anwar Nadeem (1937-2017) by Malikzada Javed & Parvez Malikzada

 Late Anwar Nadeem (1937-2017)

Please click here to watch eminent Urdu poet Mr. Malikzada Javed remember the late Anwar Nadeem (1937-2017). 

Please click here to watch eminent Urdu literary commentator and public intellectual Mr. Parvez Malikzada remember the late Anwar Nadeem (1937-2017). He serves Amiruddaula Islamia College as the Head of its department of History. Mr. Malikzada is also one of the editors of the two-decade-old prestigious Urdu literary journal Imkan, founded by his late father, the world famous Urdu poet, scholar, and mushaira compere Professor Malikzada Manzoor Ahmad. He also administers one of the largest Urdu literary groups on Facebook, Bazm-e-Imkan. He is well known for his eloquence, articulateness, and the lucidity of his language, with an encyclopaedic knowledge of Urdu literary history and culture, specifically that of Lucknow. His tribute can be read here.