![]() It also became a stark reminder of the fact that with his passing, the world of ghazal and Urdu poetry has lost more lifeblood than it can afford to, and “the last of the real Urdu heavyweights”. His passing on Monday, February 8, on his close friend Jagjit Singh’s birth anniversary, due to a cardiac arrest at his Mumbai residence, put his own poetry into perspective, telling us of the fickleness of life. The raag was Bihag, and the nation listened, rocking gently in its languor, one of Muqtida Hasan Nida Fazli’s most famous works. ![]() This was reality of existence and its crisis in verse, without the beautiful wrapping paper,” Singh recalls.Īlso read: Industry greats remember late Nida Fazli “The poet seemed to have poured far too much heart and reality into it. ![]() When playback singers Asha Bhosle and Bhupinder Singh sat down in a Mumbai studio to rehearse this piece of poetry, set to tune by composer Khayyam for the film Ahista Ahista (1981), the observation and foreboding in it moved them in a way the two hadn’t anticipated. ![]()
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