Mumbai: Jagjit Singer Kaur, who sang Dulcet ‘Tum APNA Ranjo Gham’ (Film: Shagoon, 1964), and Dekh Lo Ghost Aaj Humko Jee Bharke ‘(Bazaar, 1982), died on Sunday in his Juhu residence following ” Age-related disease “.
Kaur, who often helped her husband Khayyam, was 89.
Kaur Sang for films like ‘Shola Aur Shabnam’, ‘Kabhi Kabhie’, ‘Chambal Ki Kinas’, ‘Noorie’, ‘Thodi Si Beekafai’, ‘Razia Sultan’, “And ‘Lori’.
“There is a special melancholy in his voice,” said Muzaffar Ali filmmaker.
Kaur Sang ‘Kahe Ko Bhyahe Bides’, was written by the poet Medieval-Scholar Amir Khusro and used in Umrao Jaan (1980).
Ali had heard songs from Mirasan, a traditional singer who appeared on the occasion of joy or mourning.
At Bazaar Sagar Sarhadi, the song Dekh Lo Aaj Humko Jee Bharke, playing in the background of a girl bid farewell to her lover when she married a man who was returned to the pure.
The innate pathos in his voice made the scenery unforgettable and underlined how he was underutilized by the film industry.
Kaur began his film career in the music director Ghulam Mohammed ‘DIL-E-Nopua’ (1953), ‘Mohabbat Ki Dhun’, with Talat Mahmood and Sudha Malhotra.
Most of the songs were compiled by Khayyam, including the signature track, ‘Tum Apna Ranjo Gham.’ However, writing articles for the book, Khayyam: Male, Music, edited by Vishwas Nerurkar and Bishwanath Chatterjee, Kaur revealed he recorded the number only because the scheduled singer did not appear.
“Sahhir Ludhianvi asked Khayyam Saab to finish it in my voice …
Sahhir-ji hasn’t written a full lyrics …
When I arrived at the studio he wrote the lyrics of Stanza, ‘Main Dekhoon to Sahee Duniya Tumhe Kaise Kaise Satati …
the song is good- Okay in four times, “he wrote.
In the article he spelled his name as, “Jagjeet” and several film loans, Shagoon for example, spell him in the same way.
Kaur was born on November 1, 1931, in Kangmai, a village close to Hoshiarpur in Punjab.
He is the daughter of a principal tend to music that encourages him to sing.
He sang regularly at Lahore radio station (before partition) and for Jalandhar and Delhi station afterwards.
He remembered asking to appear at the show to attend a few minutes later Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
His first song, ‘Jogee Uthar Pahadon Aaya’, has a “surprising” effect on Nehru.
“He said to the organizer:” I like his voice.
Please arrange for him to sing all the songs before other people come.
“Because of this request, the committee was thrown into a busyness.
Then I sang all my songs in a row.
Panditji thus remained in his chair for one and a half hours.
The excitement I did not know the restrictions on the day and in the state of ecstasy I forgot to meet Panditji personally .
Even so I will always appreciate the golden moment in my life, “Kaur wrote.
The wedding of Inter-Faith Kaur with Khayyam is an extraordinary story.
“He seems to inspire his composition.
They complement each other,” Ali said.
In ‘Anjuman’ (1986), the couple sang an unforgettable duet, ‘Kab Yaad Mein TAATH Nahi’ (Lyrics: Faiz Ahmed Faiz).
In 2016, they founded Khayyam Jagjit Kaur KPG Charitable Trust to support beginner artists and technicians.
Khayyam died in 2019.
Their sons, Pradeep Khayyam, who acted in films such as Jaan-e-wafa and helped his father, died in 2012.
(with input from PTI)