Hyderabad: Hyderabad was founded in the power of prayer and the city survived many natural crises in the last two centuries about the power of prayer, or so was the trust.
And it is a prayer that is the singer of Mangeshkar Lata bond playback with Hyderabad and Hyderabadi culture from Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb – directly and let life.
Lata may have visited Hyderabad just twice in the last 60 years but he was overwhelmed by Charmminar’s charm and bangle bangle that was busy from Lad Bazar.
Three different prayers in three different languages - Deccani, Urdu and Hindi holding the city together and Lata is a link of two of them.
While the famous prayer by Mohammad Quli Qutub Shah in Deccani during the laying of the Hyderabad Foundation in 1591 was answered by the Almighty in the expansion of the city, prayer in the early 1800s by Laqa Chanda, the first woman poet in Urdu, has given the city forces to fight disease and disaster.
The third prayer, Allah Tero Naam, Eshwar to Naam, a reflection song that filed the Look of the Almighty of the Almighty with various names, was the first song given by Lata when he last visited Hyderabad on March 9, 2002, his second visit to the city in 40 years after 1962.
This song was translated at the NTR Stadium from Hum Dono (1961), it has surplied the culture of love and tolerance Hyderabadi.
Also, it was Lata, who uphold the Maha Laqa Chanda tradition to sing prayer songs without holding musical instruments.
The song by Laiqa Chanda was written around 220 years ago, which has been given Lata in Sohni Mahiwal (1958), has become a favorite prayer of the rulers and Hyderabadi at the time of a pandemic, epidemic, and disaster.
Interestingly, it is the only Bollywood song translated without music.
There is only a drum knock at the end of each verse in the song.
Lata song, aye mere malik, mere parwidigar, aaj tu sunle meri dil ki pukar, from Sohni Mahywal given 64 years ago still a popular song for many hyderabadi in the crisis.
The song was taken from Chanda’s anthology, Gulzar-e-mah laqa.
Despite many Chanda poems missing, this prayer song survived because it was reduced from generation to generation.
Chanda is known to use various musical instruments, but for this song, he limits music to just beat the drum at the end of each verse.
Lata has carefully followed the tradition in respect for the great presentation of Hyderabad Yore.
Lata link to Hyderabad also extends to Tollywood.
He sang at least five songs in Telugu.
They are the Thammudu Nidarapora for Sanhanam (1955), Tella Chiraku for Akhiri Poratam (1988) and Mogutunnayi Gaajulu, Nagaralarala Tal Nagaramidi and Nenu Nenu Forsreedevi (1989).
The last time Lata spoke Hyderabadi was 20 years ago.
He not only remembered his relationship with Hyderabad and Lad Bazaar famous for Bangles, but also told the city audience how his father bought a silver coin necklace with Charminar engraved to them.
All through his charity show for hospitals to remember his father in Mumbai, he has emphasized the importance of religious tolerance and communal harmony, where the famous Hyderabad stands.
Prayer, Charminar & Bangles: Bonds that tie Lata to HYD
