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00:00 How beautiful name you have given.
00:02 And think,
00:03 From 1911 to 2023.
00:04 From 1911 to 2023,
00:06 that means,
00:07 songs before the establishment of Pakistan
00:09 and songs till now.
00:10 So let's get to know them.
00:11 Archivist Apsar Ahmed is with us.
00:13 Thank you very much.
00:14 And your book is very fascinating to me.
00:16 And you told me during the break
00:18 that Pakistan is the first country
00:20 which has kept a record of its own songs.
00:24 It has made an archive.
00:25 So tell us what is it?
00:27 And how many songs are there?
00:29 First of all, I would like to say to all the viewers,
00:31 Assalam-o-Alaikum.
00:32 Happy Pakistan Day.
00:34 I always say that India is liberated,
00:36 we are created.
00:37 Because before that,
00:39 Pakistan was not on the map.
00:41 So, Alhamdulillah,
00:42 this passion of the songs,
00:44 this passion,
00:45 I had carried it since the age of 8.
00:47 Today,
00:48 I am thankful to Allah.
00:50 How did it work?
00:51 At the age of 8,
00:52 I used to have an audio cassette.
00:53 It was a passion.
00:54 So,
00:55 25 years have passed,
00:57 I am 80 years old.
00:59 So,
01:00 this has been my passion since childhood.
01:01 So, 4,500 national songs,
01:02 that is a lot.
01:03 4,500 are the ones I have.
01:05 It is possible that
01:06 there are 4,500,
01:07 600,
01:08 or more.
01:09 That is why I say carefully
01:10 that 5,000 national songs
01:11 should be made in Pakistan.
01:12 Which is the first national song?
01:13 The first national song.
01:14 If we use the term national song,
01:16 like in Pakistan,
01:17 there are national songs all over the world,
01:19 patriotic songs,
01:20 national songs.
01:21 We have a term,
01:23 national song.
01:24 Because Pakistan has a relationship
01:25 with a view.
01:26 Relation.
01:27 Relation.
01:28 So, that is why we call it
01:29 national song.
01:30 So,
01:31 in 1911,
01:32 Allama Muhammad Iqbal's poem,
01:34 which is also in Urdu literature,
01:36 is called national song.
01:38 The term,
01:39 which is the first time
01:40 that it is called national song,
01:41 Allama Muhammad Iqbal used it.
01:44 And what he said was good,
01:45 for Muslims,
01:46 that China,
01:47 China and now India,
01:48 we are Muslims.
01:49 We are the country.
01:50 Our whole world,
01:51 Iqbal's song,
01:52 is like a flute.
01:53 It is played more.
01:55 Then,
01:56 "Kar Wa Hamara".
01:57 So, this song,
01:58 was composed by Ustad Pyare Sahib,
02:00 who was from East Bengal,
02:01 because East Bengal was at that time.
02:03 So, he was an artist.
02:05 He composed it himself and sang it.
02:07 And his master's wiseness
02:09 took out his gramophone disc,
02:11 which was accepted as soon as it came.
02:13 After that,
02:14 a series of songs started,
02:15 to include Iqbal's poem
02:16 in national songs.
02:17 Because Iqbal's poem
02:19 is a national poem,
02:21 and a national song.
02:22 So, obviously,
02:23 when he puts it in a song,
02:24 it becomes a national anthem.
02:25 "Millat Ka Bansbaa Hai,
02:26 Muhammad Ali Jinnah"
02:27 was also written before the end of Pakistan.
02:29 Yes, yes,
02:30 in 1940,
02:31 when our independence was presented,
02:34 on that day,
02:35 Mian Bashir Ahmed,
02:37 who is known as the poet of the great leader,
02:39 he wrote it.
02:41 And at that time,
02:42 Anwar Ghazi Abadi read it,
02:44 but along with that,
02:45 from the platform of All India Muslim League,
02:47 his gramophone disc was released,
02:48 which was given to Munawwar Sultana,
02:50 who is the first singer
02:51 of the Pakistani film industry.
02:52 He sang this song
02:54 with Shamshad Kausar
02:55 and Ali Baksh Zahoor
02:56 in the music of Master Inayat Hussain.
02:58 So, there were many such songs.
03:01 "Kya Hi Pakizao,
03:02 Tahir Naam Pakistan Hai"
03:03 was sung by Ijaz Ali.
03:05 Then, apart from this,
03:06 from East Pakistan,
03:07 which was East Bengal at that time,
03:09 the artists there were
03:10 Abbas Uddin Ahmed.
03:12 He sang the song,
03:13 "Zameen Firdaus"
03:14 "Pakistan Ki Hogi Zamane Mein"
03:16 "Khulamaan-e-Nabi Masroofaun"
03:18 "Jannat Basane Mein"
03:19 This was released on 7th June 1947.
03:21 Qaid-e-Azam, may Allah have mercy on him,
03:23 in the 3rd June plan,
03:24 in which Pakistan Zindabad
03:25 had put a slogan for the first time,
03:27 so, Abbas Uddin Ahmed
03:28 had also started this song
03:30 with the slogan of Pakistan Zindabad.
03:32 Okay, two songs were related to this.
03:35 One was "Zameen Ki Godh Rang Se Umang Se Bharee Rahe"
03:37 One was about this.
03:38 The other was "Ae Mere Pyare Vatan"
03:40 "Ae Mere Pyare Vatan"
03:41 So, it is a kind of...
03:42 His poetry is speechless.
03:44 Yes, yes, absolutely.
03:45 "Zameen Ki Godh Rang Se Umang Se Bharee Rahe"
03:47 was written by Asad Muhammad Khan.
03:49 Sohail Rana had composed the music.
03:51 Muhammad Ibrahim Sahib
03:53 had recorded this poem on Pakistan Television
03:56 on 23rd March 1979 at Karachi Markas.
03:59 So, this is a prayer.
04:01 Similarly, you have composed "Ae Vatan Pyare Vatan"
04:03 by Professor Karam Haidri,
04:05 who was an intellectual,
04:08 he had written this poem
04:10 before the war of 1971.
04:12 Akhtar Hussain Akhiyan had composed it.
04:14 Ustad Amanat Ali Khan Sahib
04:16 had sung it and made it a masterpiece.
04:18 So, all these were found.
04:19 Tell me one thing.
04:21 Now, we live in a very advanced era.
04:23 We have YouTube, social platforms,
04:25 we can search for national songs,
04:28 we can search on and on.
04:31 But, how did these songs reach people at that time?
04:36 Because, I had asked you about gramophone.
04:38 You said that it was an elite hobby.
04:39 It was very expensive.
04:41 Common masters could not afford it.
04:42 So, how did it reach them?
04:43 Gramophone did not require electricity.
04:47 You gave it a key and it would work.
04:50 So, what people did in many places,
04:52 they would take their hobby and put it in the neighborhood.
04:55 And it had a big bhopu.
04:57 If you have seen,
04:58 we use it for props on sets.
05:01 So, they would put it.
05:03 Or, artists would come to the streets.
05:05 They would come to the streets to sing.
05:07 And I was telling you about Abbas Uddin Ahmed Sahib.
05:09 So, when he sang this poem on Dhaka Radio,
05:13 it was banned.
05:14 Because Pakistan had not been established yet.
05:16 What happened was that they did not stop.
05:20 People said that two months are left.
05:22 Pakistan will be established.
05:23 The passion of that artist is that
05:27 he took harmonium and went to the streets.
05:30 And started singing songs.
05:32 Now, the songs that were on the radio,
05:34 not everyone had it.
05:35 Now, that message is reaching every street.
05:38 Without fear of danger.
05:39 Without fear of danger.
05:40 Now, you see, Sadaf,
05:42 that song is in Urdu.
05:45 Whereas, that area is in Bengali.
05:48 People say that there was no Taj-Lisani, Taj-Tas.
05:51 When Pakistan was established,
05:52 everyone had the same passion.
05:53 Everyone had the same passion.
05:54 So, when he sang,
05:56 then on 14th August, 15th August,
05:58 when Pakistan was established,
05:59 when Pakistan Radio was banned,
06:02 he sang that song again.
06:05 And this was the first song,
06:06 which was officially,
06:08 when the gramophone record came,
06:09 its advertisement was also made a decoration of newspapers.
06:12 And then, when the award was announced in Pakistan,
06:15 then on this occasion,
06:16 he was given the award of Pride of Performance.
06:18 Great!
06:19 Thank you so much for being with us.