22 September 2023

Ghazals in movies

This evening as I was browsing my TV Channels, I bumped across DD National Channel telecasting it's 'Chitrahaar' featuring songs from Hindi movies. There was a song from the popular movie 'Umraao John' that was released in 1980s (if I remember it well). 

The movie included very versatile actors such as Nazirudeen Shaw, ever beautiful Rekha etc. As far as I experienced, all songs in the movie were very melodious. The songs in the ghazal type of music from this movie were my favourites for many years.

I first listenined to this song in 1990 when viewing TV in the house of Mr Agarwal, a fellow teacher working in Southern Africa.

That was a time period when I was addicted to western soft rock followed by ghazals, like most youngsters.






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I am a retired K-12 Education Management Professional. I have worked at different levels in K-12 school systems, textbook publishing, elearning and Education NGOs. I have held memberships in The Association for Science Education (UK), American Association of Physics Teachers and The Malaysian Institute of Physics. I hold a 1st class B Sc Degree in Physics followed by B Ed [English and Physical Science] and M A [Childcare and Education] degrees. My published works include 59 articles in teacher development magazines in India and the US and a book entitled `Creative Classrooms and Child Friendly Schools' (listed in Amazon). This book is almost an anecdotal account of my professional experience in six countries (including Cambodia where I worked as Technical Adviser to the Ministry of Education, Youth And Sports). I served as mentor in the Certificate of Teaching Mastery Program offered by Teachers Without Borders.