Ghazals by mehdi hassan4/1/2024 It so happened, the next time I heard Mehdi Hassan was after I had arrived in Washington as a student in the 1970s. So far the only ghazals I had heard were all sung by Begum Akhtar such as Aye muhabbat tere anjam pe rona aya. But soon I found one and we were enthralled to find out that it was a recording of an upcoming Pakistani ghazal singer Mehdi Hassan who was singing his famous ghazal, Gulon mein rang bhare. But the problem was I, being just a student, did not have a reel-to-reel tape recorder. Knowing our taste for ghazals, I completely believed him. He insisted that he has never heard such a voice, such meticulous pronunciation of Urdu and such articulation of the words, especially while singing ghazals by famous Urdu poets. ![]() The first I heard about Mehdi Hassan, whom now I call an amazing "ghazal traash" (sculptor of ghazals), was in 1966 when a friend of mine brought me a reel-to-reel tape of a Pakistani Radio recording of something he said would spellbind me.
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