{"id":4636,"date":"2019-01-01T00:28:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T18:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/?p=4636"},"modified":"2019-01-01T07:02:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T01:32:32","slug":"shakeel-naushad-classy-confluence-seamless-flow-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/shakeel-naushad-classy-confluence-seamless-flow-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakeel-Naushad: Classy Confluence, Seamless Flow \u2013 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continued from Part 1<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n

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Teri mehfil mein kismet<\/em><\/strong> (Mughal-e-Azam<\/em>)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Shakeel-Naushad togetherness reached its pinnacle in Mughal-e-Azam<\/em> of 1960. Every composition in this film is masterly \u2013 one better than the other. Yet if I must indicate the first amongst the equals, it will have to be Teri mehfil mein kismet aazama kar hum bhi dekhenge<\/em>.<\/p>\n

There are reasons. First, it challenged that peerless all-women qawwali<\/em> of Zeenat<\/em> of the year 1945. I do not know if it surpassed Aahen na bhari <\/em>but it surely equaled it.<\/p>\n

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The other side in Teri mehfil mein kismet aazmakar<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Second, unlike the Zeenat<\/em> qawwali,<\/em> which has all the singers on the same page, complementing each other, Teri mehfil mein kismet<\/em> has two distinctly demarcated sides and the exchanges are not friendly banters but are palpably adversarial.<\/p>\n

Third, the on screen execution of the qawwali<\/em> is brilliant as the one who is to judge the winner \u2013 prince Salim \u2013 is also expected to be the winner\u2019s trophy!<\/p>\n

Fourth, its Lata versus Shamshad, both so evenly matched. But the qawwali<\/em> breathes on the words of Shakeel and blossoms on Naushad\u2019s music. It is about love that is possessive versus love that is self-effacing; love that pulsates to the moment present versus love that survives the mortals engaged \u2013 yeh \u00a0kya kam hai ki mar jaane pe duniya yaad karti hai!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Teri mehfil mein kismet<\/strong><\/em> (Mughal-e-Azam<\/em>, 1960) Naushad \/ Shakeel Badayuni \/ Lata Mangeshkar and Shamshad Begum<\/span><\/p>\n