Amir Khusro, the 13th century musician, poet and Sufi saint, whose father was a Persian and mother an Indian, couldn’t have imagined that qawwali, a genre in music believed to have been innovated by ...
Devotees pray ahead of the Ganesh festival in Mumbai. Photo: Rafiq Maqbool/AP In the hybrid world of Indian film music, unpredictable and unusual concoctions abound and thrive. A film song that begins ...
Aditya Dhar's Dhurandhar is breaking the records in the box office and so are the film's tracks. The movie's song Ishq Jalakar - Karvaan has become an overnight sensation, with the track's original ...
Ranveer Singh's 'Dhurandhar' features a song that echoes the iconic qawwali from 1960's 'Barsat Ki Raat'. This film qawwali, composed by Roshan, was itself inspired by an earlier composition by Ustad ...
The qawwali, a musical genre closely associated with Islamic Sufi tradition, has evolved over the generations to include not just devotion, but romance, comedy and even social commentary in its fold.