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Khalil Ahmed — Qayamat Vol. 1 with Nighat Akbar, Mehnaz, Mehdi Hassan
from the original soundtrack to Qayamat (197?)
More great music from the East—this track is from Lollywood composer and music director Khalil Ahmed, written for the film Qayamat: A Love Triangle in Afghanistan. What a beat. I can’t find much about the film except for this bizarrely-written wikipedia entry, so I’m not positive about the title or the date.
This track from the glorious Hindustani Vinyl. Worth spending a few hours combing the archives there…
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Mehnaz — Raat ke hogae ponay do
from Black Cat (1976)
We end our day at the movies with this third and final gem from Hindustani Vinyl, a track that sounds like the illegitimate child of Lollywood and Ennio Morricone, by music director Wajahat Attre. Not sure who sings this but it may be the usual suspect, Nahid Akhtar.
There’s video of this, recorded off TV, with plenty of mustaches and cowboy hats. Proceed at your own risk.
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Runa Laila — Aankh mili aur takraya
from Tiger Gang (1971)
Today I’m going to highlight a few Pakistani movie numbers from the terrific blog Hindustani Vinyl. It’s a treasure trove of gems from 1960s and 70s Bollywood and Lollywood (Pakistan’s movie capital, Lahore), but unfortunately the blog serves as an appetizer for a German rare records vendor of the same name, and the tracks are all cut about 2/3rds through. Don’t let that deter you—some great discoveries await!
This one’s a hip number sung by Bangladeshi playback singer Runa Laila for the film Tiger Gang aka Kommissar X jagt die roten Tiger, a story of drug addicts and gangsters. It was a rare collaboration between Austrian film director Harald Reinl and Lollywood producers, but despite (or maybe because of) the subject matter, it was a box office flop (and has only scored 4.5 stars on imdb). Ouch.
Here’s a video clip of this song from the movie.
