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	     Khurshid Anwar - Music Director of Parwaana
			  A Brief Life Story
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He started his career as the Producer-in-charge of the music division
of the All India Radio. His first film was the Panjabi film "Kudmai"
released in 1941. Actors in this film were Jagdish Sethi, Waasti,
Jeewan, Radharani, Ram Avatar etc.  His first Hindi film was "Ishara"
(1943), lyrics by D. N.  Madhok. Popular songs from this movie are

	Panghat pe muraliya baje - Surayya
	Shabnam kyon neer bahaye - Gauhar Sultana
	Dil deke dagha nahin dena - Vatsala Kumathekar

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Some of his other Hindi films are

Parakh 		- 1944 	(with Saraswati Devi)
Yateem 		- 1945 	(with K. Dutta)
Aaj Aur Kal 	- 1947
Pagdandi 	- 1947

Parwaana 	- 1947

	which was the last movie in which K. L. Saigal acted, as a
	married man who falls in love with Surayya, the other woman.
	Baby Khursheed, later known as Shyama had a small role as
	sister. The movie is available from Atlantic Video, Dallas.
	One song has been cut from the movie: it is "Sayyan ne ungali
	marori re" by Rajkumari.

Singaar 	- 1949

	He got a "Best Music Director" award, my sources are silent on
	from whom. Four songs can still be heard:

	Dil aane ke dhang nirale hain - Surinder Kaur
	Chanda re mein teri gawahi - Surinder Kaur
	Naya nainon mein rang - Surayya
	Wo din kidhar gaye - Surayya

Nishaana 	- 1950 

	had songs by Geeta Roy (Dutt) and Shamshad

Neelampari 	- 1952 

	had the popular

	Jab tak chamken chand sitare - Geeta and G. M. Durrani
	Raat chandani kare ishare - Geeta

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After partition, he went to Pakistan like many other good people we
know. Some of his Pakistani movies are

	Ghoongat 
	Chingari
	Koyal
	Shauhar
	Heer Ranjha
	Intezar, 
		which had the popular Noor Jahan numbers

		Jis din se piya dil le gaye (Qateel Shifai)
		Ghazab kiya tere wade pe (Daag Dehalawi ?)

He got the awards called the "Hyderali Award" and the "Pride of
Performance Award" from the Pakistani government in 1979.

Died on October 30, 1984 at Lahore, age 70.

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Some excerpts from Vish Krishnan's article on Noorjehan:-

Another master classicist was Khurshid Anwar, who  did  very  few
pre-Partition  movies  for Bombay cinema (notable are NISHANA, an
Ashok Kumar-Madhubala-Geeta Bali starrer of  1950,  and  SINGAAR,
and 1949 musical treat starring Madhubala and Suraiyya). From the
'50s, I recall 3 Noor Jehan songs by Khurshid Anwar, and they are
all  cast  in  a  classical mould. The Miyan Ki Todi rendition of
"Jis Din Se Piya Dil Le Gaye, Dukh  De  Gaye"  perhaps  does  not
match  up to our standards of virus-free and domesticated classi-
cal singing,  but  it  has  its  place.    And  to  top  it,  the
Jaijaiwanti song "Dil Ka Diya Jalaaya Toone"  is a must-have. And
then in a style that almost completely describes  the  latter-day
Noor Jehan, she sings Khurshid Anwar's wonderful Tilak Shyam com-
position

             Saagar Roye, Leheren Shor Machaayen,
                   Yaad Piya Ki Aaye, Naina Bhar Aaye

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