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Sajjad Hussain - a brief life story

The following info is extracted from issue # 56 of Listeners' Bulletin
published in February 1984.

On September 27, 1956, he surprised Ustad Allaudin Khan, Bade Ghulam
Ali Khan, Ahmedjan Thirkawa, Vinayak Rao Patwardhan, Ali Akbar Khan
and Nikhil Bannerjee, in a classical music sabha in Calcutta.  He did
this by playing Harikauns and Shivranjani on Mandolin. There is no
"Meend" in Mandolin. The music goes up and finishes. But he had
practiced so hard that when Bade Ghulam Ali Khan "sang" a very
difficult "taan", Sajjad Hussain reproduced it on Mandolin.

He was born in 1899 in Sitamau (M. P.)  into a musical family. As a
child, he mastered Sitar, Veena, Violin, Jaltarang, Flute, Piano,
Banjo, Clarionet, Harp, Accordian, Spanish and Hawaaian guitars and
Mandolin.

He came to Bombay in 1940. Later, Pandit Hanuman Prasad said that
Sajjad Hussain is a one-man orchestra. His movie list follows:

1944 - Gaali (with Hanuman Prasad),
       Dost
1945 - Dharm
1946 - 1857, Tilasmi Duniya
1947 - Kasam, Mere Bhagawan
1950 - Khel, Maghroor (with Bulo C. Rani and
       Ram Panjawani)
1951 - Hulchul (with Mohammad Shafi), Sayyan
1952 - Sangdil
1955 - Rukhsana
1963 - Rustam Sohrab (Surayya's last film)

      In 1994, Pankaj Udhas came to Lubbock to give a concert and he
introduced one of his musicians as Sajjad Hussain's son. His name is
Nasir Ahmed Qureshi and he was absolutely breathtaking on Mandolin!

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