In Loving Memory of Nazia Apa (aka Nazia Hasan)

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How about Noor Jehan versus Nazia Hasan versus Lata next time?

She is the original... the memories she brings back... love all her songs, still can`t beleive she`s gone... she was the only breath of fresh air in an otherwise culturally bottlenecked and devoid country... May Allah bless her with heaven and peace, Ameen...

thank you all for your compliments and praise...
Nazia Hassan really was a pioneer and a source of inspiration for all...
most people never acknowledge this in India, but she was the initiator of modern pop music. alisha and sunita rao came later, and certainly never compared to Nazia...
also what set her apart from the rest was the fact that she was educated. youd never feel youre listening to some woman from a village or from the ``bad`` areas of inner cities...
i still recall one song i heard after her death, which actually sounded like she was singing it about herself...``teri yaad``...every line was as if all her fans were singing it to her...
jaane kyun...teri yaad aati hai...
mit tee naheen...bus barhtee rehti hai....
dhoondoon...ab tujh ko kahan....
soona soona..mera jahan...
mere paas....ab hai kya...
bus teri yaad...

i think she`s a good role model for pakistani females...... bold and talented.

i don`t get tired of her songs

What a coincidence. In the past few days I have been listening to Nazia Hassans songs a lot, songs which I had not listened to for quite some time. Her songs all of a sudden made me so ecstatic and happy.

A beautiful tribute for a wonderful person Zeeshan. May her soul rest in peace.

Thank you for this article, Zeeshan. We saw a documentary one of her friends made on her life last year at the Kara Film Festival. She was an extraordinary person.

Without a doubt she is responsible for laying the foundations of very successful Pakistani Pop Industry ... it is precisely for this that she is always paid glowing tributes by the Pop Musicians of Pakistan... To Indians she might have been just a musician, but to us Pakistanis she was a source of relief in the age of martial law. Nazia sang and the Pakistanis danced through out the Zia years.

Nazia Hasan was everybody`s favourite. The entire nation was mersmerised by her voice in the wake of `aap jaisa koi`.
It was a crude shock to know of her tragic death. I still remember how fondly the Indian media had remembered her then.
Makes me shudder to know if a person of Nazia`s stature and family background could be made to suffer so much, what could be the plight of the ordinary woman.
A promising life snipped in the bud.
May her soul rest in peace.......

Nazia Hasan was everybody`s favourite. The entire nation was mersmerised by her and later the brother-sister team.
It was a crude shock to know of her tragic death. A promising life snipped in the bud.
I still remember how fondly the Indian media remembered her then.
Makes me shudder to know that if a person of Nazia`s stature and family background could suffer so much, what could be the plight of the ordinary woman.
May her soul rest in peace.

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Zeeshan:

...a good tribute to your apa: may she rest in peace...

dum liya tha na qayamat nay hunooz
phir tera waqt-w-safar yaad aaya

rgds,

t

ps: reference to ishtiaq was perhaps inevitable...but allusion to zeba...whether true or false was in bad taste...

Nazia Hassan... that beautiful and melodious lady who toiled in and out of life...

When I bought my new car the question was to furnish it with cassettes, and Nazia Hassan somehow was the obvious choice... whenever I listen to her songs, I think she is alive... after all a true artist never dies but lives on with his/her work...

Thankyou for writing such a frank piece... Zeeshan...

May Nazia`s soul always rest in peace.

Manto