Khwaja Khurshid Anwar

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Basic Information

Date and Place of Birth : March 21, 1912, Mianwali, Punjab, Pakistan
Date and Place of Death : October 30, 1984, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Khurshid Anwar in 1957

In 1957, holding President's Award (Govt. of Pakistan) for Best Story and Best Music for Intezar (1956)

Khurshid Anwar in 1979

In 1979.

He was a well-known Music Director, Writer, Producer and Director of movies in the Indian Sub-continent.

Anniversary October 30, 2003

Thanks to Irfan, I have added lots of new material on Khurshid Anwar. I have added 6 new photos of him with many film personalities of the sub-continent. Try to guess who they are! I have added 17 more songs from his films with full information. I have also included Irfan's RMIM posting about Khurshid Anwar's assistants in India. To enjoy all this wonderful and rare material, please go to

Anninversary 2003 Material

Anniversary October 30, 2004

Thanks to Irfan, I have added 3 photos and 22 more songs. To enjoy, please go to

Anninversary 2004 Material

More Songs Added

Once again, thanks to Irfan, I have added 16 more songs. Among them are two songs from an incomplete film, an original Malhar bandish composed by KA and sung by Ustad Fateh Ali Khan, a studio recording and his last recorded song. Please go to the link here

Sixteen new songs

Songs

Here is a selection of 20 songs (2 songs from each of his movies 1941-1952).

Song	Film	Singers
goTe daa haar ve mai.n gal vich paanii haa.n	Kurmai (Panjabi), 1941	Iqbal Begum, Rajkumari, G. M. Durrani
maahii ve raataa.n chaanaNiyaa.N The first song recorded by Khurshid Anwar	Kurmai (Panjabi), 1941	Rajkumari
panaghaT pe muraliyaa baaje	Ishara, 1943	Suraiya
ishq kaa dard suhanaa hai	Ishara, 1943	Vatsala Kunthekar
aaye din pyaar ke sajanaa	Parakh, 1944	Kaushalya, Balwant Singh
letii hai.n dam ba dam balaaye.n	Parakh, 1944	Kaushalya
duniyaa hai ye pyaar kii duniyaa	Parakh, 1944	Ira Nigam
jhuum rahii baaGo.n me.n bhiigii	Yateem, 1945	Rajkumari, G. M. Durrani
kaliyo.n ko masalane aaye hai.n	Aaj Aur Kal, 1947	Nasim Akhtar
pa.De ishq me.n jaan ke ham ko laale	Aaj Aur Kal, 1947	Zeenat Begum
jhuulanaa Dalaa de more	Pagdandi, 1947	Zeenat Begum, Munnawar Sultana, Dilshad
balamaa paTavaarii ho gaye	Pagdandi, 1947	Munnawar Sultana
saiyaa.N ne u.ngalii marorii re	Parwana, 1947	Rajkumari
aajaa balamaa rain a.ndherii laage	Parwana, 1947	Suraiya
kaisii muralii bajaa_ii shaam re	Nishaana, 1950	Geeta Roy
tuu tuu tuu ghar aajaa	Nishaana, 1950	Geeta Roy
dharak dharak tere bin meraa jiyaa	Singaar, 1949	Suraiya, Asha, Chorus
dil aane ke Dha.ng niraale hai.n	Singaar, 1949	Surinder Kaur
chham chham chham rahe.n dono.n saath har dam	Neelam Pari, 1952	Geeta Dutt, Asha
ik tuu duujii mai.n tiijaa chaa.Nd	Neelam Pari, 1952	Geeta Dutt, Chorus
meraa bholaa saa balamaa	Khamosh Sipahi, 1950	Rajkumari, Lalita Deulkar
tuma juga juga jiyo, MD Pandit Amarnath	Pagdandi, 1947	Zeenat Begum
ambavaa pe gaaye koyaliyaa	Pagdandi, 1947	Zeenat Begum

Links to an article by him and others on him

The article Amir Khusrau - A Gift to Posterity was written by Khurshid Anwar on the occasion of 700 Birth Anniversary of Amir Khursau celebrated in 1976.
It was published in Pakistan Times, a Lahore newspaper.
Brief Profile of Khurshid Anwar from 3to6.com
Memories of 90+ year old M. A. Sheikh about Khurshid Anwar and others in Yaadein
This article titled More About Khurshid Anwar written by Saeed Malik, was based on an interview with his family and published on the hipakistan website during January 2002. It is no longer available there.
Detailed interview with Javed Usman where he touches on various topics including comments of efforts to ban Indian movies, modern film music, film-making. Couple of examples of how expensive re-shooting was avoided by using clever sound effects and editing in post-production of movies directed by him.
Reviews of the following films: Intezar (1956), Zehr-I-Ishq (1958), Jhoomar (1959), Ghoonghat (1962), Chingari (1964), Hamraz (1967) and Heer Ranjha (1970)
Three new songs, see Table above.

PTV Tribute

Here is an audio of a programme that was telecast by PTV as a tribute to him on November 2,1984 (it was recorded on October 31,1984).
PTV Tribute Audio The sequence of clips can be found here.

His Filmography is in the following link

Copyright Khwaja Khurshid Anwar Trust
and Irfan Anwar who provided this material.
Thanks to Dr. Guri Singh for all the help.
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