Naseeruddin Saami | कन्हैया याद है कुछ भी हमारी | kanhaiyaa yaad hai kuchh bhii hamaarii | 2006

Описание: This was Naseeruddin Saami's performance for the APMC in 2006 at Lahore.

This was written by Jamaluddin Ahmad Khan, better known as Hilm Aaghai Abulolai or simply 'Hilm' from Hyderabad.

Born Muhammad Jamal-ud-Din Khan Sadiq Jang in Hyderabad, India, he was famous for his thumris written under the pen name Hilm.

Nawab Fasahat Jang Bahadur Jalil Hassan Jalil writes in his Tareeqah:

“I have examined his [Hilm's] works carefully. There are more than one hundred Thumris in his collection, in almost every Raga. His knowledge of music is remarkable. Hilm's work is very subtle and valuable in every respect.”

The words of the original taken from 'सुरूद-ए-रूहानी', Second edition, Page 397 are:

कहूं क्या तेरे भूलने के मैं वारी
कन्हैया याद है कुछ भी हमारी

बमना से मिनती मैं कर कर पूछी
पल पल की खबर तिहारी

पय्यां पड़ी महादेव के जाकर
टोना भी कर कर हारी

कन्हैया याद है कुछ भी हमारी
खाक परे लोगो इस ब्याहने पर

अच्छी थी रहती कुँवारी
माइके में रहती थी मैं ‘हिल्म’ सुख से

फिरती थी क्यों मारी मारी
कन्हैया याद है कुछ भी हमारी

I have not been able to find the exact time period for Hilm, but he is sometime in the late 19th century, so the verse would be at about 150 years old.

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The generation that has grown up on Coke Studio Pakistan will perhaps best know Delhi Gharana's Naseeruddin Saami to be Ali Sethi's Karachi-based ustad. A disciple of Munshi Raziuddin, here he sings the bandish attributed to Raziuddin's great grandfather Umrao Khan, s/o Tanras Khan of the Qawaal Bachche (Delhi) gharana.

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Also see other versions of this by his cousins, Farid Ayaz and Abu Mohammed on this channel.

The performances of this move between Desh and Tilak Kamod and possibly other elements. In thumris and dadras, performers have the liberty to not not stick to strict grammar anyway.

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