Abhi Toh Main Jawan Hoon

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Adnan__________

From: "A.F.Sh."

Newsgroups: rec.music.indian.miscAbhi to MaiN jawan hooN

by Hafeez Jalandhari

hava bhi khushgavar hai

guloN pay bhi nikhaar hai

tarannumay hazaar hai

bahar pur bahar haikahaN chala hai saaqia

idher to lot, idher to aa

aray yay daykhta hai kya

utha suboo, suboo uthasuboo utha peyala bher

peyala bher kay day idher

chaman key simt ker nazar

samaaN to daykh baykhabarvo kali kali bedliaN

ufaq pay ho gayeeN ravaaN

vo ik hujoomay maykashaaN

hai soo-e maykada ravaaNyay kya gumaaN hai budgumaaN

samajh na mujh ko naatavaaN

khayalay zohd abhi kahaN

abhi to maN jawan hooN

--------------ibaadatoN ka zikr hai

nijaat key bhi fikr hai

khayal hai azaab ka

junoon hai savaab kamagar suno to shaykh jee

ajeeb shay haiN aap bhi

bhala shabab-o-ashiqi

alag huay bhi haiN kabhihaseen jalva raise hoN

adaaiN fitna khaiz hoN

havaaiN itr raise hoN

to shauq kyuN na taze hoNnigaar hi fitna-ger

koi idher, koi udher

pukaartay hoN aish ker

to kya karay koi basharchalo ji qissa mukhtasir

tumhara nuqta-e-nazar

darust hai to ho magar

abhi to maN jawan hooN

--------------------na gham kasho to bast ka

buland ka na past ka

no bood ka na hast ka

na badaa-e urest kaumeed aur yaas gum

havas gum, qayas gum

nazar say aas paas gum

huma bajus gilaas gumna mai maiN kuch kami rahay

qaza say humdami rahay

nishast yay jami rahay

yehi huma humi rahayvo saaz chair mutriba

zara baja alam ruba

asar kada-e-saaz ka

jigar maiN aag si lagaher aik lub pay ho sada

na haath rok saaqia

pilaae ja pilaae ja

pilaae ja, pilaae jaabhi to maN jawan hooN

Adnan Sahib, I seem to have missed David's post on this subject. This

message is not available on my server and I can't seem to get it thru

DejaNews either. Can you repost it and/or email it to me. I'd like to see some more

discussion on this thread. Thanks.Regards,Yogesh Sethi

Malika's Abhi to main jawan hoon ghazal has become an evergreen song that she recited 90 years ago in 1927 in the court of the then ruler Maharaja Hari Singh and earned a fabulous award of Rs.350 in appreciation. The reward at that point of time when she was 15-year-old child was not a small amount as with it she could have bought about 228 grams of gold at that time which would today cost more than Rs.7 lakh.

The rare receipt of the reward on one Anna revenue stamp of the Bhaderwah Jagir of the Maharaja was available in the royal record. At the age of 13, she visited Jammu and recited some song at the coronation ceremony of Maharaja Hari Singh, who was so overwhelmed by her voice that he appointed her as a court singer. She, however, became a world famous ghazal and folk singer but she did not forget her roots in Jammu.

It was just like a festival for people of Jammu when Malika Pukhraj along with Tahira for the last time came here in early 1980's and performed in a jam-packed theatre. She also visited her house in the lanes of Kanak Mandi, which is now known as Rajinder Bazar.

Maharashtra politician Sharad Pawar, virtually the lone opposition leader campaigning for the October 21 state election, responded to the ruling BJP's digs on "touring at this age" with a famous song: "Abhi Toh Main Jawan Hoon (I am still young)."

Sharad Pawar, 78, is seen to be the only leader of the opposition Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) alliance that has been addressing rallies in the run-up to the election in which the BJP and its partner Shiv Sena expect a smooth victory.

"They say I am 80 years old. Do you think I am old? I won't sit quiet until the Sena-BJP government is removed in this state. And for that 'Abhi toh main jawan hoon. Koi chinta karne ki kaaran nahi hai (I am still young. No one needs to worry)," Mr Pawar, the NCP chief, said at a rally in Kolhapur today.

"The Congress and NCP are in bad shape. Their state of mind is that of defeat. Rahul Gandhi is holidaying in Bangkok. He knows they are going to lose in Maharashtra and he does not want to come here. (Sharad Pawar) Pawar Saheb is on tours. But even he knows his party is on the brink of collapse. Half his party has left before elections and the other half will leave after elections. Sushil Kumar Shinde says we are so exhausted that after elections Congress and NCP will merge," Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said at an election rally in Dhule.

Born in a village in Jammu in 1912, Pukhraj began training very early. When she was five, she was singing nohas (lamentations) and marsiyas (mournings) with such depth that her parents sent her to Delhi to learn music and dance from such famous musicians as Ustaad Momin Khan, Ustaad Mollah Bukhsh Talwandi and Ustaad Ashiq Ali. Pukhraj learnt thumri singing from Ustad Mamman Khan and kathak dance from Lachhu Maharaj in Mumbai.

At the age of 17, she left Jammu for Lahore where she married Syed Shabbir Hussain, a writer of Urdu short stories. Here she began performing for All India Radio and also began singing ghazals, dadras and thumris in private concerts. In the 1930s, along with Begum Akhtar, Pukhraj made a name for herself as an indomitable voice in semi-classical singing. Exposure to literary greats such as Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Hafeez Jallandhari (who wrote Abhi toh main jawaan hoon besides the national anthem of Pakistan) and her popularity on radio brought maturity to her artistry.

Pukhraj tried her luck in films, but a few days after shooting for a Wadia Movietone film song, she fled. In this rare video clip you can see her walking listlessly around a drawing room, singing a love elegy. Her powerful vocal chords do not require any accompanying instrument as she towers over the composition with the throw of her voice.

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