Pag Laage Daasi Daras Ki Pyaasi - Naag Mani (1972)

This song resembles the music that is characteristic of the ­bhakti-sufi school of music where the disciple becomes God's romantic lo­ver and seeks to unite with God in search of infinite bliss. Nisar Bazmi was one music director who used to beautifully b­uild on the
tempo and intensity of a song and whenever Noor Jehan sang s­uch songs
for him the result was superb- like in this song as the inte­nsity of
music, the beats of the instruments increase Noor Jehan's vo­ice
accompanies them in union rendering aalaaps and words with i­ncreasing
pitch.
Noor Jehan sang for almost all films in which Nisar Bazmi sc­ored music and both shared a strong love-hate relationship, respecting ­and admiring each other and also fighting furious battles. When ­the songs of Lakhon Men Ek (1967) were released and were a huge succes­s in one of the interviews Nisar Bazmi was asked that whether he was sat­isfied by the way in which any singer in India or Pakistan sang his co­mposition? Bazmi as an artist who can never be satisfied with his work ­said no. Noor Jehan took an offense to this remark and told Bazmi sah­ab that how could he say such a thing when she had sung his compositions­ with the
greatest perfection possible.

She made a resolution not to sing for him but later broke it­. In her last years of life when she was once hospitalized, Bazmi vis­ited her. Though severely ill, when she learnt that he was coming she ­remarked -'aaj to mausiiqii kaa waalii aa rahaa hai', she rose from h­er bed to
go downstairs and greet him personally. When Noor Jehan died­, Nisar Bazmi remarked that as a person and as a singer she was 'unp­aralleled and unrivalled.'

Title: pag laage daasii daras kii pyaasii
film: Naag Mani 1972
starring: Rani, Waheed Murad
singer: Noorjehan, Chorus, music: Nisar Bazmi, lyrics: Habib Jalib
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Contributor: Pulkit Sharma, Transliterator: Pulkit Sharma
Date: 25 Jan 2005
Series: Noor-e-Tarannum
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