Can connoisseurs believe Legendary Ustad Mehdi Hassan set Raag Darbari - on someone's insistence in just few minutes before setting onto the stage one day !!! - to this immortal ghazal penned by Late Poetess Parveen Shakir !! ??
This Ghazal remains one of his most famed compositions, haunts the discerning no end.
His unmatched finesse in singing lends an extra edge to the lyrical experience wherein sensitive nuances of Raag Darbari and Raag Jaunpuri are explained by Legend himself.
More interesting to learn, Ustad's other passion was working on machines. In an elaborate interview, it is painstakingly explained about his tryst with machines since from childhood besides doing rigorous various physical workouts waking up early dawn
Leading Global Leaders of Machine & Equipment Manufacturers Ferguson's Institute of Technical Excellence most aptly accorded Diploma on Mehdi Hassan Saab who says, some 300 Ferguson Tractors were totally assembled by him, before switching over to his most passionate singing profession ..!!! was so adept in all forms of Hindustani music that prompted the panel to grade him in Radio 'A' category Artiste straightaway, speaks volumes of how grueling & tough it must have been to reach levels of excellence at very young age,bears testimony as to why he's an acclaimed Legendary Shahenshah-e-Ghazal world over.
Reason, he'd the uncanny ability to turn anything to goldmine on whatever he pressed his hands heartily, power of his application so fierce that was bestowed by none other than Almighty himself without semblance of doubt, I think therer'e not many who disagree
