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Mujeeb Aalam was retired from films since 1979. He use to participate in private shows and musical programmes broad casted from Ptv and other channels. He was sick and died of heart attack on June 2nd, 2004. With his death, the golden era of [[Pakistan film industry]] also met an end. |
Mujeeb Aalam was retired from films since 1979. He use to participate in private shows and musical programmes broad casted from Ptv and other channels. He was sick and died of heart attack on June 2nd, 2004. With his death, the golden era of [[Pakistan film industry]] also met an end.<ref>http://anisshakur.tripod.com/id86.html</ref> |
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Mujeeb Aalam (July 7, 1948 - June 2,2004) was a Pakistani playback singer who had a short film career. His singing style was a mixture of Mehdi Hassan and Ahmad Rushdi's style.[1]
Career
Mujeeb Aalam was born in Mianwali in an Urdu speaking family. He started his film career in an unreleased film "Nargis" in 1964 but "Jalwa" (1966) was his debut film with a super hit song: "koi ja ke unn se kehdey" which was picturised on Darpan. Unfortunately, he got a short film career and was ignored by film musicians from the mid 1970s. His song tally is under hundred film songs.Mujeeb Alam lived in the long shadow of highly successful Pakistani singers in the mid-sixties. However, soon he made is own distinct way into the world of music. Essentially he was a very humorous person He loved to exchange jokes and made friends easily. The song which brought over night fame for him was "Wo meray samnay tasweer banay baithay hain" (film: Chakori:1967, director: Ehtesham, composer: Robin Ghosh) Mujeeb won the Nigar Award for this song. Moreover, Mujeeb was highly successful in romantic scores as well. He recorded songs with almost all female singers of his time and all those duets were mega-hits.
Death
Mujeeb Aalam was retired from films since 1979. He use to participate in private shows and musical programmes broad casted from Ptv and other channels. He was sick and died of heart attack on June 2nd, 2004. With his death, the golden era of Pakistan film industry also met an end.[2]