Rashid Attre

Rasheed Attre
Born15 February 1919
Amritsar, British India
Died18 December 1967 (1967-12-19) (aged 48)
Lahore, Pakistan
Other namesRashid Attre
OccupationFilm music composer
ChildrenWajahat Attre (son) (also was a noted film music director)
AwardsNigar Awards in 1957, 1959 and 1962

Abdul Rasheed Attray (15 February 1919 – 18 December 1967),[1] also known as Rasheed Attre, was a Pakistani film score composer.[2]

Early life and career

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Rasheed Attre was born in Amritsar, Punjab, British India in 1919. His father, Khushi Mohammad, was also singer-musician in his time. Young Rasheed acquired his initial music lessons from Khan Sahib Ashfaq Husain. Sharp enough in the field of learning music, Rasheed soon mastered the musical instruments in general and tabla, in particular.[3]

In the early 1940s, Rasheed decided to consolidate his efforts towards music composition and started his music career from Mahishori pictures, Lahore, for whom he composed two songs for the film Pagli (1943). The rest of (Pagli)'s songs were composed by Ustaad Jhanday Khan.[4][3]

Rashid Attre was selected as the music director to compose songs for the Bombay Talkies' first Muslim social film Nateeja (1947), whose superhit ghazal ‘Kahan mein aur kahan deen-e-haram ki kashmakash, Nakhshab, kis kay naqsh-e-pa per rakh diya ghabra kay sar mein nay' is popular to date.[4]

Once he migrated to Pakistan with his family in 1948,[3] he initially was not able to take full advantage of noted singer Noor Jehan's singing talent, because Noor Jehan, in those days, would sing only for those films in which she also acted. So Rashid Attre used playback singers Zubaida Khanum and Naseem Begum in the early years of his career in Pakistan. Later, when Noor Jehan changed her mind, he composed music for many popular songs by her before he died in 1967.[5]

Filmography

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In India

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  • Mamta (1942)[3]
  • Pagli (1943)
  • Panna (1944)[3]
  • Shireen Farhaad (1945)[3]
  • Kamra No. 9 (1946)[3]
  • Nateeja (1947)[3]
  • Paaro (1947)
  • Shikayat (1948)[3]

In Pakistan

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Selected hit songs

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Awards and recognition

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Death

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Rasheed Attre died on 18 December 1967, at the age of 48.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g Sultan Arshad Khan (4 August 2019). "Three Generations of Songmakers". Dawn newspaper. Archived from the original on 7 April 2023. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
  2. ^ a b c "Tuningin: Legends live on (Tribute to Rasheed Attre)". Dawn newspaper. 30 May 2010. Archived from the original on 8 April 2023. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Sharad Dutt (22 February 2020). "Revered Maestro Rasheed Attre". Millennium Post newspaper. Archived from the original on 8 April 2023. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
  4. ^ a b c d e Aijaz Gul (9 August 2018). "Mukhra: Old fashioned romance". The News International newspaper. Archived from the original on 8 April 2023. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h "Rashid Attre's profile". Dawn newspaper. 18 August 2019. Archived from the original on 9 April 2023. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Rashid Attre film songs list". Pakistan Film Magazine website. Archived from the original on 5 May 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
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