Ghazal
For hundreds of years, musicians from India and Pakistan have taken the poetry called ghazal and set it to music. The songs project such deep longing that you don’t need to know Urdu to feel the pain. Produced by Rob Weisberg.
February 08, 2008
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So it may not be in Urdu, but it is in Spanish-- my vote for the greatest, saddest love song ever is "Cucurucucu" by Caetano Veloso. It played in the movie "Talk to Her" (Spanish with English subtitles). You should totally check it out!
There are very beautiful Ghazal in Persian. Roomy and Hafez and other Persian Poets have written many magnificent pieces. Ghazal if a format for love songs too in Persian literature.
Ali, absolutely - the ghazal came to North India from Persia. In fact as you may know there's an ensemble inspired by that connection called simply "Ghazal": Kayhan Kalhor from Iran and Shujaat Khan from India. Alexis - agreed, Caetano can take you way down. Also google this recent compilation cd: "International Sad Hits Vol.1". It's truly dire!
Thank you for this report. I searched for "famous ghazal 1987" on Google and found "Qareeb" by "Najma," which captured my interest as soon as I heard it.
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