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Gulnar Begum

The Life and Art of Gulnar Begum

Have you heard Gulnar Begum's songs? If you love Pashto music and like Pashto music, you must have Listen Gulnar Begum's songs, but you must have wondered who Gulnar Begum is. Where did Gulnar Begum live? These and a number of other such questions will come to your mind in reference to Gulnar Begum. In this article, I would like to share with you a Biography of Gulnar Begum or a brief history of Gulnar Begum and her best songs and all the information that you have not read before.

Gulnar Begum is a Brand & popular name in Pashto music. Gulnar Begum's voice was considered as a guarantee of success of Pashto music. And in Pashto movies, when Gulnar Begum's song came, the whole cinema hall would be in frenzy and Dancing.

Gulnar Begum was born in 1934. Her father's name was Sher Akbar.

There are different views about her village and homeland. Some scholars of Pashto music and researcher believe that Gulnar Begum was a resident of Swat and was married in Marwat area. Some people say that Gulnar Begum was a resident of Banosai , resident of bannu district of kpk.

According to the authentic sources, Gulnar Begum was a resident of Swat area and had migrated to Peshawar with her father and family as a child. Her husband name was Obaidullah resedint of bannu district. And after her death she was buried in Bannu and his grave is still in Bannu Cemetery.

According to reports, Gulnar Begum did not start singing at a very young age and initially she would sing at village weddings and then she came to Radio Pakistan Peshawar center where she started singing regularly and soon became very popular,and soon she  make a name and fame in the whole Pashtun homeland.

Gulnar Begum's father's name was Sher Akbar and she had three brothers and one sister. Her sister's name was Bibi Begum. One brother's name was Badr Khan and the other brother's name was Ajab Khan. Gulnar Begum was also called Gulnar Begum and would be called Shirina at home.

When Gulnar Begum grew up, her father married her to a man from Marwat named Obaidullah. Obaidullah was known in his area as Haji Dilawar who living in bannu district of Kpk.

Gulnar Begum was Obaidullah's third wife. Obaidullah's other wife Dilshad Begum was also a singer but her songs are not available in recorded form.

Gulnar Begum had three sons, her eldest son Javed and another son Jalil and the youngest son Saeed. Among Gulnar Begum's sons Saeed had a master's degree in Urdu literature from the university.

Gulnar Begum had a very sweet voice from Allah. For the first time in 1954, Gulnar Begum came to Radio Pakistan through the efforts of Arbab Rashid Ahmad Khan Dehqaan and recorded her first song in the studios of the radio station in Peshawar. Whenever Gulnar Begum's voice was first aired on Radio Pakistan Peshawar Center, people loved her and gave her a standing ovation. And then began Gulnar Begum's singing journey which continued till the year 1905.

Gulnar Begum

Gulnar Begum has recorded thousands of songs in her showbiz career, most of which have been recorded for Pashto films, which have become very popular.

She has also recorded hundreds of songs for Radio Pakistan. Gulnar Begum was known as Lata Mangeshkar in Pashto at that time.

There was a time when any movie that featured Gulnar Begum's recorded songs would be a big hit in the cinema and a movie that did not have Gulnar Begum's songs would fail.

Most of the Pashto moviegoers would go to the cinema hall for Gulnar Begum's songs, and after the release of the film, Gulnar Begum's song cassettes would be sold in large numbers in the market.

In Pashto films, Gulnar Begum's songs have been posturized on Yasmeen Khan, Zeba, Musrat Shaheen, Sunita Khan, Babra Raj, Shahnaz and a number of other film actresses. Her voice had a magical effect that made her very popular in Pashto music in a very short time.

When Gulnar Begum has been sang, other Pashto singers like Kishwar Sultan, Mashooq Sultan, Dilshad Begum, Mehjabeen Qazalbash etc. were also present at that time but they did not get as much fame as Gulnar Begum did. The voice of Khyal Mohammad Ustad was also very popular with Gulnar Begum.

Gulnar Begum belonged to a poor family, initially she have problem with one eye, which has continue eight years. At that time, Gulnar Begum had no money for eye treatment.

In a radio interview with Gulnar Begum, she said that before the advent of radio, I used to listen to radio and listen to Bacha Zarreen Jana's songs and I used to study and learning. , And Sabzali Khan's voices were very pleasing. Gulnar Begum said that my family was not interested in singing but when I got married so my husband's sister named Gohar Begum and she used to sing on the radio and she became interested in my singings. Then a radio producer named Arbab Rashid Ahmad Dehqan came to Bannu and told my husband's brother that I needed a female singer, so my husband's brother told him that my brother’s wife named gulnar have interested.

When Dehqan sab came to meet with me, my husband refused to sing. But then my mother-in-law said that you have permission and after that Rashid Ahmad Dehqan Saib came again to my house and I joined him behind the scenes. They gave me mice and I recorded two songs for them and they were broadcast on Radio Pakistan and became very popular.In response to a question, Gulnar Begum said that the first song I recorded for the radio was:

Gulnar Begum Pashto Songs:

نرے باران دے پاس پۀ لوړو ئې وروينه

جورې کرمې ته نصيب راوړې يمه

جانانه لاس راکړه چې دواړه سره ځونه

It is raining heavily in the mountains

And this my destiny to come to kurram region

My beloved gave me a hand to go both

According to Gulnar Begum, she did not know the number of songs she has sung for radio in her life. She has sung tens of thousands of songs before. It includes tapaai, waziri, songs, ghazals, charbetas, and mesraiezi songs, but most of them are mesraiezi songs.

Apart from radio, Gulnar Begum has sung hundreds of songs for Pashto films, songs for her first film of her life; songs for popular Pashto film (Dara e Khyber), these film songs were became very popular.

Gulnar Begum was not educated so her song would not be remembered very soon. Whenever a poet wrote a new song, he would give it to Gulnar Begum and she would memorize it and then record it.

Aside from radio and movie songs, she did not sing for TV because she would hide her body and cover herself, which is why she did not sing on television.

Among the radio singers, Khayal Mohammad, Kishore Sultan was Gulnar Begum's favorite singer.

Gulnar Begum's favorite song in her songs was:

Best Of Gulnar Begum Pashto Filmi Songs:

 

 

زما زړګے چې پرې ډاډه دے څومره ښکلے دے

دغه زما د اشنا کلے دے

خوا کښې ئې شنه فصلونه ښکاري ما ليدلے دے

 

دغه زما د اشنا کلے دے

دا خړ کورونه پۀ ما ګران دي د پاکې ميني مې رازدان دي

پۀ دغه سيمه مې اواز د ميني تلے دے

 

Another of her songs that she also liked and the people liked it very much:

 

دا ګير چاپير پۀ غرونو راغلل بارانونه ياره ګلۍ وريږي نه

مۀ ځه دلته شپه اوکړه پاتې شه باران دے

 

باران رو رو پرې وريږه نو

پۀ مسافر اشنا مې نشته دالانونه ياره ګلۍ وريږي نا۔۔۔۔

 

باران وريږي غولے ډهنډ شو ياره

قدم زما پۀ قدم ږده راځه دننه ياره ګلۍ وريږي نا۔۔۔۔

 

زما د دواړو سترګو توره

پۀ زوره زوره ژړا تاپسې کومه ياره ګلۍ وريږي نا۔۔۔۔۔

 

زما دننه د زړه سر ئې

د چا پۀ مخکښې درته راشه نۀ وايمه ياره ګلۍ وريږي نا ۔۔۔۔۔۔۔

 

Whatever songs Gulnar Begum sang were considered super hit Pashto songs, and there was such magic in her voice that when she shouted at the song, all the people would be silent and listen to her. In fact, her voice was a guarantee of success for the songs. She was accompanied by Rabab Ustad Zameer, Ustad Khushoo, Ustad Sabzali, and Ustad and music composer Bakhtiar Ahmad.

Gulnar Begum has sung most of the songs for the film in her last life. She has sung for hundreds of films including popular movies, Dara Khyber دره خيبر, Deedan ديدن, Navi da yawe shpi, ناوي د يوې شپې لور د ډاکوLoor da Dakoo, da zangal bacha, peghaltoobپيغلتوب, topak zma qanoonټوپک زما قانون, etc. Gulnar Begum has sung songs for films. Most of her poetry is written by Amir Ghulam Sadiq and her music is composed by Fazal Rabi Pardesi and ST Sunni.

The songs recorded on the radio by Gulnar Begum are composed by ST Sunni, Bakhtiar Ustad, and Rafiq Shinwari.

This sweet voice of Pashto language and the Night angle of Pashto music close to the hearts of millions of people were afflicted with liver disease in the year 1980 and finally due to this disease on October first on Sunday, in the year 1983 she died in the Bannu area, and was buried there. And very sadly to say that the heartbeat of millions, the evergreen and beautiful voice of Pashto music became silent forever.

May Allah give Gulnar Begum a high position in Paradise and may her soul rest in peace.