{"id":71936,"date":"2026-02-10T21:25:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T02:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnaorg.com\/wp\/articles\/dama-dam-mast-qalandar\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T17:27:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T22:27:34","slug":"dama-dam-mast-qalandar","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/apnaorg.com\/wp\/articles\/dama-dam-mast-qalandar\/","title":{"rendered":"Dama Dam Mast Qalandar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suhail Yousuf and Muhammad Umar <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Even on a sunny day, his room has a very gloomy feel to it. Countless moments are spent staring at the walls; an ordinary quiet shrouds the space, as if words too, have lost all motivation here. <\/h3>\n

‘Master’ Ashiq Hussain, who composed a myriad of unforgettable melodies for the Pakistani cinema for almost five decades, now, prefers a songless silence. <\/p>\n

Few are aware that Hussain is also the man who composed what can safely be called the world’s most famous dhamaal<\/EM>: Lal meri pat<\/EM>. The sufi masterpiece has propelled numerous artists from the subcontinent to international fame. <\/p>\n

Amazingly, Hussain composed this dhamaal<\/EM> in just a few minutes at the request of Saghar Siddiqui – an eminent poet, also known as the ‘Poet of Pain’ – who wrote it. <\/p>\n

Once a top notch music director in Pakistan, Hussain now lives in a slum at the Bazar-e-Hakiman near the Bhatti gate in old Lahore. <\/p>\n

Electricity is too much of a luxury to demand, while food is a godsend at the ‘Master’s’ home. <\/p>\n

This dire financial situation forced Hussain’s son Asif Ali, a talented keyboard player, to start selling pakoras<\/EM> at the roadside to feed the family. Ali, a heart patient, passed away a few days subsequent to this interview, after a hard life of toil. <\/p>\n

Hussain’s contribution to Pakistan’s silver screen cannot be eclipsed but he gained very little appreciation in contrast to his contemporaries, like Nisar Bazmi and Rasheed Atray or Robin Ghosh. <\/p>\n

But it is not just the music world that forgot Hussain, the government and even his friends turned a blind eye to Pakistani’s finest melody maestro. <\/p>\n

True to his self, Hussain, now in his 90s, has never sought help from people “who do not care about artists.” <\/p>\n

Echoed gloriously across the world in the voices of Noor Jehan, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Runa Laila, Jagjit Singh and Abida Parveen, Dama Dam Mast Qalandar<\/EM> is Hussain’s masterpiece. <\/p>\n

Lollywood owes him gratitude for composing evergreen music for movies like, Jabroo, Aakhri Dao, Billo jee, Azmat-e-Islam, Shaam Savera, Aadmi, Kaale log, Jaib Katra<\/EM> and Waris Shah<\/EM>. <\/p>\n

From : DAWN 2014-04-17 <\/p>\n

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