Kar chale hum fida

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"Kar Chale Ham Fida" is a song written by Urdu poet Kaifi Azmi, which featured in the soundtrack of the 1964 Hindi film Haqeeqat . Music director Madan Mohan compiled the music and it was sung by Mohammad Rafi. [1] [2] In her memories of her life with her husband, Shaukat Kaifi recalled that the song "achieved the status of an anthem". [3] It has been used in election campaigns in India. [4] [5]

This song also appears as a poem in a NCERT [India] Class 10 Textbook Sparsh [6]

References

  1. Ausaja, S. M. M. (2009). Bollywood in Posters. Om Books International. p. 1963. ISBN   978-81-87108-55-9.
  2. Kumar, Vinod (2017). Md. Rafi ke 51 Geeton Ki sargam: Song Sargam or Swarlipi Book. Notion Press. p. 117. ISBN   978-1-947697-27-0.
  3. Kaifi, Shaukat (2012). Kaifi and I: A Memoir. Zubaan. ISBN   978-93-81017-50-0.
  4. Karan, Kavita (2017). "12. Cultural Political System; Popular Culture and Films in Indian Election Campaigns". In Onyebadi, Uche (ed.). Music as a Platform for Political Communication. IGI Global. p. 227. ISBN   978-1-5225-1987-4.
  5. Sarkar, N. I. (2007). Sonia Gandhi: Tryst with India. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. p. 68. ISBN   978-81-269-0744-1.
  6. https://ncert.nic.in/textbook.php?jhsp1=6-14