Bhar Do Jholi Meri.... Eid Mubarak
In one movie that I watched long back, a character is seen passing by a masjid or dargah and while he is there, a song is playing on loudspeaker.....the line that one can hear is ..Bhar Do Jholi Meri.. Tere Dar Se Naa Jooinga Khali...Once the character moves on from the site, the song also ends abruptly...
I was much young at that time but the one two line snatch of the song had left its imprint on my mind and heart, and I tried to find out more about the song but no one could tell me anything about it. Yes, all agreed that hearing those one two lines of song in the movie does leave a lasting impact.
Much later, I learnt from one Haji Saheb that it is a quawalli sung by Sabri Brothers of Pakistan who speciliaise in singing sufiana kalam, and that it is dedicated to a dargah located in Pakistan. Haji Saheb also told us about other popular spiritual songs of Pakistan like Dama Dam Mast Kalandar...
Haji ji informed us, a group of college going boys then, that the Bulleshah mentioned in famous song of film Bobby was actually a sufi saint of Pakistan and his songs are immensely popular in Pakistan.
Once I saw on tv, Gulzar Saheb was attributing the success of a song penned by him to sufi saint Bulleshah. Besides, we have seen our popular film hero dancing to the tunes of Chhaiyan Chhaiyan... dance number.. atop a train. This song was also an adaptation of the song written by Bulleshah. This song is addressed to God and originally worded as ..Tere Isq Nachaya...Karke Thaiya Thaiya...
Much later, after the advent of internet, thanks to you tube, I could hear the full song Bhar Do Jholi ... .. Dar Se Naa Jaooinga Khali... sung by Sabri Brothers and many more such popular sufi songs.
Other than Sabri Brothers, so many other singers have earned name and fame by singing sufi songs like Wadali Brothers, Reshma, Runa Laila, Abida Praveen, and now Kailash Kher is singing such songs. With Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Adnan Sami gets included to the list.
Bhar Do Jholi Meri.. has been included in the recently released film Bajrangi Bhaijaan. The sufi song gels beautifully in the film's plot and it adds continuity to the ongoing travails of the lead character. Besides, the singer Adnan Sami, who was known for his Lift Kara De..number..has done full justice to the song even in these days of synthetic sounds and cacophony of electronically created music. His voice comes out fine as the lead qawwali singer even when several instruments are playing and so much of clapping is going on. Even the melody queen Lata Didi was impressed and blessed Adnan.
As such, in the Indian sub continent, including areas now in Pakistan and Bangladesh, sufi saints have been accorded huge respect and are revered much after they depart from the terra firma. We have so many famous dargah like holy shrines of Ajmer, Fatehpur Sikri. Hazi ali and Nizamuddin.
It is seen that the song featuring in Bajrangi Bhaijaan has been shot at the famous jiyarat (dargah ) of Sheikh Zainuddin of Aishmuqm located between Anantnag and Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir.
In one movie that I watched long back, a character is seen passing by a masjid or dargah and while he is there, a song is playing on loudspeaker.....the line that one can hear is ..Bhar Do Jholi Meri.. Tere Dar Se Naa Jooinga Khali...Once the character moves on from the site, the song also ends abruptly...
I was much young at that time but the one two line snatch of the song had left its imprint on my mind and heart, and I tried to find out more about the song but no one could tell me anything about it. Yes, all agreed that hearing those one two lines of song in the movie does leave a lasting impact.
Much later, I learnt from one Haji Saheb that it is a quawalli sung by Sabri Brothers of Pakistan who speciliaise in singing sufiana kalam, and that it is dedicated to a dargah located in Pakistan. Haji Saheb also told us about other popular spiritual songs of Pakistan like Dama Dam Mast Kalandar...
Haji ji informed us, a group of college going boys then, that the Bulleshah mentioned in famous song of film Bobby was actually a sufi saint of Pakistan and his songs are immensely popular in Pakistan.
Once I saw on tv, Gulzar Saheb was attributing the success of a song penned by him to sufi saint Bulleshah. Besides, we have seen our popular film hero dancing to the tunes of Chhaiyan Chhaiyan... dance number.. atop a train. This song was also an adaptation of the song written by Bulleshah. This song is addressed to God and originally worded as ..Tere Isq Nachaya...Karke Thaiya Thaiya...
Much later, after the advent of internet, thanks to you tube, I could hear the full song Bhar Do Jholi ... .. Dar Se Naa Jaooinga Khali... sung by Sabri Brothers and many more such popular sufi songs.
Other than Sabri Brothers, so many other singers have earned name and fame by singing sufi songs like Wadali Brothers, Reshma, Runa Laila, Abida Praveen, and now Kailash Kher is singing such songs. With Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Adnan Sami gets included to the list.
Bhar Do Jholi Meri.. has been included in the recently released film Bajrangi Bhaijaan. The sufi song gels beautifully in the film's plot and it adds continuity to the ongoing travails of the lead character. Besides, the singer Adnan Sami, who was known for his Lift Kara De..number..has done full justice to the song even in these days of synthetic sounds and cacophony of electronically created music. His voice comes out fine as the lead qawwali singer even when several instruments are playing and so much of clapping is going on. Even the melody queen Lata Didi was impressed and blessed Adnan.
As such, in the Indian sub continent, including areas now in Pakistan and Bangladesh, sufi saints have been accorded huge respect and are revered much after they depart from the terra firma. We have so many famous dargah like holy shrines of Ajmer, Fatehpur Sikri. Hazi ali and Nizamuddin.
It is seen that the song featuring in Bajrangi Bhaijaan has been shot at the famous jiyarat (dargah ) of Sheikh Zainuddin of Aishmuqm located between Anantnag and Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir.
