Plot
Imran is a professional freelance photographer. He accepts an assignment from wealthy Nawab Dada Sarkar from Alipur, and travels there by train. When he alights at Alipur, he has problems getting a ride, and decides to walk. On the way there he comes across a mysterious singing woman, when he goes towards her, she disappears. Disturbed by this turn of events, he arrives at the Nawab's house, and is met by a young woman named Asiya, who looks exactly like the mysterious woman, but denies being her. Then the mystery deepens, as Imran is thrust into a nightmare where his sanity is under question, and he repeatedly keeps on seeing the mysterious, who no one else sees. Who is this other woman? Or is Imran hallucinating?
Abdul Wahid Khan (died 1949) was an Indian classical singer, from the Kirana gharana.
Khansahib founded the Kirana gharana musical family with Abdul Karim Khan. Abdul Karim had married Abdul Wahid Khan's sister, Gafooran Bibi. The relationship between Khan and Abdul Karim later soured when Abdul Karim neglected Gafooran Bibi and married his student, Tarabai Mane. Abdul Wahid Khan's hearing was deficient and he was sometimes referred to as Behre Wahid Khan (Deaf Wahid Khan). Wahid Khan's son Hafizullah Khan was born in 1946. Hafizullah's uncles trained him in music, and he became an accomplished sarangi player.
Khansahib forbade recordings of his performances to avoid imitation by other singers. Only three of his performances survived, recordings of the ragas Patdip, Multani, and Darbari Kanada, accompanied by Ram Narayan on tambura and Chatur Lal on tabla. They were preserved by music producer Jivan Lal Mattoo, who secretly recorded a radio broadcast in 1947, a few days before his death, to document Khan's style.
Ustad Wahid Khan is an Indian surbahar and sitar player. He was the son of Ustad Imdad Khan and belonged to the Imdadkhani gharana or Etawah Gharana of classical music. His brother Ustad Enayat Khan was also a sitar and a surbahar player. Ustad Wahid Khan and Ustad Enayat Khan were both trained by there father in sitar and surbahar. Ustad Wahid Khan specialised in the surbahar while his brother Ustad Enayat Khan specialised in sitar.
Ustad Wahid Khan was born in Etawah, Uttar Pradesh to the sitar maestro Ustad Imdad Khan . He was still quite young when Imdad Khan moved to Kolkata from Etawah with his family. In kolkata the family lived in the house of the noted connoisseur Taraprasad Ghosh, where Ustad Imdad Khan rigorously trained his two talented sons Enayat Khan and Wahid Khan.
Wahid Khan, at a very young age, was first initiated into Dhrupad, Khayal and Thumri and then in trained extensively on the Sitar and Surbahar by his father Imdad Khan for many years. Under the guidance and supervision of his father, Wahid Khan put in many years of very rigorous riyaz and mastered both the Sitar and Surbahar.
Abdul Wahid (Arabic: عبد الواحد ) is a male Muslim given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words Abd, al- and Wahid. The name means "servant of the One", Al-Wāhid being one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names.
The letter a of the al- is unstressed, and can be transliterated by almost any vowel, often by u. Alternative transliterations include Abdul Waahid, Abdul Wahed. Abdel Wahid, Abdelouahad (French transliteration) and others, all subject to variable spacing and hyphenation.
Imran Khan Niazi (Urdu: عمران خان نیازی; born 25 November 1952) is a Pakistani politician and former cricketer, playing international cricket for two decades in the late twentieth century. After retiring, he entered politics. Currently, besides his political activism, Khan is also a philanthropist, cricket commentator, Chancellor of the University of Bradford and Founder and Chairman Board of Governors of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre.
Arguably Pakistan's most successful cricket captain, Khan played for the Pakistani cricket team from 1971 to 1992 and served as its captain intermittently throughout 1982–1992. After retiring from cricket at the end of the 1987 World Cup, he was called back to join the team in 1988. At 39, Khan led his teammates to Pakistan's first and only World Cup victory in 1992. He has a record of 3807 runs and 362 wickets in Test cricket, making him one of eight world cricketers to have achieved an 'All-rounder's Triple' in Test matches. On 14 July 2010, Khan was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" is the debut song by the British band Procol Harum, released 12 May 1967. The single reached number one in the UK Singles Chart on 8 June 1967, and stayed there for six weeks. Without much promotion, it reached #5 on the US charts, as well. It is one of the fewer than 30 all-time singles to have sold 10 million (or more) copies worldwide.[citation needed]
With its haunting Bach-flavoured instrumental melody, soulful vocals, and unusual lyrics—by the song's co-authors Gary Brooker, Keith Reid, and Matthew Fisher-- "A Whiter Shade of Pale" reached #1 in several countries when released in 1967. In the years since, it has become an enduring classic. It was the most played song in the last 75 years in public places in the UK (as of 2009), and the United Kingdom performing rights group Phonographic Performance Limited in 2004 recognised it as the most-played record by British broadcasting of the past 70 years. Also in 2004, Rolling Stone placed "A Whiter Shade of Pale" #57 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.