Rashid Attre Explained

Rasheed Attre
Alias:Rashid Attre
Birth Date:15 February 1919
Birth Place:Amritsar, British India
Occupation:Film music composer
Awards:Nigar Awards in 1957, 1959 and 1962
Children:Wajahat Attre (son) (also was a noted film music director)

Abdul Rasheed Attray (15 February 1919 – 18 December 1967),[1] also known as Rasheed Attre, was a Pakistani film score composer.[2]

Early life and career

Rasheed Attre was born in Amritsar, Punjab, British India in 1919. His father, Khushi Mohammad, was also singer-musician in his time. Young Rasheed acquired his initial music lessons from Khan Sahib Ashfaq Husain. Sharp enough in the field of learning music, Rasheed soon mastered the musical instruments in general and tabla, in particular.

In the early 1940s, Rasheed decided to consolidate his efforts towards music composition and started his music career from Mahishori pictures, Lahore, for whom he composed two songs for the film Pagli (1943). The rest of (Pagli)'s songs were composed by Ustaad Jhanday Khan.

Rashid Attre was selected as the music director to compose songs for the Bombay Talkies' first Muslim social film Nateeja (1947), whose superhit ghazal ‘Kahan mein aur kahan deen-e-haram ki kashmakash, Nakhshab, kis kay naqsh-e-pa per rakh diya ghabra kay sar mein nay' is popular to date.

Once he migrated to Pakistan with his family in 1948, he initially was not able to take full advantage of noted singer Noor Jehan's singing talent, because Noor Jehan, in those days, would sing only for those films in which she also acted. So Rashid Attre used playback singers Zubaida Khanum and Naseem Begum in the early years of his career in Pakistan. Later, when Noor Jehan changed her mind, he composed music for many popular songs by her before he died in 1967.

Filmography

In India

In Pakistan

Selected hit songs

Awards and recognition

Death

Rasheed Attre died on 18 December 1967, at the age of 48.[3]

Notes and References

  1. News: Three Generations of Songmakers . Dawn newspaper . Sultan Arshad Khan. 28 April 2024 . 4 August 2019. 7 April 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230407054152/https://www.dawn.com/news/1497890. dead.
  2. News: Tuningin: Legends live on (Tribute to Rasheed Attre). Dawn newspaper. 30 May 2010. 28 April 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20230408180927/https://www.dawn.com/news/859941/tuningin-legends-live-on. 8 April 2023. dead.
  3. News: Revered Maestro Rasheed Attre. Sharad Dutt. Millennium Post newspaper. 22 February 2020. 28 April 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20230408200248/https://www.millenniumpost.in/sunday-post/beyond-bygone/revered-maestro-rasheed-attre-402129?infinitescroll=1. 8 April 2023. dead.
  4. News: Rashid Attre's profile. Dawn newspaper. 18 August 2019. 28 April 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20230409050558/https://www.dawn.com/news/1500205/rasheed-attre. 9 April 2023. dead.
  5. News: Mukhra: Old fashioned romance . Aijaz Gul. 9 August 2018. The News International newspaper. 28 April 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20230408075955/https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/352626-mukhra-old-fashioned-romance. 8 April 2023. dead.
  6. Web site: Rashid Attre film songs list. 5 May 2017. dead. 28 April 2024. Pakistan Film Magazine website. https://web.archive.org/web/20170505151006/http://pakfilms.net/musicians/RasheedAttray.php.

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