Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s song in Sikandar

Salima Hashmi, a renowned Pakistani painter who served for four years as the head of the National College of Arts and is also the daughter of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, one of Pakistan’s most renowned poets, addressed the Indian media in Delhi recently. She was touched with the fact that BIG Pictures, the motion pictures brand of Reliance Big Entertainment Ltd, has paid a tribute to her father by incorporating his famous nazm Gulon mein rang bhare for their film Sikandar, scheduled for an April 2009 release. Prof Salima Hashmi said, “I am feeling so honoured that my father’s work have been included as a beautiful song in Sikandar.” The nazm has been adapted as visualised by the director Piyush Jha and lyricist Neelesh Misra was roped in to use the mukhda and has penned two new versions. The song metaphorically fits perfectly into the film, with the slow version composed by music directors Justin-Uday and an upbeat one by Sandesh Shandilya.

“I’ve known this song for the past 20 years,” said director Piyush Jha. “When I was writing my script, I kept thinking about the poetic embodiment of my film. This song sprang to my mind because the mukhda truly embodied the thought behind my film as it goes, ‘Let the spring breeze blow, let it bring colour into the flowers; come back so that the garden might rise to its magnificence once again.’ The rest is a modern interpretation of his lyrics and thought-process.”

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Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s song in Sikandar