Baat Niklegi to Phir
Singer: Jagjit Singh
Music: Jagjit Singh
Year: 1976
Album: The Unforgettables

This Nazm has descended from the kalam of Kafeel Azer and Jagjit Singh gave music and lend his voice to it in 1976 for his first LP album recorded for HMV.

There was a time, when the rendition of Ghazals were restricted to maestros like Noor Jahan, Malika Pukhraj, Begum Akhtar, and Mehdi Hassan. The success of 'The Unforgettables' in 1976 redefined ‘Ghazal Gaiki’. It had a new feeling, fresh sounds and melodic lyrics. It was the contemporary face of Indian Ghazal Gaiki which became popular with the masses. Skeptics had their own reservations, purists scorned at it but the audience loved the songs immensely. Jagjit Singh single handedly changed the course of this genre of music known as Ghazals making it more ear friendly, melodic and mass oriented without poaching on the purity. His singing has inventiveness, vision, imagination and innovation.

I have always been a big fan of Jagjit Singh. My liking for his songs has a long history. I heard him for the first time in 1981 and have hummed his compositions ever since. Those days we lived in Kolkata and I could not even comprehend or speak Hindi. In 1983, our family relocated to Northern India and I got a chance to learn Hindi. Mirza Ghalib, the TV serial, with Jagjit Singh’s Music and his rendered ghazals mesmerised the entire nation at that time. I was hooked to his voice and tried collecting his albums from wherever I could lay my hands on.

Baat Niklegi was the first Ghazal I learnt and now have been singing it for over seventeen years. The song has meaning and depth and its music has haunted my soul for years.

Here I present my rendition of the same for your kind ears, with the hope that you will enjoy hearing it as much as I enjoy singing.

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