Ranveer Singh’s Dhurandhar features a song that revives a 70-year-old qawwali originally performed by Mubarak Ali and Fateh ...

Ranveer Singh's 'Dhurandhar' features a song that echoes the iconic qawwali from 1960's 'Barsat Ki Raat'. This film qawwali, ...

Ranveer Singh’s Dhurandhar revives the iconic qawwali ‘Na To Karvaan Ki Talash Hai’, composed by Hrithik Roshan’s grandfather Roshan Lal Nagrath with lyrics by Sahir Ludhianvi. The song is not mere ...

“There are certain things that must be done for the sake of history.” That was Manjari Chaturvedi’s motivation for curating the Qawwali Photo Project, an exhibition of photographs featuring the lives ...

Sonu Nigam's new qawwali ‘Yeh Ishq Ishq Hai' from Ranveer Singh's Dhurandhar has sparked nostalgia as fans compare it to the ...

Qawwali has historically been upheld by gharanas that boast of an affinity with the genre that dates back to the time of Amir Khusrow. However, changing trends of the music industry in recent times ...

Have you ever wondered how qawwali transcended years of cultural appropriation and still finds relevance in mainstream art and cinema? In another session, founder of South Asian Alliance for ...

Qawwali is a musical form associated with the sama’, spiritual concert, of the Chishti Sufi Order. In its religious context it functions as a way to bring members of the order into a trance-like state ...

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is hailed for opening this insular form of music to outside musical influences, even from the West However, it was still limited to the shrines and there was no concept of it ...

‘Sufisaints bring people together. And so do the musicians and singers who sing Qawwali, an Indian localised form of Sufimusic,’ said Haji Mohammed Idris of the Qutbi Brothers, one of India’s most ...

Pakistan is remembering today the legendary qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan on his 70th birth anniversary. Known as the king of qawwali, the maestro was born in Faisalabad on October 13 1948 into ...

Until some point in time roughly equivalent to the occasion of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s first trip to the West, qawwali, South Asian Islam’s ecstatic and transcendental form of musical worship was ...