Roshan Ara Begum - old interview 1 of 2 - Program Mulaqat - by Khalil Ahmad & M Iqbal - PTV Classic

Roshan Ara Begum - interviewd in Program Mulaqat by Khalil Ahmad & M Iqbal - PTV CLASSIC
(1917 - 5 Dec 1982)

Migrating to Pakistan in 1948 after the partition of India, Roshan Ara Begum settled in Lalamusa, a small town from which her husband hailed. Although far away from Lahore, the cultural centre of Pakistan, she would travel back and forth to participate in music and radio programmes. Visual and audio recording-devices have preserved the richness of Roshan Ara's music — which often overflowed with tonal modulations — its sweetness and delicacy of gamaks and her slow progression of raags. Roshan Ara Begum also sang some film songs, mostly under music composers like Anil Biswas, Feroze Nizami and Tassaduq Hussain. She sang for well-known films such as Pahali Nazar (1945), (Jugnu (1947), Qismat (1956), Roopmati Baazbahadur (1960) and Neela Parbat (1969).

She died in Pakistan in 1982 at the approximate age of sixty-five.