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LIBRARY & NEWSLETTER<br />
The Musical Genes<br />
from Multan, the City of Saints<br />
AN EVENING WITH<br />
Suraiya & Rahat Multanikar<br />
“How sweet the<br />
moonlight sleeps upon<br />
this bank! Here will we<br />
sit and let the sounds<br />
of music creep in our<br />
ears: soft stillness and<br />
the night become the<br />
touches of sweet<br />
harmony”<br />
So rightly put by William Shakespeare befits an evening that was a beautiful confluence of the<br />
much-celebrated folk legend Suraiya Multanikar, and her daughter Rahat Multanikar hosted by the very<br />
accomplished Dr. Omer Adil.<br />
The evening provided the audience with an opportunity to listen to Suraiya and gain insight to her journey<br />
from the beginning of herthat includes classical, smiclassical, folk, and film songs. career. The Sitara e<br />
Imtiaz winner is eminent for her body of work,<br />
While the lilting voice of 1960’s recalled how she gained popularity at a very young age and crooned ‘Bare<br />
Bemurawat Hain Yeh Husan Waley’ to begin with, the song that earned her widespread recognition; Rahat<br />
Multanikar, taking her mother’s craft forward captivated the audience with ‘Meri Dastan e Hasrat’,‘Dil he<br />
tou hai na sang-o-Khisht’ and a few other. The grand musical extravaganza ended with Suraiya switching<br />
to faster tracks and changing the overall ambience before being swarmed by fans for pictures who had<br />
come out in great numbers to fill the two halls to near capacity.<br />
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