Bestie also has a romantic song that is filmed in the beautiful location of Manali, a grandly picturized wedding song and the qawwali sung by Javed Ali. Malayalam film BESTY featuring Ashkar Saudan, ...

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, ...

Some forms of cultural expression defy the need for translation. So it is for the traditional South Asian music qawwali, according to its fans and adherents. Most commonly played at Sufi shrines in ...

Actor Ali Fazal has been educating himself about the well-known ghazals of his hometown Lucknow. With so much conversation around remixes and remakes, I find the need to rediscover our musical roots ...

Two decades after Nusrat, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan takes the qawwali even closer to the song format and strengthens its place in film music It has been twenty years since Nusrat Fateh Ali passed away and ...

The new album Dub Qawwali takes the vocal stylings of the Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, who died 10 years ago, and puts them over a reggae beat. Nusrat, a Pakistani singer, has sold more records worldwide ...

I count myself incredibly fortunate to have seen Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan perform while he was still alive, this was back in 1990, at a little hamlet called Santa Barbara, a year or so ...

Videos of the musician giving a musical triibute to Moosewala has gone viral Pakistani Sufi singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan dedicated a Qawwali to Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala on his first death ...

Actor Ali Fazal has been educating himself about the well-known ghazals of his hometown Lucknow. Incidentally, it was Ali’s uncle Rizwan Saeed, who introduced him to the maestro of qawwali, Habib ...