25 SONGS BY MEHDI HASSAN:
Mehdi Hassan
By Ustad Ghulam Haider Khan
Eventually he handed over his workshop to his older brother and came away to live in Lahore. He had decided now to devote himself solely to singing, and to make it in the new film industry.
In Lahore he resided at the old Sheranwala Gate, where he soon befriended and lured with his already-attractive voice a music director duo by the name of Asghar Ali Muhammad Hussain. They were composing the music for a film called Shikar, which was being produced by Eastern Studios in Karachi. One of the songs was given to Mehdi to perform. This was ‘Mere khayal-o-khaab ki duniya liye huay’. This song was a kind of break for him; it was followed by a set of songs for the film Kanwari Bewa and then for another few films produced in Karachi. After recording these he came back to Lahore and made his way into that city’s radio station.