Lahore (May 31, 2017): The 18th death anniversary of singer, actor, producer, director, script writer, columnist, religious scholar and a protagonist of the development of Punjabi language and literature Inayat Hussain Bhatti is being observed on Today.
After graduation from Gujrat, Bhatti came to Lahore in December 1948 with the intention to study law.
His destiny however had different plans for him, A few months after his arrival in Lahore, he made his first performance on stage in the YMCA Hall, Lahore, in a play which focused on the freedom struggle of Kashmir. Later, Inayat Hussain Bhatti came to Radio Pakistan Lahore, where he met and became a formal pupil of Master Niaz Hussain Shami, a composer then working for Radio Pakistan.
This facilitated Bhatti’s participation in regular radio programs as a singer. He sometimes used to accept character roles in plays broadcast by the Lahore station of Radio Pakistan. once he was memorizing some lines while having tea at the radio canteen when Rafi Peer, a play writer, overheard him. He went up to him and asked whether he would acts as the Hero in his play Akhian (Eyes). this was a Godsend for Bhatti who readily accepted the offer and acted to Peer’s satisfaction.
Bhatti was introduced to composer Ghulam Ahmed Chishti by Master Shami in 1949, who offered him an opportunity to record a few songs in producer-director Nazir’s film Phairey (1949). The song “aakhiyan laanveen naan”, a duet with Munnawer Sultana for that film was an instant hit.
Other songs of that movie, includes the solo recorded in the voice of Inayat Hussain Bhatti, also won wide popularity, and are still remembered for their lively compositions, which brimmed with abundance sonic enchantment. After his debut in the films as play back singer, Inayat Hussain Bhatti’s vocal recourses were successfully employed by several music directors. including Ghulam Haider, Master Inayat Hussain and Rashid Attrey, for recording their songs in a number of films.
Spotting his histrionic talent producer-director Nazir offered Bhatti sahib the leading role in his Punjabi film Heer (1955) against Sawaran lata, which he enacted successfully and to the satisfaction of the inveterate producer, director, actor Nazir. The film did good business at the box office, for several decades thereafter; it was a complete success story for the late singer and actor Inayat Hussain Bhatti.
Bhatti was the first superstar play back singer of Pakistan after its independence in 1947. His career spanned for almost five decades, In 1997 he suffered an attack of paralysis, which impaired his speech and kept him bed-ridden for most of the time thereafter.
A few days before his death, the septuagenarian artiste was taken to his native home Gujrat, where, on 31 May 1999, He was plucked away from our midst by the inexorable angel of death and way laid to rest beside his late parents.
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