Music of Pakistan - Filmi

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Pakistan's film industry known as "Lollywood" is based in Lahore. One of the most famous singers of the Pakistan film industry is Noor Jehan (Malika-e-Tarranum). Noor Jehan had a brief and successful acting career before devoting herself completely to music. She sang extensively for Pakistani films and also sang Ghazals, folk songs and patriotic songs (milli naghmay) for Pakistan television. The most famous male singer of Pakistan film industry is Ahmed Rushdi (Melody Prince) who is also known as Magician of voice. Rushdi is one of the most versatile singers of south asia and his songs had a great impact on Indian and Bangaladesh music industry. He ruled film industry for thirty years. Ahmed Rushdi undisputedly remains the only playback singer of Pakistan who was master of all moods and expressions. Until the 1970s Pakistani film music enjoyed a robust period of creative activity with a great number of songs acquiring popularity across the sub-continent. The major music directors of this period (with the noted exception of Khawaja Khurshid Anwar) were mostly rababis. Some of the great names were: Master Inayat Hussain, Ghulam Ahmed Chishti, Rasheed Attre, Nisar Bazmi, Sohail Rana, Ustad Tasadduq, Amjad Bobby, M Ashraf, Master Abdullah, Feroz Nizami, Tufail Farooqi, Robin Ghosh and Ustad Nazar. During the early 1980s Urdu film and music quality declined as the result of various factors. The dominance of trend-setting music directors who had experience of seasoned pre-partition artists declined and they were replaced by a new and younger generation who tapped the Punjabi film market.