Salim Iqbal

Salim Iqbal was a Two-Brothers-Team of Pakistani film music directors.The older brother Salim Hussain was born in 1931 at Lahore,Pakistan.Two years later,in 1933,the younger brother Iqbal Hussain was born in 1933 at Lahore.They were first trained in music by their musician father and later trained in classical music by Ustad Sardar Khan.The two brothers first worked with the renowned film music director Feroze Nizami for 10 years as his assistants before launching their own professional career in 1958 with their first Punjabi language film Sheikh Chilli (1958).Later they had musical mega-hit films like Kartar Singh (1959),Darwaza (1962),Baji (1963),Phanney Khan (1965),Aj Da Mahinwal (1973) and Pakeeza (1968).Their knowledge of classical & folk music of Pakistan enabled them to create popular super-hits in the Punjabi language films like Kartar Singh (1959)-one wedding song from this film became an often-played song at wedding parties for many years to come.The two brothers created an intensely emotional film song in the same film about the bloodshed caused by the partition of British India in 1947. This film song was written by the famous Indian poet Amrita Pritam.In 1959,people could emotionally relate to this song because they had directly gone thru those painful experiences only 12 years ago.Older brother Salim Hussain died on April 2,1996 and the younger brother Iqbal Hussain died a few days later on April 8,1996.Salim Iqbal team won many awards for their services to Pakistani public and their melodious music lives on.