![]() I was in Karachi and in the hotel book-shop there were several cassettes. I picked up this tape only a few weeks ago, believe it or not. Runa is able to voice the playful naughtiness of a dancing girl, the broken heart of ‘every girl’ and the raw rural brilliance of the village cowherdess. Runa sang film songs often as the female half of a duo with the iconic Ahmed Rushdi, but also sang ghazals and even folk music.Īs this tape demonstrates, a playback singer, though much maligned in some people’s minds, has to be very talented. ![]() A Bengali by birth like so many other great Pakistani film and pop stars, she is claimed by both countries and loved in many more. Between the late 1960s and early 1980s, Runa Laila was one of the most popular voices in Pakistan.
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