Jagjit Singh, Mehdi Hasan, Iqbal Bano, Farida Khanum, Ghulam Ali, Abida Parveen, Chhaya Ganguli
About Ghazal Ghazal is a poetic form consisting of couples with a rhyme and a refrain where each line shares the same poetic metre. This form is considered to have originated from ancient Persian verses in the 10th century. Ghazal can also be defined as a collection of sher-s which is a poem of two lines. A sher is a combination of ‘Beher’, ‘Radif’, ‘Kaafiyaa’, ‘Matla’ and Maqta’
Beher - It is the Metre or the length of the sher thus all the sher-s in a ghazal must be of the same beher.
Radif - In a ghazal the second line of all the sher-s ends with the same set of words. This repetition of common words is the radif of the ghazal.
Kaafiyaa - Kaafiyaa is the rhyming pattern, which all the words before radif should have.
Matla - The First sher in the ghazal has radif in both the lines. This sher is called the matla of the ghazal. There can be more than one matla in a ghazal. In such a case the second one is called Matla-e-saani or Husn-e-matla.
Maqta - A Shayar (a poet who writes the sher) usually has an alias name which he uses in a sher towards the end of a ghazal. This last sher of a ghazal is known as the maqta.
Ghazal is a poetic form consisting of couples with a rhyme and a refrain where each line shares the same poetic metre. This form is considered to have originated from ancient Persian verses in the 10th century. The Ghazal compositions characterize expressions of love separation and loneliness. Thus in its style and content it is a genre which showcases an extraordinary variety of expression around its central theme of love and separation.
It is considered by many to be one of the principal poetic forms among others. Aadab Arz Hai features the best ever collection of the most popular ghazals sung by the world renowned ghazal legends such as Jagjit Singh, Mehdi Hasan, Iqbal Bano Farida Khanum, Ghulam Ali, Parveen & Chhaya Ganguli.
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