TBT Report

Legendary singer Runa Laila started her career in 1965. She played two songs in the Pakistani film Jugnu. Her first song was “Gudiya Si Munni Meri Bhaiya Ki Pyari” and the second song was “Marne Bhi Nahi Aasan”, which was a love song.

Four new songs composed by the legendary singer of the Subcontinent RunaLiala will be published on her birthday on November 17.
Renowned music station Dhruba Music Station will release these songs to mark the popular singer’s birthday.

The songs are: “Kothair ekhe chhoa amai”, “Eidekha shesh dekha”, “Ami keno tomari hoye gechhi” and “Akashe megh jomechhe e moner megh dekhoni”. Popular singers Ankhi Alamgir, Zinia Zafrin Luipa, TaniL aila and Haimanti Rakshit Das have lent their voices to the songs respectively.
Music arranged by Raja Kaasheff, eminent lyricist, producer and filmmaker Gazi Mazharul Anwar and noted lyricist-journalist KabirBakul have written lyrics of the songs.

At age 14, she made her breakthrough with the song “Unki Nazron Sey Mohabbat Ka Jo Paigham Mila” for Pakistani film ‘Hum Dono’ in 1966. She’s performed in lots of different languages. She rendered songs in 17 languages including her native Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Gujarati, Pashto, Baluchi, Arabic, Persian, Malay, Nepalese, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, French and English.