{"id":61364,"date":"2025-03-15T13:30:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/?p=61364"},"modified":"2025-03-15T13:30:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T08:00:55","slug":"akhtar-conveys-gratitude-for-the-opportunity-to-hear-khans-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/akhtar-conveys-gratitude-for-the-opportunity-to-hear-khans-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Akhtar conveys gratitude for the opportunity to hear Khan&#8217;s music."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned scriptwriter and lyricist Javed Akhtar has publicly conveyed his admiration for the Pakistani vocalist Moazzam Ali Khan, extending an invitation for him to perform several songs. Akhtar&#8217;s appreciation was sparked by a video showcasing Khan&#8217;s performance, which has garnered significant attention on social media, with many observers noting his vocal similarities to the late ghazal maestro Jagjit Singh. In a post shared on X on Friday, Akhtar expressed his delight upon hearing Khan&#8217;s rendition of the beloved song &#8220;Yeh Nain Dare Dare,&#8221; originally performed by Hemant Kumar in the 1964 film &#8220;Kohraa.&#8221; The esteemed 80-year-old lyricist remarked, &#8220;Just now I watched a gentleman Muazzam saheb on YouTube singing \u2018yeh nain deray deray\u2019. Could he please contact me? I would be grateful if he could sing a few songs for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned scriptwriter and lyricist Javed Akhtar has publicly conveyed his admiration for the Pakistani vocalist Moazzam Ali Khan, extending an invitation for him to perform several songs. Akhtar&#8217;s appreciation was sparked by a video showcasing Khan&#8217;s performance, which has garnered significant attention on social media, with many observers noting his vocal similarities to the late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9852,14176,25,19,3],"tags":[39459,30823,30824,39460,39450,39453,39456,39454,39457,39461,39455,39451,39449,39458,39452],"class_list":["post-61364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-cover-story","category-english-news","category-entertainment","category-world","tag-best-of-javed-akhtar","tag-farhan-akhtar","tag-javed-akhtar","tag-javed-akhtar-best-shayari","tag-javed-akhtar-interview","tag-javed-akhtar-latest","tag-javed-akhtar-latest-news","tag-javed-akhtar-lyrics","tag-javed-akhtar-lyrics-writing-secret","tag-javed-akhtar-mimicry","tag-javed-akhtar-news","tag-javed-akhtar-poetry","tag-javed-akhtar-shayari","tag-javed-akhtar-shayri","tag-lyricist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61366,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61364\/revisions\/61366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozinews.in\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}