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Irfan talks to then CM Delhi Sheila Dikshit, 2012

Another episode of Yaadon Ke Saaye where we take parliamentarians and other politicians down the memory lane and talk their impressions related to films and film culture.

Recorded in January 2012

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Irfan's collection

01 Zikra uss parivash ka

02 Mere humnafas mere humnava

03 Ishq mein ghairat e jazbat

04 Mere naseeb ne jab mujhse inteqam liya

05 Ab to yahi hain dil se duayein

06 Ujra aane mein bhi hai

07 Kiss se poochhein humne kahan wo chehra e roshan dekha hai

08 Unki berukhi mein bhi iltifat shamil hai Ameer Qazalbash

09 Zindagi ka dard lekar inqlab aaya to kya Shakil Badayuni

10 Rahe ashiqi ke maare rahe aam tak na pahunche

11 Laayi hayat aaye

12 Sham e firaq ab na poochh

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Nine tracks | Digitized from Cassette by Irfan

01. Aye akele aanewale_Talib Husain Warsi_Naza Sholapuri

02. Chadhta sooraj dheere dheere_Aziz Nazan_Qaisar Ratnagirvi

03 Dekh tamasha lakdi ka_Yusuf Azad and Talib Husain Warsi_Zafar Gorakhpuri

04 Hamein to loot liya_Ismail Azad Qawwal_Bulo C.Rani

05 Jhoom barabar jhoom_Aziz Nazan_Naza Sholapuri

06 Kaise besharm ashiq hain ye aaj ke_Ysuf Azad and Rashida Khatoon_Jai kumar

07 Maati ke putle tujhe_Abdul Rahman Kachwala_Self

08 Malan dil mein basa le_Yusuf Azad_Tabish Kanpuri

09 Ud jayega ek din panchhi_Prahlad Shinde_Aktar Warsi Lakhnavi

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Recorded in Goa, 2014 this TV interview was first shown on Rajya Sabha TV.

Irfan talking to the actor Seema Biswas in the longest running celebrity talk show Guftagoo

About Guftagoo Home - Guftagoo With Irfan

Guftagoo (Conversations) is India’s only uninterrupted, unscripted and unhurried celebrity talk show. Running since 2011 the show has a rich repository of 400+ TV shows varying from 30 to 160 minutes.

It’s a unique show interviewing distinguished personalities from various fields of arts and culture. The celebrated anchor Syed Mohd Irfan is host of the show whose distinctive style of conversation forms the essence of the show allowing guests to express their raw emotions. The in-depth interviews provide the viewers an intimate look in the inner worlds of the guests invited to the show. It helps them understand the guest`s life experiences, emotional conflicts, inspirations and struggles that brought out the artist in them and shaped the way they perceive the world.

This documentation of the life journeys of various artists, also serves as a popular audio-visual archive for anthropological studies.

Earlier aired on Rajya Sabha TV for a decade by the name of Guftagoo, show presented to its viewers, the journeys of  personalities from various fields, such as Tom Alter, Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, Irrfan Khan, Jaya Bachchan, Naseeruddin Shah, John Abraham, Jackie Shroff, Nandita Sen, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Milkha Singh, and Shyam Benegal to name a few. Stay tuned.

Audio bounce of a TV interview.

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Recorded in Delhi, 2019 this TV interview was first shown on Rajya Sabha TV.

Irfan talking to the Actor Manav Kaul in the longest running celebrity talk show Guftagoo

About Guftagoo

Guftagoo (Conversations) is India’s only uninterrupted, unscripted and unhurried celebrity talk show. Running since 2011 the show has a rich repository of 400+ TV shows varying from 30 to 160 minutes.

It’s a unique show interviewing distinguished personalities from various fields of arts and culture. The celebrated anchor Syed Mohd Irfan is host of the show whose distinctive style of conversation forms the essence of the show allowing guests to express their raw emotions. The in-depth interviews provide the viewers an intimate look in the inner worlds of the guests invited to the show. It helps them understand the guest`s life experiences, emotional conflicts, inspirations and struggles that brought out the artist in them and shaped the way they perceive the world.

This documentation of the life journeys of various artists, also serves as a popular audio-visual archive for anthropological studies.

Earlier aired on Rajya Sabha TV for a decade by the name of Guftagoo, show presented to its viewers, the journeys of  personalities from various fields, such as Tom Alter, Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, Irrfan Khan, Jaya Bachchan,Naseeruddin Shah, John Abraham, Jackie Shroff, Nandita Sen, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Milkha Singh, and Shyam Benegal to name a few. Stay tuned.

Audio bounce of a TV interview.

The entire Guftagoo playlist on YouTube Link

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This is a complete recording of a Clubhouse event organized by the club Study Circle पाठशाला on 28th of November 2021 The event started at 6 PM with an introduction by the Club Founder and Moderator Ravindra Patwal.

Presented/Curated by Irfan with the help of Farah

Image Courtesy: Study Circle पाठशाला CH Cover Art

Film Hits by Anwar

Photo: Irfan ©2016

01 Track 1 Ei dehi motite khabo Gulam Fakir

02 Track 2 Shri Madhusudana Akkash Fakir

03 Track 3 Allah hu allah hu Babu Fakir

04 Track 4 Aamar data maulana Armaan Fakir

05 Track 5 Akashta kapchilo kyan gulam fakir

06 Track 6 Parer kandari Akkash Fakir

07 Track 7 Aami ke ta janle Aarman Fakir

08 Track 8 Khwaja baba Babu Fakir

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Singer MD Hemant Kumar's films hits

Songs (IPTA) of Protest from 1940s and 50s

Sumangala Damodaran

01 Jaane Waale Sipahi Se Poochho | Makhdoom Mohiuddin

02 Panchhapanthathe | Ponkunnam Damodaran

03 Aar Koto Kaal

04 Din Khoon Ke Hamaare | Unknown

05 Kinu Phol Dassan Dukh Dard Saiyon

06 Suno Suno | Prem Dhawan

07 Balikudeerangale | Vayalar Rama Varma

08 Phiraiya De De | Binoy Roy

09 Jhoom Jhoom Ke | Prem Dhawan

About Sumangala Damodaran

Dr. Sumangala Damodaran is a Professor of Economics, Development Studies and Popular Music Studies at Ambedkar University Delhi. After seventeen years of teaching Economics at Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi and a year of working with  the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (the Arjun Sengupta Committee) of the Government of India, she joined AUD and was involved in the setting up of the  School of Development Studies and the School of Culture and Creative Expressions. As a development economist, her research and publications fall broadly within the rubric of Industrial and Labour studies and more specifically on Industrial Organisation, Global Value Chains, the Informal Sector, Labour and Migration. Apart from her academic involvements as an economist and social scientist, she is also a singer and composer. Her archiving and documentation of the musical tradition of the Indian People’s Theatre Association from the 1940s and 1950s has resulted in a book titled "The Radical Impulse: Music in the Tradition of the IPTA"  and  an album titled ‘Songs of Protest’ and  she has performed from the documented repertoire extensively in different parts of the country and abroad. She has also collaborated with poets and musicians from South Africa around a project titled ‘Insurrections' which has resulted in four albums. She is currently engaged in researching the relationship between music and migration, particularly of women in slavery and servitude across centuries and across vast tracts of the globe that were linked through long distance trade in commodities and symbolic goods. This work is being done in collaboration with several universities in Africa and Asia.