A musical homage given to Late Shamshad Begum by Singer Simrat Chhabra, Composers Mohinder Sarin & Chhote Lal and other renowned persons of Delhi 

A Musical evening was organised in the memory of late Shamshad Begum at Epicentre, Apparel House, Gurgaaon. The event was organised by Amarjit Singh Kohli and his founded societies PECOBA and SAKHA. SAKHA Awards were also given to the important witnesses in the event.

The top singer of Northern India Simrat Chabbra gave a musical homage to Late Shamshad Begum by performing on her famous songs, “Kabhi aar kabhi Paar” , “Kahin pe nigaahein kahin pe nishaana”, “Saiyyan dil mein aana re” and many more. Singer Simrat Chabbra also launched her website www.simratchhabra.com at the event.

Some other renowned persons like Principal of DPS School, Dr. DR Saini, Dr. Rawail Singh (Secretary of Punjab Academy and composers Mohinder Sarin & Chhote Lal were present to witness the event and received SAKHA Awards,2013.

Other top singers like Deepak Kumar, Arun Goela, Tejpal Singh, Parminder Chaddha, Ragini Mathur, Jitendra shrivastava & Shailja Madhvan were also present and performed on some classic songs of Shamshad Begum.

Speaking on the occasion SAKHA Chairman and PECOBA General secretary Amarjit Singh Kohli said that that, “Shamshad Begum was highest paid singer of her time and even Lata Mangeshkar has sung in chorus in songs in which Shamshad begum was a lead singer. In the song “aji khushiyaan manaaye kyu na hum” from the film khidki 1948 which was set to music by C. Ramchander and the lead singer is Shamshad while Lata Mangeshkar is singing in chorus”.

Also, Journey of her singing life from 1937 in Lahore to Bombay was illustrated through slides and through recorded interviews with persons of film industry like Kamini Kaushal, Tabassum, Playback Singer Meena Kapoor, Shamshad begum’s daughter Usha Ratra, Wife of music director Husan Lal, Mrs Nirmala, Radio Ceylon announcer Gopal Sharma and others.