Mujeeb Aalam was a Pakistani playback singer

Playback singer

A playback singer is a singer whose singing is prerecorded for use in movies. Playback singers record songs for soundtracks, and actors or actresses lip-sync the songs for cameras, while the actual singer does not appear on screen.-South Asia:...

 who had a short film career. His singing style was a mixture of Mehdi Hassan

Mehdi Hassan

Mehdi Hassan is a Pakistani ghazal singer and a former playback singer for Lollywood. He is famously known as the 'King of ghazal' . He has ruled the Pakistan film industry along with Ahmed Rushdi...

 and Ahmad Rushdi's style. He sang dozen of hit songs in late 1960s and remained popular with cinema

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 viewers. However, he lost his popularity in mid 1970s as more versatile singers like Akhlaq Ahmed

Akhlaq Ahmed

Akhlaq Ahmed was a Pakistani playback singer. He was a member of a famous singing group with two other artists, singer Masood Rana and actor Nadeem. Akhlaq debuted as a singer in the 1973 film, Pazaib...

 and A Nayyar

A Nayyar

A Nayyar is a Pakistani ghazal/film Singer.He started singing in 1974, beginning his career from film Bahisht. His first film song Yunhin din cut jayen, yuhin shaam dhal jaye... was a duet song with Rubina Badar in film Bahisht , composed by A. Hameed...

 entered Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

 film industry

Film industry

The film industry consists of the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking: i.e. film production companies, film studios, cinematography, film production, screenwriting, pre-production, post production, film festivals, distribution; and actors, film directors and other film crew...

.

Career

Mujeeb Aalam was born in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India in an Urdu

Urdu

Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

 speaking family. He started his film career in an unreleased film "Nargis

Nargis

Nargis Dutt , born Fatima Rashid but known by her screen name, Nargis, was an Indian film actress. She is widely regarded as one of the greatest actresses in the history of Hindi cinema. She made her screen debut as a child in Talash-E-Haq in 1935, but her acting carer began in 1942 with Tamanna...

" in 1964 but "Jalwa" (1966) was his debut film with a super hit song: "koi ja ke unn se kehdey" which was picturised on Darpan. Unfortunately, he got a short film career and was ignored by film musicians from the mid 1970s. His song tally is under hundred film songs.Mujeeb Alam lived in the long shadow of highly successful Pakistani singers in the mid-sixties. However, soon he made his own distinct way into the world of music. Essentially he was a very humorous person. He loved to exchange jokes and made friends easily. The song which brought over night fame for him was "Wo meray samnay tasweer banay baithay hain" (film: Chakori:1967, director: Ehtesham, composer: Robin Ghosh

Robin Ghosh

Robin Ghosh is a musician and music composer. Famous playback singer Ahmed Rushdi has a notable contribution to Ghosh's success...

) Mujeeb won the Nigar

Nigar Awards

The Nigar Awards, the official awards of Pakistani film industry, are the oldest awards to honour the show business personalities of Pakistan. The awards were first introduced in 1958 by Ilyas Rasheedi, the editor of weekly Nigar magazine, with a purpose to recognize the achievements of those who...

 Award for this song. Moreover, Mujeeb was highly successful in romantic scores as well. He recorded songs with almost all female singers of his time and all those duets were mega-hits.

Death

Mujeeb Aalam was retired from films since 1979. He used to participate in private shows and musical programmes which were broadcast from Pakistan television and other channels. Mujeeb resided in Block J, North Nazimabad, Karachi

Karachi

Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...

, for quite some time. On Wednesday June 2, 2004, he suffered a heart attack in Karachi, which ended his life. He was 56 years of age.