Swar Utsav is a live album

Live album

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 of the India

India

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n singer and Ghazal

Ghazal

The ghazal is a poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets and a refrain, with each line sharing the same meter. A ghazal may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain. The form is ancient, originating in 6th century...

 composer Hariharan

Hariharan (singer)

Hariharan , born 3 April 1955) is an Indian playback singer in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Bhojpuri and Telugu movies, an established ghazal singer, and one of the pioneers of Indian fusion music. His melody is strongly appreciated by the film fraternity...

, released in the year 2001

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. The album features 6 songs, all of them performed by Hariharan during a concert at India Gate

India Gate

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, New Delhi

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 in 2001.

The song Patta Patta Boota Boota is written by 18th century poet Mir Taqi Mir

Mir Taqi Mir

Khuda-e-sukhan Mir Taqi Mir , whose real name was Muhammad Taqi and takhallus was Mir , was the leading Urdu poet of the 18th century, and one of the pioneers who gave shape to the Urdu language itself...

. This song was composed by Hariharan itself. The other songs are written by Naushad Ali, Daag Dehlvi and Jan Nisar Akhtar

Jan Nisar Akhtar

Jan Nisar Akhtar was an important 20th century Indian poet of Urdu ghazals and nazms, and a part of the Progressive Writers' Movement, who was also a lyricist for Bollywood....

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Track listing

1. Ranj Ki Guftagu
2. Har Ek Rooh
3. Log Kehte Hain
4. Jahan Tak Yaadein
5. Tumhare Khat Mein
6. Patta Patta Boota Boota

External links

Hariji performing Patta Patta Boota Boota live