Inayat Hussain Bhatti
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Bhatti in 1995
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| Background information | |
| Born | 12 January 1928 |
| Origin | Gujrat, Punjab, British India |
| Died | 31 May 1999 (aged 71) Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan |
| Genres | Folk, Pakistani music |
| Occupation(s) | singer, film actor, film producer |
| Years active | 1949–1997 |
Inayat Hussain Bhatti (Urdu: عنایت حسین بھٹی) (1928–1999) was a Pakistani film playback singer, film actor, producer, director, script writer, social worker, columnist, religious scholar and a promoter of the development of the Punjabi language and literature.
Bhatti was born in Gujrat on 12 January 1928 in a Punjabi Rajput family.
In December 1948, he came to Lahore with the intention to study law and initially stayed at MAO College Lahore hostel in Lahore. A few months after his arrival in Lahore, he did his first performance on stage in the YMCA Hall, Lahore. After his YMCA auditorium performance, Bhatti accompanied Ijaz Gilani to Radio Pakistan, Lahore, where he met and became a formal pupil of Master Niaz Hussain Shami, a composer then working for Radio Pakistan in Lahore. It was his association with and training under Master Niaz Hussain Shami, which facilitated Bhatti Sahib's participation in regular radio programs as a singer. He sometimes used to accept character roles in plays broadcast by the Lahore station of Radio Pakistan. Rafi Peer, a play- writer, asked him to be the 'hero' in his play Akhhian (Eyes).
Bhatti was introduced to composer Ghulam Ahmed Chishti by Master Shami in 1949, who offered him an opportunity to record a few songs in producer-director Nazir Ahmed Khan's film Pheray (1949). Bhatti became an almost overnight celebrity . Producer-director Nazir offered Bhatti Sahib the leading role in his Punjabi film Heer (1955) against Swaran Lata.
He was the first superstar playback singer of Pakistan after its independence in 1947. His career spanned almost five decades. In 1997, he suffered an attack of paralysis, which impaired his speech and kept him bed-ridden for most of the time thereafter. A few days before his death, the 71-year-old artiste was taken to his native home Gujrat, where on 31 May 1999, He died and was buried next to his parents.
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