Samprasad Majumdar on Monday, February 02, 2015
WHAT A WONDERFUL MELLOW IN THE LINE OF OF THE RECORDED VERSION OF MAESTRO
K. L. SAIGAL.
MAESTRO JAYANMAY MITRA (JAGAMOHAN) - WITH HIS INCOMPARABLE SWEETNESS AND
EMOTION - HAD SUNG THIS AS HIS LAST SONG. THIS IS A PERENNIAL PIECE OF
NAWAAB WAZED ALI SHAH, ABDICATED, AS HE WAS TO LEAVE HIS PALACE FOR EVER.
MAESTRO JAGAMOHAN HAD THUS ENTHRALLED A BLESSED AUDIENCE OF TORONTO,
ONTARIO, CANADA, DURING 1984.
WE HAD LEARNT FROM MAESTRO JAGAMOHAN THAT MAESTRO SAIGAL HAD APPROACHED
HIS GURUJEE TO LEARN THIS SONG IN BHARAVEE, BEFORE RECORDING IT. THEN
JAGAMOHANJEE HIMSELF LEARNT THIS SAME SONG FROM HIS REVERENT GURUJEE . 

Yamini Kunder on Monday, August 20, 2012
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah the last nawab of Awadh, wrote this thumari “Babul
mora naihar chhooto hi jaye” in 1856, while he was being sent to exile in
Metiabruz [because of an Earthen Dome (raised platform), people called it
"Matiya Burj"] along the banks of the River Hooghly 3 or 4 miles south of
Kolkata. He expressed his pain of parting in his lyric-‘Babul mora naihar
chhuto jaye’, which was indeed a soulful depiction of the agony of his
heart.

gopal sinha on Sunday, March 16, 2014
जगजीत और चित्रा ने पूरी भावुकता और संवेदना के साथ बहुत ही सुंदर ढ़ंग से
अपने तरीके से गाया है !

VK malik on Wednesday, August 13, 2014
WHAT A PERFORMANCE BY THIS PAIR. SHARMILA TOUCHING FLOWER WITH HER FACE
LOOKS SO NATURAL AND PRETTY. EXCELLENT !!!

Nasreen Quadri on Saturday, September 28, 2013
I know that this beautiful ghazal / thumri was written by the last Moghul
emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar when he was being exiled to Rangoon [ present
Yangon]. And during his exile where he died, he wrote one more
ghazal...Lagta nahi hai dil mera ujde dayaar mey, Kiski bani hai
aalam-e-napaayedaar mey!