If you want to see the practical expression of the tone, how it reaches the heart and the impression of the dialogue, then there is hardly anyone who is a bigger symbol than Zia Muhyiddin.
The Indian subcontinent has nurtured the great personalities of the arts, writers, actors, poets, directors, dancers, painters and many others. In the field of music, there have been such personalities that the earth has hardly seen such heavenly people anywhere else.
Without exaggeration, Zia Muhyiddin was the person who identified Sadakari as a genre of speech. Good sounding and the ability to create an impression with sound may be the distinction of a sound artist, Zia was such a person whose work was considered a source of respect for the art of sound.
Very few people know that this clean, crisp and raspy accent of Urdu language was the juice of a Punjabi.
The owner of this nippy, minimalistic and transparent voice of Urdu was born in the town of Lyallpur in Punjab in 1931. It was a hot day on June 20. The stay of this family in Faisalabad was not long. The family was part of the Punjabi Chawla dynasty of Rohtak (present-day Haryana). Zia Muhyiddin’s hearings both inside and outside the house taught him to use the Punjabi accent.
Father Khadim Mohiuddin, a playwright, musician and poet was associated with various theaters. Zia Muhyiddin also declared the same way as the way to the destination after seeing the behavior of the word, the tone of voice and pronunciation in the house.
Never before had a man stood on a stage reading from old books and a crowd of thousands had sat down to listen to him.
From 1953 to 1956, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. From the beginning of his work in the theatre, he got an opportunity to act in the famous play ‘Julius Caesar’. From where he was selected by London’s most famous theater West End, where he showed the essence of acting and voice acting in a play based on the novel A Passage to India.
But perhaps few people know that Zia Mohiuddin has made his mark as an actor in the Hollywood masterpiece ‘Lawrence of Arabia’. He played the role of Lawrence’s desert guide Taffas. Who is killed for the crime of drinking water from a non-tribal’s well.
The number of his notable films is around half a dozen.
In the last year of the 60s, Zia Mohiuddin started a program ‘Zia Mohiuddin Show’ on PTV. This program was a serious and thorough introduction to the people who achieved excellence in knowledge, literature and arts.
In the 70s he moved to Britain and hosted the weekly program ‘Here and Now’ on Central Television for four years.
His command of the English language and his performance in various genres of speech gave Zia Muhyiddin mastery over the vocal bombast. Coincidentally, the attribute of impression in conversation with voice fluctuations is a common value of English and Urdu languages. Therefore, to express this reach, he used all the genres of Urdu speech.
What should be the standard of use of Urdu poetry, it was determined by his education. But his special field was to make prose verses alive with his voice.
Apart from this, another honor of his is that he played an important role in bringing the high Urdu literature to the public. Asad Muhammad Khan, Meeraji, N.M. Rashid, Ibn-e-Insha, Rasheed Ahmad Siddiqui, Mirza Farhat Baig and many other writers like him brought life out of the lifeless pages of the book with the help of his unparalleled recitation.
Their pronunciation, payment and style are your example. It has the status of an organization of Urdu learners. His crooning voice, rasp, sustain and delivery were particularly suited to the genre. There were other singers who made an impression with the bombardment of sound, including artists like Talat Hussain, Firdous Jamal, Tariq Aziz and Kamal Ahmad Rizvi, but it was only Zia Mohiuddin’s field to make an impression through silence.
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He not only creates the magic of the touch of his voice while reading, but also creates an impression with the silence in accordance with the writing, says to stop in the flow of reading and where to highlight the feeling of taking a breath or a long pause. It was their part to use. His ability sometimes evoked humor, sometimes sadness, surprise and sarcasm.
According to Mohsen Naqvi:
There was a river of lost voice that was a person
The juice of sound, how it holds the flavor
Zia Muhyiddin declared his victory in every field of classical prose, satire, fiction, dialogue, drama and monologue in literary prose.
His voice spelled in some masterpiece documentaries of Pakistan Television. A voice like his may not be available again for documentaries.
He traveled the world and mesmerized the audience with his artistry. Undoubtedly, he was a great voice of Urdu poetry and prose and a representative voice of Urdu.
This river of sound today took on a complete impression of silence. He also had the power to create an impression in silence.
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2024-08-21 23:18:53
