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{{Infobox musical artist<br />
| name = Bashir Ahmed<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1939|11|18|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Kolkata]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|4|19|1939|11|18|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[Dhaka]], Bangladesh<br />
| genre = [[Ghazal]], [[playback singing]]<br />
| occupation = Singer, composer, lyricist<br />
| years_active = 1960-2014<br />
}}<br />
'''Bashir Ahmed''' (11 November 1939 – 19 April 2014)<ref name=pride>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/arts-entertainment/music/bashir-ahmed-taking-pride-our-past-1495729|title=Bashir Ahmed - Taking pride in our past|date=2017-11-24|work=The Daily Star|access-date=2017-11-23|language=en}}</ref> was a Bangladeshi [[playback singer]] who started his career from [[Pakistan film industry]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.fashioncentral.pk/celebrity_stories/the-legendary-singer-bashir-ahmed-passes-away/|title=The Legendary Singer Bashir Ahmed Passes Away|work=Fashion Central|access-date=2017-11-23|language=en-US}}</ref> Born in [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], he migrated to [[Dhaka]], [[East Pakistan|East Bengal]] after the Partition period in 1960 and started his singing career. He is known as ''East Pakistan's Ahmed Rushdi'' because his singing style is inspired by [[Ahmed Rushdi]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://reviewit.pk/bashir-ahmed-famous-singermusician-passed-away-in-dhaka/|title=Bashir Ahmed, famous singer,musician passed away in Dhaka|date=2014-04-26|work=reviewit.pk|access-date=2017-11-23|language=en-US}}</ref> He was awarded [[Ekushey Padak]] in 2005 by the [[Government of Bangladesh]] and [[Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer]] for his performance in the film ''Kokhono Megh Kokhono Bristi'' (2003).<ref name=ekushey>{{cite news|url= http://www.moca.gov.bd/site/page/c706da0c-29ee-4f0f-95d9-fa6705e19001/|script-title=bn:একুশে পদকপ্রাপ্ত সুধীবৃন্দ|access-date=23 August 2017|publisher=Government of Bangladesh|language=bn|trans-title=Ekushey Padak winners list}}</ref><ref name=nfa>{{cite web|url=http://www.fdc.gov.bd/site/page/f3bb17fe-d9ad-4b61-bd8a-5824262691ad/১৯৭৫-২০১২|script-title=bn:জাতীয় চলচ্চিত্র পুরস্কার প্রাপ্তদের নামের তালিকা (১৯৭৫-২০১২)|language=bn|trans-title=List of the winners of National Film Awards (1975-2012)|access-date=25 March 2019|publisher=Bangladesh Film Development Corporation|work=Government of Bangladesh}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Bashir Ahmed was born in [[Calcutta]] in 1939. He was accepted as a pupil by Ustad ''Vilayat Hussain'' at the age of 15. Later, he came to [[Bombay]], and became a student of [[Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan]].<br />
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Ahmed performed along with [[Geeta Dutt]].<ref name=pride/> Around the 1960s, when the film producer and owner of Gulistan Cinema Hall, Dossani invited [[Talat Mahmood]] and Ahmed to [[East Pakistan]] to perform, after their tour of [[Chittagong]] and [[Mymensingh]], Mahmood returned to India but Ahmed decided to stay back.<ref name=pride/><br />
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In Dhaka, his mentor and brother-in-law, Ishrat Kalkatvi introduced him to [[Robin Ghosh]]. Kalkatvi was writing songs for the film ''Talash'' (1963), although eventually, [[Suroor Barabankvi]] contributed more songs to the film. Ghosh was making tunes for the film. Ahmed sang some numbers for ''Talash'', including the soft romantic one, titled ''"Kuch Apni Kahiye Kuch Meri Suniye, Yeh Sham Yeh Tanhai Yun Chup To Na Rahiye"''. Ahmed sang another song titled ''Main Rickshawalla Matwala''. He had another duet in the film, ''"Tum Bhi Haseen Dil Bhi Jawan"''.<br />
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Ahmed was also a poet and a lyricist, with a pseudonym ''B. A. Deep''. Film-maker, ''Mustafiz'', they contacted Bashir and asked him to write a song for his film, ''Saagar (1965 film)'', which he did, titled ''Ja dekha pyar tera'', and sang it too. Similarly in Robin Ghosh's another lilting offering, ''[[Karwan]]'', in 1964, Bashir wrote and sang ''Jab Tum Akele Hoge Hum Yaad Aayenge''. He wrote film songs, as ''B. A. Deep'', and also continued to sing as Bashir Ahmed for films like ''Saagar'', ''Karwan'', ''Indhan'', ''[[Milan]] (1964 film)'',<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.citwf.com/film223981.htm | title=MILAN | work=citwf.com | access-date=22 July 2022}}</ref> ''Kangan'', ''[[Darshan (1967 film)|Darshan]] (1967)'', Soye nadiya Jaage Paani (1967) and Jahan Baje Shehnai (1968). The songs from the films were ''Yeh Sama Pyara Pyara, Yeh Hawaein Thandi Tthandi'' (singer [[Mala (Pakistani singer)|Mala]]), ''(Yeh mausam yeh mast nazare, pyar karo to inse karo)'', ''(Tumhare Liye Iss Dil Mein Itne Mohabbat Hai, Itne Mohabbat Kaun Karega Kahan Paoge Kis Dil Mein Hoge)'', ''(Din Raat Khayalon Mein Tujhe Yaad Karoonga, Par Naam Tera Leke Main Aawaz Na Doonga)'', ''(Hum Chale Chhor Kar Teri Mehfil Sanam, Dil Kahin Na Kahin To Behal Jayega)'', ''(Gulshan Mein Baharon Mein Tu Hai),'' and ''(Chun Liya Ik Phool Ko)'', with Madam [[Noor Jehan|Noor Jahan]].<br />
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In 1971, when the situation worsened in Pakistan, he was not encouraged in the industry as music directors considered him a pale version of Ahmed Rushdi (who remained the greatest singer in the history of [[Pakistani cinema]]) and the film [[Hill Station]]'s songs, namely ''Mera Dil Na Jaane Kabse Tera Pyar Dhoondta Hai'' and ''Mere Seene Par Sar Rakhdo'' remain his only contributions in this period.<ref name=death>{{cite news | url=http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2014/04/20/legendary-singer-bashir-ahmed-laid-to-eternal-rest | title=Bangladesh Legendary singer Bashir Ahmed laid to eternal rest | work=bdnews24.com | date=20 April 2014 | access-date=22 July 2022}}</ref><br />
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A film that was made on the Dhaka Debacle in the late 1970s, called ''Sangtarash'', also included his numbers, namely ''Bol Zara Kuch Duniya Wale'' and ''Mukhre Mein Chand'', but the film, despite pleadings of the film-maker to the military regime of [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq|Zia]], remained unreleased. So, he went back to Bangladesh in 1975 and continued his music career there.<br />
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==Personal life and death==<br />
Ahmed was married to Meena Bashir '''(Born:16 May, 1959 - Died: 8 August, 2014)''', a singer.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.prothomalo.com/special-supplement/article/412819/%E0%A7%A8%E0%A7%A6%E0%A7%A7%E0%A7%AA-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%9B%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2|script-title=bn:২০১৪: বিদায়ের মিছিল|work=Prothom Alo|language=bn|access-date=2020-02-08}}</ref> Together they had a daughter, Humayra and a son, Raja Bashir.<ref name=death/><br />
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Ahmed died on 19 April 2014, aged 74 at his residence in Mohammadpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He had been suffering from various diseases including cancer.<ref name=death/><br />
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==Film songs==<br />
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" width="100%" textcolor:#000;"<br />
|- style="background:#cfc; text-align:center;"<br />
| scope="col" width=21%| '''Year'''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://gaana.com/artist/bashir-ahmed|title=Bashir Ahmed songs in Bengali|accessdate=29 April 2022}}</ref><br />
| scope="col" width=21%| '''Film'''<br />
| scope="col" width=23%|'''Song'''<br />
| scope="col" width=20%|'''Composer(s)'''<br />
| scope="col" width=20%|'''Songwriter(s)'''<br />
| scope="col" width=21%|'''Co-artist(s)'''<br />
|-<br />
| 1969<br />
!''Qasm Us Waqt Ki'' (Urdu)<br />
| "Ek Main Hoon Ek Tum Ho"<br />
| Khan Ataur Rahman <br />
| Khan Ataur Rahman, Fayyaz Hashmi <br />
| Bashir Ahmed <br />
|-<br />
| rowspan=4| 1970<br />
! rowspan=4| ''Modhu Milon''<br />
| "Shoponero Moto Lage"<br />
| rowspan=4| Bashir Ahmed<br />
| rowspan=4| Syed Shamsul Haque, Masud Karim, Shahidul Islam <br />
| rowspan=3| solo <br />
|-<br />
| "Achenare Dekhe Keno"<br />
|-<br />
| "Shono Kotha Shono"<br />
|-<br />
| "Adhare Alo Hoye"<br />
| Shahnaz Rahmatullah <br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{IMDb name|3772171}}<br />
{{Bangladesh National Film Award Best Male Playback Singer}}<br />
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