ISLAMABAD: The birth anniversary of renowned singer, actor, director, producer, and protagonist of the development of the Punjabi language Inayat Hussain Bhatti observed on Friday.
Bhatti was born on January 12, 1928, in Gujrat. Later he moved to Lahore to pursue further studies.
He started singing for Radio Pakistan and subsequently, entered the film industry as a playback singer in 1949 through the Punjabi hit ‘Pheray’.
He was a multi-talented person who distinguished himself as singer, actor, director author, social leader and columnist.
He was also interested in Sufi poetry since his childhood days. Inayat Hussain Bhatti sang for nearly 500 films, in both Urdu and Punjabi languages. He overall sang 2,500 songs.
In the 1990s, he hosted a series of TV programmes titled Ujala on the Sufi saints of Pakistan, and also wrote its scripts. The series provided the viewers a look in his Sufistic leanings, and the lives and works of the Sufi poets.
In 1997, he suffered a stroke, which affect his speech and kept him bedridden for most of the time thereafter. He died on May 31, 1999.
