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About Pankaj Udhas:
Pankaj Udhas (born 17 May 1951) is an Indian ghazal and playback singer. Pankaj Udhas was born in Jetpur in, Gujarat. He is the youngest of three brothers. His brothers, Nirmal Udhas and Manhar Udhas, are also singers. When Pankaj was a child, his father would play the dilruba, a stringed instrument. Seeing his and his brother's interest in music, his father enrolled them at the Sangeet Academy in Rajkot. Pankaj initially enrolled to learn the tabla but later began learning Hindustani vocal classical music from Ghulam Qadir Khan Sahab. Udhas then moved to Mumbai to train under the tutelage of Navrang Nagpurkar, a singer from the Gwalior Gharana.

He started his career by releasing a ghazal album titled Aahat in 1980 and later recorded many hit albums. He even appeared and sang in the film Naam by Mahesh Bhatt. His song "Chitthi Aayee Hai" became an instant hit. He did playback singing for many Hindi movies after that. Albums and live concerts around the globe brought him fame as a singer. In 2006, Pankaj Udhas was awarded Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian award.

A few words about Ghazal:
A ghazal is a form of Arabic poetry. Ghazals often convey spiritual messages (Sufi Kalam) or romantic love as a poetic expression of the pain of loss or separation from the beloved (Hizr) and the beauty of love and the associated pain. The origin of Ghazals traces its history to the poems addressed to a beloved by the narrator.

The Ghazal traces its origins back to 7th-century Arabic poetry. The Ghazal spread into South Asia in the 12th century with the influence of Sufi mystics and the courts of the new Islamic Sultanate. It is now the most prominent form of poetry in many languages of the Indian subcontinent.

The word Ghazal originates from the Arabic word Gazal, meaning to sweet-talk, flirt, or display amorous gestures. The poetic form derives its name from 'the wail of a wounded deer', which provides context to the theme of unrequited love common to many ghazals.

A ghazal commonly consists of five to fifteen couplets, called Sher. These are independent but are linked abstractly in a theme to make it poetry. Ghazal is a short poem with rhyming couplets called Sher. Most ghazals have between seven and twelve Shers. The first line of the couplet is called 'Radif', and the second, which ends with the same rhyming pattern, is referred to as the 'Qaafiyaa'.

The first 'Sher' in a ghazal is called the 'Matlaa'. The 'Matlaa' sets the tone of the Ghazal. The last couplet of the Ghazal is called the 'Maqtaa or Maktaa'. It is common in ghazals to include 'Takhallus', the name of 'Shayar' (Poet) in the maqtaa. It makes it more personal than the other couplets in a ghazal.

Unlike Ghazal, where each Sher is self-contained and independent from the others, Nazm couplets need a common theme or continuity.

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