The late Hidayatullah was known as'Muhammad Rafi of Pashto music'
Hidayatullah, the great Pashto artist of film, Television and radio, who was known as'Muhammad Rafi'of Pashto music, passed away on Sunday after a long illness. He was 79 times old.
According to his family, he'd been in a coma for nearly a time.
Inayatullah, the eldest son of the departed, told the BBC that he'd been missing for some times and couldn't fete anyone.
During this time he also stopped eating and drinking.
According to his son, he was treated regularly but he couldn't recover and passed away history.
Hidayatullah belonged to Dak Basiud area of Nowshera quarter where he was born in 1940. Still, his family latterly moved to Peshawar.
He registered from Edwards College, Peshawar.
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He latterly joined the Department of Agriculture and continued to serve as a Elderly Clerk in the Department of Agriculture until 2000.
It's said that Hidayatullah was fond of singing since nonage. He frequently sang at the request of preceptors at academy.
Still, his cultural career began in the sixties when he started recording songs for Radio Pakistan.
Author of four books on Pashto music, prominent intellectual and minstrel Laiqzada Laiq says that Ustad Hidayatullah was a big name in the golden age of Pashto music who had a formal education in music.
He said that during his cooperation with Radio Pakistan, he frequently met Hidayatullah and recorded numerous songs for him for the radio.
According to him, Hidayatullah wasn't only impressed by the great Indian songster Muhammad Rafi but his sardonic voice was analogous to his.
That's why he latterly came known as Mohammad Rafi in Pashto.
Laiqzada says that when Pashto flicks started in the 1970s, Hidayatullah and Khayal Mohammad were the only vocalizers who sang songs for early flicks, which latterly brought these two artists to the heights of fame.
According to him, the first Pashto film was being made by Yusuf Khan Sherbano, also Hidayatullah was in Kabul at that time.
He was transferred a telegram to return, so he incontinently reached Karachi where he recorded the song. And when the film was released, his name started resounding everyplace.
According to Laiqzada Laiq, Hidayatullah was given the status of Category A songster in Radio Pakistan from the veritably morning, although in the morning, every artist is placed in B and C order, and Is given.
But because he was hardworking and devoted to his work, he was originally placed in the A order.
Ustad Hidayatullah has won numerous honors in his cultural career gauging nearly forty times.
During his cultural career, he visited numerous Arab and European countries and entered accolades from his suckers.
Piecemeal from Pashto, Ustad Hidayatullah has also sung Urdu, Hindko and Persian songs.
Close Musketeers of the departed say that Hidayatullah recorded about 500 hit songs during his career which are still popular among the people.
His notorious film songs include'Rasha O Rasha Khushi Maidan De','Manzil De Tolo Ude Kho Safar Jada Jada'and'Yama Deh Truck Motorist'.
Syed Hassan Ali Shah, a friend of the late and elderly anchor person, says that Hidayatullah was a veritably funny and elegant man.
"Unfortunately, in the world of showbiz, when someone is on the rise, everyone is ahead of him, but when the career is over, everyone turns down,"he said.
The same thing happed with Hidayatullah.
He said that no important name of showbiz world was seen in the burial of the departed and no bone helped him financially during his illness.
Hidayatullah had two marriages and left before two widows, three daughters and two sons.