The Sufi qawwali from Barsaat Ki Raat, “Na Toh Caravan Ki Talaash Hai,” is a fifteen-minute masterpiece that epitomizes ...
On the surface, PL Santoshi’s 1960 film Barsaat Ki Raat looks like just another love story shadowed by social disapproval. What sets it apart, however, is how Urdu poetry and qawwalis are not just ...