अहमद दिलावर

Ahmed Dilawar was an actor-singer, and occasional lyricist, associated with Wadia Movietone's stunt and action pictures of the late 1930s and early 1940s. In Homi Wadia's jungle adventure Toofani Tarzan (1937) he sang two of the film's three songs under composer Master Mohammed, including "Bhooli Hui Yaad Aayi Kahani". The same year, in the studio's Hurricane Hansa (1937), he performed the rare early-talkie qawwali "Tum Jo Roothe To Dushman Zamana Hua", and song records of the period also credit him as lyricist on numbers such as "Premi Jag Men" and "Ek Hai Ek Men Duniya Sari". In Hind Ka Lal (1940) he sang three songs — among them the title song "Mubarak Ho Yeh Hind Ka Lal" — to the music of Madhulal Damodar Master, and he continued acting into the 1940s in films like Sher-E-Baghdad (1946). As with many performers of the stunt-film circuit, his personal details went unrecorded, and he survives today through these scattered song and screen credits.