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Description In 1992, Akhtar started her own production company, Last Minute Productions, to produce and promote her third album, Pukar. Pukar experimented with Persian, Indian and African instruments such as the shenai, oud and the African marimba and fused Indian music with light jazz instruments such as the saxphone, bass guitar, violin and keyboards. The title track "Pukar" was released in America but it was in Japan that it gained commercial success. The song was used for a year long television commercial for Fuji Bank. Pukar was re-released in 1998 on Miles Copeland's label, Mondo Melodia. |
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Recordings Najma Akhtar has released six albums to date, including: Ghazals by Najma in 1988, Qareeb in 1989, Atish in 1990, Pukar in 1992, Forbidden Kiss: the Songs of S.D. Burman in 1996, and her latest release, Vivid in 2002. |