Death anniversary of singer, actor, producer, director, script writer, columnist, religious scholar and a protagonist of the development of Punjabi language and literature Inayat Hussain Bhatti was observed on Monday.

He was born in 1928 in Gujrat and moved to Lahore to pursue further studies. As fate would have it, he ended up singing for Radio Pakistan and subsequently, for the 1949 Punjabi hit ‘Pheray’.

He was a multi-talented distinguished singer, actor, director author, social leader, columnists, religious scholar and zakir.

He was interested in Sufi poetry since he was a child. Inayat sang for nearly 500 films, in both Urdu and Punjabi. His impressive discography includes 2,500 songs.

In 1997, he suffered an attack of paralysis, which impaired his speech and kept him bed-ridden for most of the time thereafter. He died on May 31, 1999.