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Mohammed Zahur Khayyam

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Mohammed Zahur "Khayyam" Hashmi is known to the film circle as Khayyam. Khayyam is a music composer in Hindi movies. He is best known for his compositions in popular movies like ‘Umrao ‘Jaan,' ‘ Kabhie Kabhie Kabhie-Kabhie was a TV serial premiered on Zee TV >> Read More... ,' ‘Noorie,' ‘Trishul,' ‘ Razia Sultan Razia Sultan belongs to the genre of Indian histor >> Read More... ,' etc. Even today the songs ‘Kabhie Kabhie’ and ‘ Umrao Jaan Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ are pretty hummable. Especially, several songs from the film ‘Umrao Jaan’, sung by sung by Asha Bhosle Asha is considered to be the second greatest femal >> Read More... , are considered classics of film music: "Dil Cheez Kya Hai," "Justuju Jiski Thi," "In Ankhon Ki Masti", and "Yeh Kya Jagah Hai Doston." He also gave the famous title song in the movie ‘Kabhie Kabhie’ which was sung by Lata Mangeshkar Lata Mangeshkar, the veteran playback singer, had >> Read More... and Mukesh. For his composition in ‘Umrao Jaan’, Asha Bhosle got the National Film Award for best playback singer. This film also fetched Khayyam National Film Award for best music director. 

Khayyam is famous for composing songs on a note of classical music and ghazals that are always rich and beautiful. He has worked with lyricists like Gulzar, Sahir Ludhianvi Sahir Ludhianvi is one of the celebrated lyricists >> Read More... , Kaifi Azmi Kaifi Azmi is born as Sayyid Akhtar Hussein Rizvi. >> Read More... , Majrooh Sultanpuri Majrooh Sultanpuri was born in Sultanpur on Octobe >> Read More... . He also gave an opportunity for singers like Jagjit Kaur Jagjit Kaur is a singer who was born in 1931 in Pu >> Read More... , Bhupinder Singh Bhupinder Sing is a famous, popular, talented and >> Read More... , Mubarak Begum Begum Mubarak was a Hindi singer. He was born in 1 >> Read More... , Suman Kalyanpur Suman Kalyanpur is one of the most influential; si >> Read More... , Anwar, Sulakshana Pandit Sulakshana Pandit is an Indian actress and singer. >> Read More... , Nitin Mukesh Nitin Mukesh is a renowned playback singer who was >> Read More... , Pamela Chopra Pamela Chopra is a very famous playback singer in >> Read More... and Parveen Sultana Parveen Sultana is a leading Indian classical voca >> Read More... . The music composer was associated with Yash Chopra Film maker Yash Chopra is recognized as the ‘king >> Read More... ’s many movies and scored music for ‘Kabhie Kabhie’, ‘Trishul, ’Noorie’, ‘Nakhuda’ and ‘Sawaal’ etc. In film Trishul, the composer allowed South Indian singer Yesudas to sing with Lata Mangeshkar and Kishore Kumar Kishore Kumar is an Indian playback singer, who ha >> Read More... . In the film ’Noorie’, the title song "Aaja Re O Mere Dilbar Aa Ja" was very popular and it was sung by Nitin Mukesh and Lata Mangeshkar. Besides Yash Chopra movies, he also gave melodious compositions for movies like ‘Thodisi Bewafaii ‘ and ‘ Bazaar Click to look into! >> Read More... ’. In the film ‘Bazaar’ the song “Dikahyi Diye” sung by Lata Mangeshkar captured the mood beautifully. In the film ‘Thodisi Bewafaii’, Kishore Kumar sang one of Khayyam’s composed song ‘Hazar Rahen’ which showed Kishore Kumar’s versatility and Kishore won Filmfare award for the song.  

Khayyam got a break as an independent music composer in the film ‘Foot Path’ (1953) but his songs became very popular only with the release of ‘ Phir Subah Hogi Phir Subah Hogi is an Indian Television Show about >> Read More... ’ (1958).  He used Mukesh’s baritone voice in ‘Kabhie Kabhie’ and the songs from this film such as “Mein Pal Do Pal Ka Shayar Hun” and ' Kabhi Kabhi Kabhi Kabhi was a 2013 Pakistani drama serial aire >> Read More... Mere Dil Mein Khayal Ata Hai’ are evergreen. After the success of ‘Umrao Jaan’, Kamal Amrohi Syed Amir Haider Kamal Naqvi, better known as Kama >> Read More... asked Khayyam to compose music for his biopic film ‘Razia Sultan’ in which Lata was at her best for the song “Aye Dil-E-Nadan.” 

Khayyam is the recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in for his creativity in music in the year of 2007 and got Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010. The music composer was awarded Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2011. The music composer was born on 18 February 1927 in Punjab.

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Mohammed Zahur "Khayyam" Hashmi is known to famous Music composer of India. Who was born on February 18, 1927, in Rahon, Nawanshahr District, Punjab, British, India? He is a well-known for composing songs in Movies and Classical music’s as well as famous Ghazals. Mohammed Zahur Khayyam has a great career and started a career with through a movie FOOT PATH (1953) as an independent music composer but, his song does not get popularity.

He gets famous after the release of his next PHIR SUBHA HOGI (1958). After these, he never stops he gets more popularity with his famous songs like Umrao Jaan, kabhie kabhie, Noorie, Trishul, and Razia Sultan. He gave an opportunity for singers like Anwar, Nitin Mukesh, Mubarak Begum, Jagjit Kaur, and Phemala Chopra, etc. He gave the popular title song in the film ‘Kabhi Kabhi’ sung by Lata Mangeshkar and Mukesh.

The music composer was associated with Yash Chopra (The Popular Director-Producer of Bollywood) many movies like Kabhie Kabhie, Noorie, and Sawaal, etc. In film Trishul, starring SHAH RUKH KHAN, ANIL KAPOOR, JAKY SHROFF. Besides it, he also gave Famous compositions for movies like Thodisi Bewafaii and Bazaar. One more interesting Think the composer allowed South Indian singer Yesudas to sing with Legendary Lata Mangeshkar and Kishore Kumar. His career two best music composed movies are UMBAR JAAN, AND KABHIE KABHIE and won awards for these movies. Several songs from the film Umrao Jaan, sung by Asha Bhosle, she is a famous singer in the Bollywood.

He gave the famous Title song in Film Kabhie Kabhie which was sung by Lata Mangeshkar and Mukesh. The movie Umrao Jaan, ASHA BHOSLE got the National Film Award (Biggest Award of the film industry) for Best Playback Singer. This film also Brought Mohammed Zahur Khayyam National Film Award for Best Music Director. After the success of the film Umrao Jaan, Khayyam gets popularity in the industry and received many offers from producers for composing music in their movies such as Kamal Amrohi asked Khayyam to compose music for his film Razia Sultan. In this movie song, Aye Dil-E-Nadan gets the famous song by Lata Mangeshkar.

He also gave a famous title song in the Noorie movie and song gets popularity in the country. In the film Bazaar (hit movie of that time) the song DIKAHYI DIYE sung by Lata Mangeshkar and Song gets so popularity. In the film ‘THODISI BEWAFAII, Kishore Kumar sang a Mohammed Zahur Khayyam’s Music composed song and Kishore Kumar won Filmfare award for the song.

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