Sardar Malik

Sardar Malik happens to be the father of Anu Malik Anu Malik is considered as one of the most famous >> Read More... whom we all know as the most dominant composer of the 1990's. He has been the winner of several Filmfare awards (Sardar Malik won none), judged reality music shows and was quite a prominent figure in the show-biz. Sardar Malik was never counted among the top five composers, the place which was occupied by Naushad, Shankar Jaikishan, C Ramchandra, OP Nayyar and SD Burman. He would not have been counted among the top dozen, some people might have difficulty in including his name even in the top twenty music directors of the Golden Era. Anu Malik's songs are not that perennial and evergreen, but songs like Saranga Teri Yaad Mein from movie Saranga, directed by Dhirubhai Desai Dhirubhai Desai was a prominent Producer, Director >> Read More... featuring Sudesh Kumar Sudesh Kumar also known as Sudesh Prakash Dhawan, >> Read More... , Jayshree Gadkar Jayshree Gadkar was a well known actor who worked >> Read More... and Nilofer as leads and Ae Gham-E-Dil Kya Karun of Sardar Malik’s compositions would remain immortal.

Bits of information collected about him from here and there indicates that he was born in 1925. He learned music from Ustad Allauddin Khan and was a dancer, trained under Uday Shankar Uday Shankar is one the most well-known Indian fil >> Read More... at his residential school at Almora. He was a gifted singer and started getting both singing and composing assignments. Witnessing the rise of playback singers such as Md Rafi and Mukesh, he realized that he could not match them, and confined himself to music direction, and came to Bombay. He got married to the sister of Hasrat Jaipuri Hasrat Jaipuri was an Indian poet and a bollywood >> Read More... . His first noteworthy film was Laila Majnu Click to look into! >> Read More... (1953), in which he gave music along with Ghulam Mohammad. The film starred legendary Shammi Kapoor Shammi Kapoor: - 'Elvis Presley' of India. >> Read More... and Nutan. In spite of his obvious talents, he remained consigned to B-grade films. He passed away in 2006.

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