Uttam Singh

Uttam Singh is an Indian musician (Music director, violinist, and arranger) born on 25 May 1948. He is known for directing music for Yash Chopra’s Dil Toh Pagal Hai. He lived with his parents who moved to Mumbai when he was twelve years old. Father of Uttam Singh was a Sitar player. Since he was a child, he started learning Tabla and Western violin. To earn income for survival, his family used to conduct kirtans at different Gurudwaras. For three years he worked as a Violinist. In 1963, he broke through when he worked on a Mohammad Safi’s documentary as a violin player.

The director of the project learned under Naushad, Indian musician, as his assistant. After that, he went on to play the instrument for various artists such as Roshan, C. Ramchandra, Madan Mohan Madan Mohan Kohli born on 25thJune 1924 in Iraq (B >> Read More... , Naushad and Sachin Dev Burman. With the success of the career that he chose for himself, very soon, became the lead violinist for Rahul Dev Burman, son of S D Burman. Later, he became music arranger in collaboration with another musician named Jagdish. The duo arranged music for films. They composed music for as many as sixty-five Indian movies in various languages.

They worked for hit films from Rajshri Productions such as Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! and Maine Pyar Kiya Click to look into! >> Read More... . He also arranged music for various Tamil movies in collaboration with Ilaiyaraaja, an Indian film composer. He started directing music along with Jagdish. They worked as "Uttam- Jagdish" for Painter Babu, a Manoj Kumar Manoj Kumar, aka Manoharan, was born on September >> Read More... film. Later, they went to work for his another film that goes by the name Clerk. In 1988, they worked on the movie called Wallis starring Smita Patil, Raj Kiran, Raj Babbar Raj Babbar is an actor turned politician. He is re >> Read More... , Amrish Puri Amrish Lal Puri was born on 22nd June, 1932 in Pun >> Read More... and Amrita Singh Amrita Singh is an Indian film and TV actress. She >> Read More... . In 1992, Jagdish died after which Singh started working independently.

His work began to become more recognised which landed him the contract of hit film of a hit director named Dil Toh Pagal Hai starring none other than Shah Rukh Khan Shah Rukh Khan or also known as SRK is a prominent >> Read More... . He was also the music director for movies like Hum Tumpe Marte Hain, Pyaar Diwana Hota Hai, Farz, and Dushman. In 2001, he worked on Anil Sharma's Gadar: Ek Prem Katha Ek Prem Katha is a Hindi TV series that airs on DD >> Read More... and after some years on The Hero: Love Story ‘Love Story’ was a series that was telecast on SAB >> Read More... of a Spy. In 2003, he collaborated with the Wadali Brothers They are the famous Islamic musicians as well as s >> Read More... for Chandra Prakash Dwivedi's Pinjar, a partition drama. The scores and songs brought him critical acclaim and are considered to be the finest of his works as a composer.

In 2002, he worked for his daughter’s album Soor. In 1996, he composed his independent album named Om Sai Ram.

The Singhs’ Family Tree (Infographic Family Tree)