Naushad Ali was an Indian composer for Hindi films.
42 Facts About Naushad
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Naushad is widely considered to be one of the greatest and foremost music directors of the Hindi film industry.
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Naushad is particularly known for popularising the use of classical music in films.
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Naushad was conferred the Dadasaheb Phalke Award and the Padma Bhushan in 1981 and 1992 respectively for his contribution to the Hindi film industry.
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Naushad Ali was born and raised in Lucknow, a city with a long tradition as a centre of Indian Muslim culture.
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Naushad studied Hindustani music there under Ustad Ghurbat Ali, Ustad Yusuf Ali, Ustad Babban Saheb and others.
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Naushad used to watch silent films at the Royal theatre in Lucknow.
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In time Naushad formed his own Windsor Music Entertainers or just Windsor Entertainers, so named because he had seen the word "Windsor" around Lucknow and liked its ring.
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Naushad was trained under Laddan Khan until he became capable of working independently as a composer.
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Naushad limped back to Lucknow through the kindness of one of Naushad's friends.
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Naushad had already become a cinema fan in the silent era and then, in 1931, Indian cinema got voice and music that further fascinated the 13-year-old boy.
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Naushad learnt classical and folk music against the wishes of his father.
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Naushad moved to Mumbai in late 1937 for a career as a musician.
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Naushad assisted music director Ustad Jhande Khan who was at the peak of his success those days, at a monthly salary of Rs 40.
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Naushad was a piano player so he worked as a pianist in composer Ustad Mushtaq Hussain's orchestra.
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Composer Khemchand Prakash took him on as his assistant for the film Kanchan at Ranjit Studios at a salary of Rs 60 per month, for which Naushad remained extremely grateful and in interviews, he had called Khemchand his guru.
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Naushad composed a thumri for this film, "Bata de koi kaun gali gaye Shyam", but the film never went into production.
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Naushad was assistant music director for the Punjabi film Mirza Sahib.
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Naushad composed for his first independent film Prem Nagar in 1940 that had a story set in Kutch for which he did a lot of research into the folk music of the area.
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The music by Naushad saheb was such a phenomenal hit that the company earned Rs 3 lacs as royalty from gramophone sales in the first year.
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When Naushad got married, the band was playing the tunes of the super hit songs of Naushad's film 'Rattan'.
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Naushad understood Hindu and Muslim culture and the languages of those cultures.
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In 1981, Naushad was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for his lifetime contribution to Indian cinema.
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Naushad composed the tunes of Taj Mahal: An Eternal Love Story at the age of 86.
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Kinikar came up with a book titled "Notes of Naushad" which puts together some interesting anecdotes of Naushad's life.
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Naushad composed background music for the TV serial "Akbar The Great" telecast in 1988 which was directed by Akbar Khan, brother of Hindi film stars Sanjay Khan and Feroze Khan as was The Sword of Tipu Sultan produced and directed by Sanjay Khan and Akbar Khan which was telecast in 1990 and became very popular.
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Naushad died on 5 May 2006 in Mumbai due to cardiac arrest at age 86.
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Rehman Naushad being the eldest of all assisted him in some of his films.
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Also, Naushad composed music for two movies directed by Rahman Naushad, My Friend and Teri Payal Mere Geet.
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Naushad was ranked as one of the most respected and successful music directors of Indian Film Industry.
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Naushad had requested the Maharashtra State Government to sanction a plot for an institution for promoting Hindustani music.
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The album has lyrics and composition by Naushad, arranged by Uttam Singh.
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Naushad gave a new trend to popular film music by basing his tunes on classical music ragas and folk music.
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Naushad was known for his skillful adaptation of the classical musical tradition for movie songs.
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Naushad could incorporate Western musical idioms in his compositions and compose for Western-style orchestras.
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Naushad was one of the first to introduce sound mixing and the separate recording of voice and music tracks in playback singing.
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Naushad was the first to combine the flute and the clarinet, the sitar and mandolin.
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Naushad introduced the accordion to Hindi film music and was among the first to focus on background music to extend characters' moods and dialogue through music.
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Naushad was the first composer to have developed the system of western notation in India.
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Naushad used just six instruments in the title song of Mere Mehboob.
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In 2004, a colorized version of the classic Mughal-e-Azam was released, for which Naushad had the orchestral music specially re-created by today's industry musicians, while maintaining all the solo vocals from the original soundtrack.
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Naushad was still esteemed as a maestro, but his talents were sought mostly for historical movies where traditional scores were appropriate.