Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Sadly, Mahmood’s Tal(a)(en)t remained untapped

Composer Madan (Moh)and singer Talat had a couple of things in common – they were renowned for their ghazals, and they didn’t have big bodies of work to boast of.

While both might give Hindi music aficionados the impression that the duo wasn’t versatile, it mustn’t be forgotten that the focus was on Kohlity, and not on quantity, in the 1950s.

One of their collaborations was Meri Yaad Mein Tum Na Aansoo Bahana from Madhosh (1951). The song, penned by Raja Mehdi Ali Khan, wasn’t (M)a(h)mood-lifter by any stretch of the imagination, but it was timeless.      

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