On May 9, 1998, when ghazal maestro Talat Mahmood passed away, ghazal singer Pankaj Udhas was in London, minutes from going on stage. "I was in the dressing room when suddenly we received word of his ...

It’s impossible to race through this book. On every page, a song beckons; it is as if Talat Mahmood’s beguiling voice is calling out to you, singing softly in the back of your mind. It then becomes ...

He was the first playback singer to embark on world tours; his performances enhanced the global appeal of the ghazal and made it popular in mainstream Hindi cinema. Talat Mahmood (Picture Credit: ...

In times when heartache is increasingly getting reduced to a clinical condition and melancholy has become an undervalued emotion, let us replay the gems of Talat Mahmood (1924-1998) whose birth ...

Delhi’s Three Arts Club and Katyayani is staging a multimedia format reading performance on one of the greatest singers of the ’50s, Talat Mahmood, the man with the velvety voice, drawing from a book ...

In his songs, you can hear the faint rustle of silk and the muffled sound of an aching heart. Years after he passed away, Talat Mahmood’s velvet voice continues to regale listeners. In an email ...

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For an entire generation, Talat Mahmood was the Velvet Voice of Hindi film music. He shone during the 1950s and first half of the following decade, and his sad and romantic tunes are still popular. To ...

Zaman, a well-known television journalist, also said she would be happy if a filmmaker like Sanjay Leela Bhansali directs the biopic with Ranbir Kapoor essaying the role of Mahmood who also starred in ...

Pankaj Udhas ‘Chhithi Aayee Hai’ from Mahesh Bhatt’s 1986 film Naam, routinely reduces many an NRI to blubbering tears while yet others swear by the emotional sway of Chandi Jaisa Rang Hai Tera or ...

WARSAW - It is now 10 years ago that legendary singer Talat Mahmood died. At that time his daughter Sabina, who lives in Poland, had not been able to reach Mumbai to see her father's ...