Naushadnama: The Life & Music of Naushad

An authoritative comprehensive and enthralling narrative - studded with rare nuggets of information - that records the life and times of ‘the composer of the century’ whose music was poetry in motion.The seven letters in Naushad’s name are like the seven notes of Hindustani classical music. After just a few years in films Naushad (1919-2006) went to rule the Hindi cinema music world for around two decades beginning with the landmark Rattan (1944). His oeuvre (from 1940 to 2005) consists of an unmatched list of jubilees many of which are musical milestones such as Andaz (1949) Baiju Bawra (1952) Mother India (1957) and Mughal-e-Azam (1960).No individual stays supreme without putting in tremendous efforts to reach the pinnacle and to stay there as long as possible as our maestro did. And no composer probably