Naushad

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Naushad Ali
Born December 25, 1919 (1919-12-25) (age 87)
Flag of India United Provinces of Agra and Oudh
Genre(s) Classical
Indian film music
Years active 1940–2005

Naushad Ali (Nastaliq: نوشاد علی,Devanagari: नौशाद अली) (December 25, 1919 – May 5, 2006) was an Indian musician. He was one of the foremost music directors (composers) for Bollywood films.

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Naushad was raised in Lucknow, a city with a long tradition as a center of refined North Indian culture. He studied classic Hindustani music there, under such teachers as Ustad Ghurbat Ali, Ustad Yusuf Ali, and Ustad Babban Saheb.

Naushad moved to Mumbai in the late 1930s to try his luck as a musician. After initial rebuffs, he got a job as a musician in a studio orchestra. He scored his first film in 1940. From 1942 until the late 1960s, he was one of the top music directors in the Bollywood film business.

Naushad worked with several lyricists including Shakeel Badayuni, Majrooh Sultanpuri, D. N. Madhok, Zia Sarhadi and Barabankvi.

As Western music changed and filmi music changed with it, Naushad came to be considered old-fashioned. Composers who could pen rock and roll and disco-inflected music were increasingly popular. Naushad was esteemed as a master, but in demand only for historical movies where an old-fashioned, traditional score was considered an asset.

In 1981, Naushad was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for his lifetime contribution to Indian cinema. In 2004, when a colorized version of the classic Mughal-e-Azam was released, Naushad was a guest of honor at the premiere[1].

Naushad's last music composition was for the movie Taj Mahal: An Eternal Love Story, directed by Akhbar Khan, which released in 2005. He died on May 5, 2006, in Mumbai.

He was known for his deft adaptation of the classical musical tradition for filmi uses. In some films, such as Baiju Bawra, all his songs were composed in traditional raga modes. He was also able to work with Western instruments (including the clarinet, mandolin, and accordion), Western-style orchestras, and adapt Western musical idioms.

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