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Usha Khanna remained quite active as a composer and the last movie she has given music to was in 2003. The movie was Dil Pardesi Ho Gaya, produced and directed by her ex-husband Saawan Kumar. [6]
Oct 9, 2023 · Usha Khanna is the only living female composer in Bollywood, besides Sneha Khanwalkar, who is not really a part of mainstream Hindi cinema. Usha Khanna took on the male bastion that was the film...
Jan 13, 2019 · Usha Khanna, who turns 75 today, is the most prolific and successful woman music director in the history of Hindi cinema. Before her, Bombay cinema had seen only two other women composers: Jaddan Bai and Saraswati Devi. But undeniably Gwalior-born Khanna has enjoyed the longest innings.
Oct 13, 2023 · Usha Khanna was one of the pioneering female music composers in the Indian film industry, a field largely dominated by male composers. She was the third female composer to enter the Hindi film industry, after Jaddan Bai and Saraswati Devi.
Sep 26, 2019 · Legendary Hindi film composer Usha Khanna shares her life's journey through music. Usha started her career at the age of 17 as a composer, with 'Dil Deke Dekho' which starred Shammi Kapoor and...
Sep 16, 2020 · When Usha Khanna made her entry into the film music field as a teenager-composer with S. Mukerji’s Dil Deke Dekho (1959) full 33 years ago, the field was a male domain into which she seemed to have strayed.
Oct 7, 2017 · The third woman music director, after Jaddanbai (in the '30s) and Saraswati Devi (from the '30s to '50s), she has been the lone female representative in the "men's only" club since 1959. She has...
