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Usha Khanna (born 7 October 1941) is an Indian music director in Hindi cinema. She is the third female music director to enter the Hindi film industry, after Jaddan Bai and Saraswati Devi [1] and is one of the most commercially successful music directors in the male dominated music industry.
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 7, 2017 · Usha Khanna celebrates her 76th birthday on October 7. The third woman music director, after Jaddanbai (in the '30s) and Saraswati Devi (from the '30s to '50s), she has been the lone female...
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All this memorable music is the creation of a practically forgotten lady called Usha Khanna. The talented artist has been only the second major female music director in the history of Hindi film music (the first being Saraswati Devi aka Khurshid Minocher- Homji) and is completing fifty years of her career.
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Neither my entry into the film industry nor my journey was difficult. I have seen and heard about the struggles of people in this industry, but luckily I don’t have one. I wanted to enter the film industry as a singer but they made me a composer. When I first visited a music studio, a famous composer asked me if I could sing better than Lata Manges...
Not at all. I even fulfilled my dream of singing. Anytime Lata ji or Asha were busy and could not make it to the recording, I would pitch in as a singer. (She has sung for the popular ‘Pal Bhar Ke Liye Koi Hame Pyar Karle’, picturised on Hema Malini and Dev Anand in Johnny Mera Naam).
They were poles apart in their style, personality, singing and even talking. But great fun to work with. While Rafi saab would come and rehearse with me at the studio before every recording, Kishore da was just the opposite. He would call, tease me and then ask me to send a recording of the tune to him.
There are plenty. Every generation has had its own set of lyricists, singers and composers. It has changed slowly according to the choice and the talent of the people.
Why not? An artiste never dies. And I can make music to suit today’s style and choice. The songs were presented by Shrikant Narayan, Ram Tirath, Samanvitha Sharma, Govind Kurnool, Shruthi Bhide, Narssimhan Kannan and Kumaran Muthuraman. The orchestra was led by Pioneer Suresh from Chennai. “Maine Rakha Hai Mohabbat”, filmed on Mehmood had Arabic in...
Oct 7, 2022 · 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 industry.
Oct 9, 2023 · Usha Khanna took on the male bastion that was the film industry. During the time when male composers Naushad, Shankar-Jaikishan, O P Nayyar and C Ramachandra ruled the Hindi film industry charts ...
