Music composer Roshan wasn’t given his dues
Music composer Roshan wasn’t given his dues
Veteran Music composer Roshan was honoured posthumously with the IIFA Lifetime Achievement Award at the 25th IFFA 2025 award event in Jaipur. Notedly, his melodies have stood the test of time.
The Music Composer in director Kidar Sharma’s Chitralekha (1964), based on Bhagwati Charan Verma’s eponymous novel about the virtues and vices of human life, composed the song
“Man re, tu kaahe na dheer dhare? O nirmohi moh na jaane, jinka moh kare penned by lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi.
in the profound raag Yaman, and brought to life by Mohammed Rafi. this. An ordinary music director wouldn’t know to just stop there,” says writer and lyricist Javed Akhtar about the song in The Roshans, a Netflix documentary on the composer and his family.
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