Music director usha khanna biography
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Music director usha khanna biography
Usha Khanna: The only living female music composer of Bollywood
Okay, take a guess. Who composed these chartbusters? Dil deke dekho (Dil Deke Dekho), Chhoro kal ki baatein kal ki baat purani (Hum Hindustani), Hai tabassum tera (Nishan), Madhuban khushboo deta hai (Sajan Bina Suahagan), Tu iss terah se meri zindagi mein shaamil hai (Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi), Teri galiyon mein na rakhenge qadam (Hawas), Barkha rani zara jamm ke barso (Sabak), Raat abhi baqi hai baat abhi baqi hai (Do Khiladi), Dil ke tukde tukde (Dada), Chai pe bulaya hai (Souten)….
Chances are, you grew up humming these evergreens without knowing who composed them.
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. During the time when male composers Naushad, Shankar-Jaikishan, O P Nayyar and C Ramachandra ruled the Hindi fi