O.P. Nayyar

Celebrated as Asia’s “rhythm king,” O.P. Nayyar was among the leading composers of Bollywood’s fantastic age, enjoying an extended and prolific cooperation with superstar vocalist Asha Bhosle that yielded countless classics of Indian film music. Blessed January 16, 1926, in Lahore in pre-partition India, Omkar Prasad Nayyar produced his professional debut at age group 11, playing piano on All-India Radio. In 1949, he relocated to Mumbai and shortly landed his initial film assignment, composing incidental music for Krishan Kewal’s Kaneez. Nayyar produced his debut as music movie director via Dalsukh Pancholi’s Aasmaan. After some industrial flops, he regarded quitting cinema to instruct, but with Master Dutt’s 1954 film Aar Paar he have scored his initial box-office hit, starting an extended cooperation with Dutt that afterwards included Mr. and Mrs. 55 as well as the blockbuster C.We.D. Nayyar even so enjoyed his most significant achievement in tandem with Bhosle, acknowledged as his breakthrough. Free of typical training and traditional influence, he designed for Bhosle some remarkably vivid and contemporary music notable because of their upbeat, fiercely rhythmic strategy. Bhosle and Nayyar teamed for near 60 films in every, most notable included in this some late-’50s initiatives including Nava Daur, Tumsa Nahin Dekha, Sone Ki Chidiya, and Howrah Bridge. Their cumulative achievement not only released Bhosle being a rival to Bollywood melody queen Lata Mangeshkar (also her elder sister), and also set up Nayyar as the highest-paid composer in Indian filmmaking. Their relationship nevertheless finished bitterly in 1974, even though Nayyar continued to utilize performers including Mohammed Rafi and Mahendra Kapoor, he hardly ever experienced the same innovative success. Nayyar afterwards accepted the dissolution of their cooperation heralded the tipping stage of his profession, and pursuing 1994’s Jai Bhavani he retired from film completely, although he continued to be in the general public eye because of infrequent television looks. Nayyar passed away January 28, 2007, significantly less than fourteen days past his 81st birthday.