Usha Khanna

                                         Present – 1960

                                  Hindi , Urdu , Oriya


             Usha khanna (born 1941 in gwalior) is an indian conductor. considered the primary established feminine conductor within the indian industry , she remained active for over three decades from sixties to nineteen eighties. she remains active creating some music for a few movies and television-serials , over forty years when her debut as conductor in dil deke dekho (1959). she received a filmfare nomination for composing the songs for the large hit film souten (1983). 

Life

                 Usha khanna's father, manohar khanna , was a writer and singer , operating as assistant superintendent within the water works department in then gwalior state. once he came to mumbai (now mumbai) for a few add 1946 he met jaddanbai un agency was mother of hindi film role player nargis dutt. on her request he started writing gazals for hindi films by the name , jaaved anwar . he was obtaining a monthly pay of rs.250 in gwalior state and jaddanabi offered him rs.800 for three gazals that he wrote for jaddanbai ,s nargis art productions film lover juliet . usha khanna did usually take inspiration from arabic music , that she liked and she or he claims that she has ne'er upraised any song directly , however that she has composed one thing on the lines.

             The popular musician o. p. nayyar introduced usha khanna to sashadhar mukherjee , a robust man within the indian industry at that point. she american ginseng a song for mukherjee , and once he realized that she had composed the song on her own , he told her to compose 2 songs per day for one year. once many months , mukherjee signed her because the musician for his flick dil deke dekho (1959) as a music musician. the film, that additionally introduced the thespian asha parekh , became an enormous hit , and mukherjee employed her once more for an additional asha parekh starrer hum hindustani (1961).


                 After she started composing music for hindi movie s, usha khanna struggled to determine herself as a musician , despite manufacturing several hit songs. she usually collaborated with asha bhosle , who stated usha khanna as her female offspring , and mahomet rafi. this trio made several hit songs.

                Saawan kumar was usually the author for usha khanna , and wrote most of his lyrics for her songs. he directed and made the lyrics for eleven movies she scored the music for. in 1979 k. j. yesudas received filmfare award for her song dil ke tukde tukde within the film dada. usha khanna was married to sawan kumar tak however later they separated and she or he lives alone in metropolis (present name Mumbai ) currently.

               The effort she had place in to determine herself within the business, created her realise however tough it had been to interrupt through , and created her typically offer the possibility to new singers. she gave the possibility to the singers united nations agency were very little famous at that point – anupama deshpande , pankaj udhas , hemlata , mohammad aziz , roop kumar rathod , shabbir kumar , and sonu nigam. several of those went on to become notable singers. usha khanna herself conjointly herb some songs as a playback singer.

   Many of usha khanna's songs area unit still very fashionable.

             Usha khanna was quite active as a musician till the nineties. so far the last film she has given music to was in 2003. the film was dil pardesi ho gaya , created and directed by her ex saawan kumar un agency she was concisely married to.

               Usha khanna had given music to non-hindi movies too. the malayalam moving picture moodal manju (1969) remains remembered for a few of the best songs in malayalam as well as 'nee madhu pakaroo' by k. j. yesudas and 'maanasa mani veenayil' by s.janaki. agni nilavu and puthooram puthri unniyarcha ar the opposite malayalam movies done by her. why she failed to get several possibilities remains a mystery for several music lovers even currently.