Roshan (music director)
| Roshan Sahani Je | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Roshanlal Nagrath |
| Born | July 14, 1917 |
| Origin | Gujranwala, Punjab, British India |
| Died | November 16, 1967 (aged 50) |
| Occupation(s) | Music Director, Composer |
| Years active | 1948-1967 |
Roshanlal Nagrath (14 July 1917 – 16 November 1967), better known simply by his first name Roshan, was a Hindi film music composer. He was the father of the actor and film director Rakesh Roshan and music director Rajesh Roshan and paternal grandfather of Hritik Roshan.
Roshan was born in Gujranwala, Punjab, British India (now part of Punjab in Pakistan). He began music lessons at a young age, and later attended Marris College (now Bhatkhande Music Institute) in Lucknow under the training of Pt. S N Ratanjankar (Principal of the University). In the early 1940s, Khawaja Khurshid Anwar, Programme Producer/Music, AIR Delhi, hired Roshan as Staff Artist for Esraj, the instrument which he used to play.
In 1948, Roshan came to Mumbai to find work as a Hindi film music director and became Assistant of Music Composer Khawaja Khurshid Anwar in film Singaar. He struggled until meeting Kidar Sharma, who gave him the job of composing for his film Neki aur Badi (1949). While this film was a flop, Roshan emerged as a player on the Hindi film music scene with the film Baawre Nain, released the following year.
In the early 1950s, Roshan worked with singers Mohammed Rafi, Mukesh and Talat Mahmood. Malhar, Shisham, and Anhonee were some of the movies that he scored during the '50s. It was during this time that he composed, Aeiri main to prem diwani mera dard na jane koyi sung by Lata Mangeshkar for the movie Naubahaar. He was not always commercially successful. He gave Indeewar and Anand Bakshi their first breaks in the industry as lyricists; these two would later become two of the most sought-after songwriters in Mumbai from the late 1960s onwards.
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