The Legendary Composer:O.P.Nayyar

O.P.Nayyar(1926-2007)

The great legendary composer O.P.Nayyar is now no more with us.He left for his heavenly abode on 28th January this year.Newer generation might puzzle tht who was O.P.Nayyar but music lover cant forget this legendary composer and his master pieces such as "babuji dhire chalna,pyar me zara sambhalna...,kabhi aar,kabhi paar,laga teere nazar..."AAR PAR(1954),"maang k saath tumhara...,udey jab jab zulfein teri..,reshmi salwar kurta jali ka..." NAYA DAUR(1957),"aaiyey meharbaa,baitheye jaan-e-jaa...."HOWRAH BRIDGE(1958),"bahut shukriya badi meharbaani meri zindagi me huzoor aap aaye..." EK MUSAFIR EK HASINA(1962),"bandaparwar thaam lo jigar,banke pyar fir aaya hu,khidmat me aapke huzoor..." PHIR WOHI DIL LAYA HU(1963),"ye chand sa roshan chehra,zulfo ka rang sunhera..." KASHMIR KI KALI(1964),"pukarta chala hu main gali gali bahar ki,bas ek chhaon zulf ki..","ye hai reshmi zulfo ka andhera na ghabraiyey,jaha tak mehak hai mere..." MERE SANAM(1965),"dil ki awaaz bhi sun mere fasaane per na ja,meri nazro ki taraf dekh zamane per na ja..." HUMSAYA(1968).

with Madhubala

Omkar Prasad Nayyar was born on january 16,1926 at LAHORE(now Pakistan),he didn,t recieved any formal musical education.he developed a liking for music by listening to the prevailing music of the time.
He first signed film KANEEZ(1948) as music director though he had composed only background score for the movie.Later the 1st song recorded by him was for the film Aasman(1952).O.P.Nayyar's music speciality was tunes blended in folk music and rythmic beats based mainly of tabla,ghunghroos,tonga beats thaap.
O.P.Nayyar prevailed during the period what was called the golden era of indian hindi film music and at that time Lata Mangeshkar was the prime voice for the songs,no composer at that time can even think of not using lata's voice for the songs but readers will find it surprising that Mr.Nayyar never used Lata's voice under his composition,this is the amazing record which none other renowned composer of that era holds.

With Rafi