Talat Mehmood

New delhi< 09 May, (Sunil Kumar/VNI) Talat Mahmood (24 February 1924 – 9 May 1998) is known  as  one of the greatest singers. He was a born singer with unique voice .

Talat received Padma Bhushan in 1992, in recognition of his artistic contributions to  film music. Talat was  well known   for gazal  singing the film songs sung by him are also considered critically flawless and outstanding. ===

 Talat Mehmood was the melody king in Hindi films in the fifties. Though he became less active in the next two decades, the few songs that he sang in the sixties and seventies stood out for melody.

Veteran composers like Madan Mohan,Naushad, C.Ramachandra, Anil Biswas,Roshan,S.D.Burman, Shankar Jaikishen, Ravi, Khayyam, Jaidev and others produced evergreen melodies in Talat’s golden voice.