With his velvety, soulful and ethereal voice, marked by a slight quaver, Talat Mahmood was well suited for the elegant poetic compositions that are the bedrock of Hindi film music, Though he still ...

If romantic longing of the human heart could be given an aural form, it would be Talat Mahmood’s voice. Listen to some of the softest songs of yearning from Hindi films to realise how Talat’s voice is ...

It’s impossible to race through this book. On every page, a song beckons; it is as if Talat Mahmood’s beguiling voice is calling out to you, singing softly in the back of your mind. It then becomes ...

Delhi’s Three Arts Club and Katyayani is staging a multimedia format reading performance on one of the greatest singers of the ’50s, Talat Mahmood, the man with the velvety voice, drawing from a book ...

Talat Mahmood holds a special place in people’s hearts, especially in the heart of his grand-niece Sahar Zaman. Mahmood was not only a vocal talent for actors such as Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand, and Dilip ...

How do people mark the success of a book? By the prestige of its publisher or by the love it gets? It is not very often that ...