July 15th, 2010

Talat Mahmood’s Factfile

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Dil-e-Nadaan (1953) film poster

Dil-e-Nadaan (1953) film poster

Talat Mahmood sang maximum number of songs for C. Ramchandra, Madan Mohan, Vinod, Ghulam Mohammed and Shanker Jaikishan.

Talat Mahmood acted in 13 Hindi films, out of which 3 of them were with Nadira (Waris, Raftaar, and Dak Babu), 2 of them each with Suraiya (Waris and Maalik) and Shyama (Dil-e-Nadaan and Lala Rookh).

Talat Mahmood sang 3 songs for Pakistani films during his visit to Pakistan. 2 of them for Chiraag Jalta Raha (1962) and 1 for unreleased film Ghanghour Ghata. Chiraag Jalta Raha marked the debut of 3 Pakistani legends – Deeba, Mohammad Ali and Zeba.

Talat’s first non-film song was Sab din ek samaan nahin tha.

Talat’s first film song was Jago musafir jago from Rajlaxmi (1945).

Talat’s last released album was Ghazal ke saaz uthao in 1986 by HMV.

Talat married child star Latika Mullick (Nasreen) on 20th February, 1951 and have 2 children – Khalid and Sabina.

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