Roshan

Roshan is a Music Director and also worked as Actor. Roshan has mostly worked in Hindi and has worked in languages like Hindi, Silent, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada.
He was born on 14 July 1917 and died at the age of 16 November 1967. He was born as Roshanlal Nagrath. He was a Bollywood film music composer. He was the father of the actor and film director Rakesh Roshan. He was born in Gujranwala, Punjab, and British India. He attended Marris College in Lucknow under the training of Pt. S N Ratanjankar (Principal of the University). He started his work as an Assistant of Music Composer Khawaja Khurshid Anwar in film Singaar. It was Kidar Sharma who gave him the first chance in the film Neki aur Badi (1949)'. He worked with worked with singers Mukesh and Talat Mahmood. He gave many hits like: Na to karavan ki talaash hai and Zindagi bhar nahin bhoolegi woh barsaat ki raat (Barsaat Ki Raat, 1960), Ab kya misaal doon and Kabhi to milegi, kahin to milegi (Aarti, 1962), Jo wada kiya woh nibhana padega, Paao chhoon lene do and Jurm-e-ulfat pe (Taj Mahal, 1963), Nigahen milane ko jee chahata hai and Laaga chunari mein daag (Dil Hi To Hai, 1963), Sansaar se bhaage phirte ho and Man re tu kaahe (Chitralekha, 1964), and Oh re taal mile and Khushi khushi kar do vida (Anokhi Raat, 1968). He died due to cardiac arrest. Check out this page for more updates on Roshan.