1351324494000John Abraham with Pankaj Udhas during the launch of the latter's music album held in Mumbai on October 26, 2012. (Pic: Viral Bhayani) See more of : pankaj udhas album launch, Mumbai ...

Pankaj Udhas, the Indian singer renowned as an exponent of the ghazal form of musical poetry, died in Mumbai after a prolonged illness. He was 72. Udhas’ daughter Nayaab revaled the news via an ...

New Delhi: ‘Chitthi Aayi Hai’ from the 1986 movie Naam, starring Sanjay Dutt, might have launched a thousand flights back home. That’s the kind of impact Pankaj Udhas had on the ghazal scene in ...

What does a 13-year-old make of the words ‘Deewaaron se milkar rona achha lagta hai’ that the song becomes almost an obsession with him? Or for that matter ‘Jheel mein chaand nazar aaye’. I was 13 ...

When one thinks of Ghazal, it is natural to picture a voice carrying the weight of ages, each word draped in solemnity and depth, commanding reverence with its serious, heavy tones. Then came a song, ...

Every ghazal aficionado has a Pankaj Udhas favourite. His ‘Chhithi Aayee Hai’ from Mahesh Bhatt’s 1986 film Naam, routinely reduces many an NRI to blubbering tears while yet others swear by the ...

In the panorama of Indian music, Pankaj Udhas stands out as a colossus, an artist whose name is irrevocably intertwined with the ghazal genre’s resurgence and popularity. Born into a Gujarati family ...