I do not think that the Purana Zamana will ever come back,” said Naushaad’s son Raju Naushad.
Notably, Raju Naushad and Majrooh Sultanpuri’s daughter Saba Sultanpuri was present in the city here on Tuesday to attend a musical concert organised in the memory of Mohammad Rafi, Naushad and Majrooh Sultanpuri at Ravindra Bhavan. Moreover, a renowned lyricist Abhilash and musician Raj Sharma were also present.
While talking to the mediapersons here on Tuesday Raju and Saba talked about the ‘music of yesterday and music of today’ moreover they further shared some of the rarest incidents of Majrooh Sultanpuri and Naushad’s life.
While talking about the music, Raju Naushad said, “A music composer is a creator and these days the music composed is not the real one and earlier when the music was composed it touched the hearts and those songs are still sung by the music lover. But, today’s music has no.” Elaborating more about it, he said, “Since childhood I am exposed to the actual world of music and I know that how willingly the composers used to create the music.”
While sharing more about it, Raju said, “Naushad sahib was a devoted composer having a career of 65 years he did only 70 films as he only believed in quality and not quantity. The case today is totally visa-versa.” Further, Abhilash while elaborating about today’s music said, “Earlier the musicians, composers used to apply a lot of hard work even in creating a single song. It took us almost three months to create the title track of Mere Mehboob, but today these filmmakers do not want to put in that dedication and hard work.”
While sharing some of her memories with the city of lakes, Saba Sultanpuri said, “I have spend my childhood in the galis of Itwara and have enjoyed my childhood days with mu family here. There are infinite memories of this city which are still connected with me till now.”