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, and rose to great ...

He was the first playback singer to embark on world tours; his performances enhanced the global appeal of the ghazal and made it popular in mainstream Hindi cinema. Talat Mahmood (Picture Credit: ...

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 ...

On his birth anniversary, Talat Mahmood's grand-niece Sahar Zaman throws light on his upcoming biography and the legendary singer's life and times. 24th February marks the birth anniversary of Talat ...

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 ...