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Bollywood’s unluckiest music director earned Rs 100 a month, won National Award yet struggled for work; died before his musical masterpiece Pakeezah

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Perhaps one of the most talented film music composers of post-independence India, Ghulam Mohamed scored films like Pakeezah and Mirza Ghalib. While the songs live on, the composer himself has faded into memory, his life marked by struggle and hardship, never to enjoy the fruits of his success, having passed away years before the release of Kamal Amrohi’s masterpiece, struggling for food and medicine. Mohamed Ghulam He was born in the village of …
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Pop News broke the news in on Tuesday, November 4, 2025.
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