My friend Dr. Khawar Siddiqui of Pakistan, now a scientist in Australia
was the beneficiary of the generosity of this great man. Through him I
also had the pleasure of listening to the grand collection consisting
of film and non-film songs from 1905 to mid-fifties. I will be sharing
songs from this collection for while now. Here is the first part:
In addition to the songs
below Mr. Hem
Chandra Jain also gave me songs from early films of Naushad. He got
them from the private collection of Naushad himself. For a
listing of Naushad films, see his letterhead (given to me by Irfan
Anwar)