Mohammed Zahur Khayyam

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Mohammed Zahur Khayyam Hashmi (18 February 1927 – 19 August 2019),<ref name="Khayyam Death">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> better known mononymously as Khayyam, was an Indian music director and background score composer whose career spanned four decades.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>This studio gave a struggling musician a new dawnTemplate:Dead linkTemplate:Cbignore Mohammed Wajihuddin, Indian Express, 26 May 2002.</ref>

He won three Filmfare Awards: for Best Music in 1977 for Kabhi Kabhie and 1982 for Umrao Jaan, and a lifetime achievement award in 2010. He was awarded the 2007 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in Creative Music, by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance and Theatre.<ref>Creative Music Template:Webarchive Sangeet Natak Akademi Official Award listings.</ref> He was awarded the third-highest civilian honour, Padma Bhushan, by the Government of India in 2011.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Early life

Khayyam was born to a Punjabi Muslim family<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> on 18 February 1927 in Rahon in Punjab, British India.<ref name="JagranJosh">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> As a boy, Khayyam ran away to his uncle's house in New Delhi. There he was trained under classical vocalist and composer Pandit Amarnath.<ref name="TheNational">Template:Cite news</ref>

Career

Khayyam went to Lahore looking for roles in films. There he met Baba Chishti, a famous Punjabi music director. After listening to a composition by Chishti, he sang to him its first part. Impressed, Chishti gave him an offer of joining him as an assistant. Khayyam assisted Chishti for six months and came to Ludhiana in 1943. He was only 17 then.<ref name="JagranJosh"/>

After a stint in the Army in the Second World War, Khayyam went to Bombay to fulfil his dream<ref name="TheNational"/> and made his debut as Sharmaji of the Sharmaji-Varmaji composer duo with the film Heer Ranjha in 1948.<ref name="JagranJosh"/> He went solo after his co-composer Rehman Verma went to the newly created Pakistan post partition.<ref name="JagranJosh"/> One of his earliest breaks was in the film Biwi (1950) in which the song "Akele Mein Woh Ghabrate To Honge" sung by Mohammed Rafi was a hit. "Shaam-e-Gham Ki Kasam" sung by Talat Mehmood from the film Footpath (1953) struck a chord among the masses.<ref name="PBArchives">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He gained greater recognition from the film Phir Subha Hogi (1958) starring Raj Kapoor and Mala Sinha, in which songs written by Sahir Ludhianvi and sung by Mukesh and Asha Bhosle were set to tune by Khayyam.<ref name="Phir Subha Hogi">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Notable amongst them are "Wo Subha Kabhi To Aayegi", "Aasman Pe hai Khuda Aur Zameen Pe Hum" and "Chin-o-Arab Humara".<ref name="Phir Subha Hogi"/>

Songs from the film Shola Aur Shabnam (1961) written by Kaifi Azmi established Khayyam's reputation as a composer.<ref name="JagranJosh"/> From the Chetan Anand directed Aakhri Khat (1966) "Baharon Mera Jeevan Bhi Sawaron" by Lata and "Aur Kuch Der Theher" by Rafi were huge hits. Other notable songs are from the film Shagoon (1964) which had Khayyam's wife Jagjit Kaur sing "Tum Apna Ranj-o-Gham" and "Tum Chali Jaogi".<ref name="Career">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The 1970s saw Khayyam team up with Sahir Ludhyanvi once again to work in the Yash Chopra-directed Kabhi Kabhie (1976).<ref name="Khayyam Death" /> The songs showed Khayyam's versatility with hits such as "Kabhi Kabhi Mere Dil Mein Khayal Aata Hai" (Sung by Mukesh and Lata), "Tere Chehre Se Nazar Nahin" (by Kishore & Lata) and "Main Pal Do Pal Ka Shayar Hoon" (by Mukesh).<ref name= Quint>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Khayyam provided music to the films of the late-1970s and early-1980s. Songs from Trishul, Thodi Si Bewafaai, Bazaar, Dard, Noorie, Nakhuda, Sawaal, Bepannah, and Khandaan are some of his best works.<ref name="Khayyam Death" />

Khayyam was still to deliver his best, and the opportunity came in Muzaffar Ali's Umrao Jaan in 1981.<ref name= UmraoJaan>Template:Cite news</ref> He had Asha Bhonsle sing the songs "In Aankhon Ki Masti Ke", "Ye Kya Jagah Hai Doston", and "Dil Cheez Kya Hai", which are evergreen.<ref name= UmraoJaan/>

Rajesh Khanna liked the songs of the film Kabhi Kabhie so much that he gifted Khayyam one of his cars.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Subsequently, Khayyam composed music for Thodisi Bewafai, Dard (both 1981) and Dil-E-Nadaan (1982), all of them starring Khanna in the lead.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Khayyam created music for the Kamal Amrohi directed film Razia Sultan (1983) and his song "Aye Dil-e-Nadan" sung by Lata is considered as a milestone.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Khayyam in 2012

He also composed non-film songs. Some of them include "Paaon Padun Tore Shyam, Brij Mein Laut Chalo" and "Ghazab Kiya Tere Vaade Pe Aitbaar Kiya".<ref name="Khayyam Death" /> He also gave music for Meena Kumari's album, I Write, I Recite (1971) featuring the "nazms" written and sung by her.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Khayyam always preferred to work with poets rather than film lyricists.<ref name="Ode">Template:Cite news</ref> That is the reason one finds poetry playing an equal role in Khayyam's compositions as the music or the singer.<ref name="Ode"/> Khayyam prefers to give full freedom to the poets for expressing their views thereby making the expression of songs more poetic and meaningful.<ref name="Ode"/>

He worked with both his contemporaries in the field of poetry.<ref name="Ode"/> That's the reason one finds in his account the work profiled by Mirza Ghalib, Daagh, Wali Mohammed Wali, Ali Sardar Jafri, Majrooh Sultanpuri, Sahir Ludhianvi, and among the new ones Naqsh Lyallpuri, Nida Fazli, Jan Nisar Akhtar and Ahmed Wasi.<ref name="Ode"/>

Khayyam's music had the touch of ghazal but was rooted in Indian classical music. The compositions were soulful, melodious and emotional, the songs were rich in poetry and purpose and the style was noticeably different from the popular brand of music in those days, which used to be either semi-classical, ghazal or light and peppy.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

On his 89th birthday, Khayyam announced the formation of a charitable trust, Khayyam Jagjeet Kaur KPG Charitable Trust, and decided to donate his entire wealth to the trust to support budding artists and technicians in India. His wealth at the time of announcement was valued at around Template:INRConvert.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

He decided not to celebrate his birthday after the terrorist attack on India's border post of Pulwama and donated Template:INRConvert to the kin of the martyrs.<ref name="Pulwama">Template:Cite news</ref>

Personal life

Khayyam married Jagjit Kaur in 1954 in one of the first inter-communal marriages in the Indian film industry.<ref name="MM">Template:Cite news</ref> They had a son, Pradeep, who died of a heart attack in 2012. Inspired by their son's helping nature, they started a trust, "Khayyam Jagjit Kaur Charitable Trust" to help artistes and technicians in need.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Death

In his last days, Khayyam was suffering from various age related ailments. On 28 July 2019, Khayyam was admitted to Sujay Hospital in Juhu, Mumbai due to lung infection. He died on 19 August 2019 following a cardiac arrest at the age of 92.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was buried the following day with full state honours.<ref name= Burial>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Awards and nominations

Khayyam being awarded Padma Bhushan by President Pratibha Patil in 2011.

Won

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Nominated

  • 1980: Filmfare Best Music Director Award: Noorie<ref name= "Filmfare"/>
  • 1981: Filmfare Best Music Director Award: Thodisi Bewafai<ref name= "Filmfare"/>
  • 1982: Filmfare Best Music Director Award: Bazaar<ref name= "Filmfare"/>
  • 1984: Filmfare Best Music Director Award: Razia Sultan<ref name= "Filmfare"/>

Filmography

Music Director Khayyam presenting a book titled "Khayyam: The man, His Music" to the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh
Singer
  • Romeo & Juliet (1947) — sang a duet with Zohrabai Ambalewali<ref name="Cinestaan">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Music director
  • Heer Ranjha (1948) — as Sharmaji (of Sharmaji-Varmaji duo, with Rahman Varma and Aziz Khan)<ref name="JagranJosh"/>
  • Biwi (1950)<ref name="HindiGeetMala">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Pyaar Ki Baatein (1951)<ref name="Cinestaan"/>
  • Foot Path (1953)<ref name="Hungama" /> — adopted the screen name Khayyam.
  • Gul Sanobar (1953) — with Bulo C. Rani<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Lala Rukh (1958)<ref name="Hungama" />
  • Barood (1960)<ref name="Cinestaan"/>
  • Bombai Ki Billi (1960)<ref name="Cinestaan"/>
  • Shola Aur Shabnam (1961)<ref name="Khayyam Death"/><ref name="Hungama" />
  • Shagoon (1964)<ref name="Anantharaman2008">Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Mohabbat Isko Kahete Hain (1965)<ref name="Hungama" />
  • Aakhri Khat (1966)<ref name="Hungama" />
  • Mera Bhai Mera Dushman (1967)<ref name="Cinestaan"/>
  • I Write, I Recite (1971) — Album consisting of nazms written and sung by Meena Kumari.<ref name="Khayyam Death" />
  • Pyaase Dil (1974)<ref name="Cinestaan"/>
  • Sandhya (1975)<ref name="Cinestaan"/>
  • Mutthi Bhar Chawal (1975)<ref name="Cinestaan"/>
  • Sankalp (1975)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Kabhi Kabhie (1976)<ref name="Khayyam Death" /><ref name="Hungama" />
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  • Trishul (1978)<ref name="Khayyam Death" /><ref name="Hungama" />
  • Khandaan (1979)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Dil-e-Nadaan (1982)<ref name="Hungama" />
  • Bazaar (1982)<ref name="Hungama" />
  • Baawri (1982)<ref name="Hungama" />
  • Sawaal (1982)<ref name="Hungama">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Dil...Akhir Dil Hai (1982)<ref name="Hungama" />
  • Razia Sultan (1983)<ref name="Hungama" />
  • Mehndi (1983)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Lorie (1984)<ref name="Hungama" />
  • Bepanaah (1985)<ref name="Bepanah">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Tere Shahar Mein (1986)<ref name="Cinestaan"/>
  • Anjuman (1986)<ref name="Anjuman">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="AnjumanGM">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Jaan-E-Wafa (1990)<ref name="Cinestaan"/>
  • Mohabbaton Ka Safar (1995)<ref name="Cinestaan"/>
  • Ek Hi Manzil (2000)<ref name="Cinestaan"/>
  • Yatra (2007)<ref name="Hungama" />
  • Mission-The Last War (2008)<ref name="Hungama" />
  • Bazaar E Husn (2014)<ref name="Hungama" />
  • Ghulam Bandhu (2016) — Unreleased<ref name="KhayyamTOI">Template:Cite news</ref>

Further reading

  • Khayyam — The Man, His Music, biography.<ref name="book">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="archivepmo">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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