It was our silver anniversary. I called Pankaj Udhas to invite him for the evening. “Aapka hukum hai, zaroor aayenge. Per ek sharat hai.” “Kya?” I asked. “Anniversary ki sham aap dono ke naam, meri ...
Did you know that the ghazal singer Pankaj Udhas recites Hanuman Chalisa before all his concerts or, that schoolboys organised his concert in Delhi in the 1980s? In a tête-à-tête with us, the singer ...
'For him to give me a compliment was huge' “I had chosen Pankaj ji for Kitaabein. I asked him ‘sir aap gaaoge?’, and he very sweetly agreed, he first wanted to listen to the composition. When I played ...
He was the man who romanticised the spirits In 1985 the inflation rate in India was 5.56 % but it shot to 8.73% in 1986 and that is when Pankaj Udhas, who had been singing paeans about alcohol, ...
PATNA: “Rekhta ke tum hi nahin ho ustad Ghalib, Suna hai pehle koi Meer bhi hua karta tha (You are not the only one who is expert of Urdu language, earlier, there was an expert named Meer),” great ...
Late singer Pankaj Udhas was honoured posthumously with the Padma Bhushan — India’s third-highest civilian award — for his contribution to the field of art. His wife, Farida Udhas, who accepted the ...