Naushad

A good songwriter or lyricist is an essential component for a good music director. Lyricist like Sahir Ludhianvi, Shakeel Badauni, Majrooh Sultanpuri, Hasrat Jaipuri, Sailendra, Anand Bakshi, Pradeep, SH Bihari, Neeraj, Janisar Akhter, Raja Mehdi Ali Khan, Rajendra Singh Bedi etc. penned the beautiful melodious poetic songs and music directors like Naushad, SD Burman, Anil Biswas, C. Ramchandra, Madanmohan, GM Durrani, Sajjad, GM Mohammad, Jaidev set tune to them. They produced immortal songs in tandem. With the death of the above named lyricists Bollywood is left with only two lyricists of repute- Gulzar and 'overworked' Javed Akhter, son of Janisar Akhter. The rest are simply 'Bakhwas" and not 'edible'.

So, real good poetic songs are hard to be heard now. Music directors like Naushad must be happy to be dead in this era of 'remix music'.