Usha khanna biography definition
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Usha khanna biography definition
She made a prlific and successful career in a almost exclusively male dominated profession and industry.
Born in Gwalior, her father, Manohar Khanna, was a lyricist and singer, working as Assistant Superintendent in the Water Works Department in then Gwalior State.
When he came to Bombay for some work in 1946 he met Jaddanbai who was mother of Hindi film actress Nargis Dutt. On her request he started writing Gazals for Hindi films by the name, Javed Anwar. He was getting a monthly salary of Rs.
250 in Gwalior State and Jaddanabi offered him Rs. 800 for 3 gazals which he wrote for Jaddanbai's Nargis Art Productions' Romeo Juliet.
The popular music director O. P. Nayyar introduced Usha Khanna to Sashadhar Mukherjee, a powerful man in the Indian film industry at that time.
She sang a song for Mukherjee, and when he realised that she had composed the song on her own, he told her to