Naushad Ali was BORN ON 19TH December 1919; he was the foremost music composer of Hindi Filmdom. Naushad moved from Lucknow from to Mumabai in the late 1930s to try his luck as a musician. After initial struggle, he enjoyed great success in the 1940s as a music director.

Naushad has the credit of introducing the famous Mohammed Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar to the Hindi Filmi Music. Naushad's professional training in Hindustani Music enabled him in swift adaptations of the Hindustani Ragas to films. He is by and large regarded as the ONLY exponent of the usage of Hindustani Music in Hindi Films.. Late in his career, Naushad lamented upon the decreasing use of Hindustani genre and so he dreamt of starting a music school which teaches that genre. He has been quite successful in both bringing up the school and breeding young talent in that school.

His major hits Include baiju Bawra, Mugal-e-Asam etc. .Songs for his music have been mostly penned down by written by Shakeel Badayuni. . Their historuic partnership contributed to Indian filmdom a kind of music which no other period or no other partnership had done. It has no comparison in India. His previous music composition was for the movie Taj Mahal—An Eternal Love Story, by Akhbar Khan in 2005.
Naushad was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award 1981 for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema.He passed away on May 5, 2006 at his residence in Bandra, Mumbai. With him ends an era of Hindi Film Music.