Bollywood Home » Musicians » O P Nayyar Omkar Prasad Nayyar, popularly known as O P Nayyar is a maestro in Indian film music. Considered as one of the greatest music directors of Bollywood, O P Nayyar has created some great music for Indian cinema that has performed well at the box office. This legendary music director was born in Lahore on 16th January, 1926 and passed away on 28th January, 2007. However, O P Nayyar is still remembered for his peppy numbers like 'Babuji Dheere Chalna' from the movie Aar Paar, which was sung by Geeta Dutt.

Most of the popular numbers created by O P Nayyar was sung by legendary singers like Asha Bhosle, Geeta Dutt and Mohammed Rafi. Later in his life, O P Nayyar has also worked with other famous singers like Mahendra Kapoor, Mukesh and Hemant Kumar.

Most of the songs composed by O P Nayyar were screened on popular contemporary heroines like Madhubala, Sharmila Tagore, Mala Sinha, Asha Parekh, Vyjayanthimala and Padmini. After the smash hit song 'Babuji Dheere Chalna', Madhubala became one of the favorite heroines of O P Nayyar.

Hit scores composed by O P Nayyar: Among some of the popular songs composed by O P Nayyar 'Aakhonse Jo Utree Hai Dil Main' sung by Asha Bhonsle and screened on Asha Parekh is still remembered in Bollywood.



Some of the most popular music creations by O P Nayyar include:

• 'Tumsa Nahi Dekha' from the movie 'Tumsa Nahi Dekha'. Singer of this popular song was Mohd. Rafi.
• 'Piya Piya Piya Mora Jiya ' from the movie Baap-Re-Baap. Sung by Kishore Kumar and Asha Bhosle
• 'Leke Pehla Pehla Pyar' from the movie C.I.D. Singers of this great song were Shamshad Begum, Mohd. Rafi and Asha Bhosle.

Some other all-time favorite compositions by O P Nayyar include:

• Ek Pardesi Mera Dil Le Gaya
• Ude Jab Jab Zulfen Teri
• Ye Lo Main Hari Piya
• Thandi Hawa Kali Ghata
• Dekho Kasam Se

O P Nayyar's tunes were famous for rhythm. The last composition of this maestro was 'Chainase Humko Kabhi' for which Asha Bhosle won the Filmfare Best Playback Singer Award. O P Nayyar dominated the Hindi film music industry during 1950s. He was very generous with all the newcomers in the Bollywood industry and helped all the upcoming singers. Some of the most popular hit songs of O P Nayyar was condemned by the government and was marked as 'trendy'. O P Nayyar was also referred as a rebellious composer by the press.

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