![]() Nayyar was the first composer to have his picture put up on the record inlays as well as on film posters and hoardings. When his wife and children threw him out, self-admittedly for his own womanizing habits (this writer met him in 1999), he began to live with a fan family in Mumbai’s satellite town Thane, instructing them to close his room door should his song be played on radio, TV or tape! Towards his last decade and more, he learnt Homeopathy, which he said had cured him of a “terrible disease”, and practiced it with immense success. The disciplinarian, who lived life on his own terms, then gave Mahendra Kapoor some of the singer’s cream. Mohammed Rafi was his pet male singer, but when he reported late for a recording, he threw him out of his studios for some years. His favourite singers were Geeta Dutt and Shamshad Begum initially, to be replaced by Asha Bhosle, with whom he was in a long personal relationship that ended in 1973. Nayyar remains the only major composer who never worked with Lata Mangeshkar (multiple, unconfirmed reasons are given for this). He was also involved in the 1980s in Malayalam cinema. However, Nayyar also did some private albums, before and during his film innings. ![]() His music career began with Aasmaan (1952) and ended with Zid (1994).
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