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Mohammed Zahur Khayyam
Indian music director and composer (1927–2019)
Mohammed Zahur Khayyam Hashmi (18 February 1927 – 19 August 2019),[1] better known mononymously as Khayyam, was an Indian music director and background score composer whose career spanned four decades.[2][3]
He won three Filmfare Awards: for Best Music in 1977 for Kabhi Kabhie and 1982 for Umrao Jaan, and a lifetime achievement award in 2010.
He was awarded the 2007 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in Creative Music, by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance and Theatre.[4] He was awarded the third-highest civilian honour, Padma Bhushan, by the Government of India in 2011.[5]
Early life
Khayyam was born to a Punjabi Muslim family[6] on 18 February 1927 in Rahon in Punjab, British India.[7][8] As a boy, Khayyam ran away to his uncle's house in New Delhi.
There he was trained under classical