Great Music Director Khayyam Passes Away At 92

Leela Adwani |Aug 20, 2019

The great musician had been hospitalized because of a lung infection on 28 July after he collapsed right at his home.

Legendary music director Khayyam is no more. He passed away in Sujay Hospital in Mumbai yesterday because of a cardiac arrest.

His spokesperson Khayyam Trust Pritam Sharma stated,

Singer Talat Aziz also went on record to confirm the sad news. He told Indianexpress,

For those who are unversed, the great musician had been hospitalized because of a lung infection on 28 July after he collapsed right at his home.

The fact is that he was actually named Mohammed Zahur Khayyam Hashmi and began his career at a very young age of 17 in Ludhiana.

His career spanned nearly four decades from 1953 to 1990.

Speaking of his achievement, he is the winners of a host of prestigious awards including the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement in the year 2010. Khayyam also won two more Filmfare awards to his credit, one for Best Music (1977) for Kabhi Kabhie and one for Umrao Jaan (1982). In the year 2007, the legend was also awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in Creative Music.

Now tributes are now pouring in shortly after the news of his death was out. People and artists from all quarters took to their social media handles to remember our music maestro and offer their condolence to his family.

Mahan sangeetkar Aur bahut nek dil insan Khayyam sahab aaj humare bich nahi rahe. Ye sunkar mujhe itna dukh hua hai jo main bayaa’n nahi kar sakti.Khayyam sahab ke saath sangeet ke ek yug ka anth hua hai.Main unko vinamra shraddhanjali arpan karti hun. pic.twitter.com/8d1iAM2BPd

— Lata Mangeshkar (@mangeshkarlata) August 19, 2019