New Delhi: For Naushad, known to the film industry as "the Mughal-e-Azam of Hindi music", there must have been but one regret in death that came knocking at his door this morning - missing Mughal-e-Azam's tryst with the Pakistani audience next month.
Naushad's demise at Mumbai's Nanavati hospital on Friday morning came even as Mughal-e-Azam was all set to release across Pakistani cinema halls next month, on June 2.
Sources in the Sterling Investment Corporation, the negative right holders of Mughal-e-Azam in India, say that the music composer, one of the few surviving titans associated with the epic Mughal-e-Azam along with the veteran actor Dilip Kumar, was keenly awaiting the release of the 60s classic in Pakistan.
Sources in the Sterling investment corporation said that Naushad had been instrumental in facilitating the process of adding stereophonic sound to the songs of 60s classic, personally supervising the process of re-recording the songs in Dolby.
For Naushad, it was a case of double celebration as both the films for which he had composed the music - Mughal-e-Azam and the recently-released Taj Mahal - had been okayed for release in cinema halls in Pakistan.
In fact, efforts were on to take Naushad to Pakistan to grace the premiere of Mughal-e-Azam, sources said.
However, it was not to be and that, undoubtedly will go down as one of Naushad's unfulfilled desires.
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