He often spent nights sleeping on the footpath opposite the Broadway
theatre in Bombay, and dreamt of seeing his music played over there.
Sixteen years later, he burst into tears at the premiere of Baiju Bawra (1952), at
that same theatre.
In my 62 years in the film industry, I composed music for 66 films. These days, you come across people who have done the music 200 films in two years. What I'm saying is that, we used to agonise over every tune and phrase in music, spend sleepless nights over a song, and work on it until it was perfected. And I am still looking for that perfection.
