He joined the Army as a Second Lieutenant in the year 1943. At age 17, he attended the Colonel Brown Cambridge School in Dehradun where he completed a year's training. In Mumbai, at the age of 11 years, he started performing in children's programmes broadcast by All India Radio. Some time later, his family moved to Mumbai where he completed his Senior Cambridge from St. During his stay at Lahore, he learnt the basics of classical music from one Kartar Singh for a very short period, however he never received any formal training in music. He attended local school in Lahore for the next few years. He was left in the care of a grandparent while his father went to Bombay to seek business opportunities. After 1932, his family returned to their home town of Chakwal, then in Jhelum district of Punjab, British India. Early years īorn on 25 June 1924, at Baghdad where his father Rai Bahadur Chunilal Kohli was working as an Accountant General with the Iraqi Police forces, Madan Mohan spent the early years of his life in the Middle East. Some of his best works are with singers Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi and Talat Mahmood. He is particularly remembered for the immortal ghazals he composed for Hindi films. He is considered one of the most melodious and skilled music directors of the Hindi film industry. Madan Mohan Kohli (25 June 1924 – 14 July 1975), better known as Madan Mohan, was an Indian music director of the 1950s, 1960s and the 1970s. 1971: National Film Award for Best Music Direction – Dastak
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