The book “Talat Mahmood The Definitive Biography”, written by his grand-niece and well-known journalist, Sahar Zaman, to mark 100 years of the singing legend, has achieved a feat very few can.

In the 1960s, while traveling to Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania for a planned concert, playback singer Talat Mahmood’s train stopped midway in the city of Mwanza. A crowd of 30 to 40 fans boarded his ...