Shamshad Begum's voice was behind some of the biggest hits of the 1940s and 1950s but the singer stepped away from Hindi film music because of the rampant politics.
Nearly four decades before Madhuri Dixit (courtesy Alka Yagnik) in "Tezaab" (1988), she had already made the nation count "Ek do teen." in Raj Kapoor's "Awara" (1951) at her career's high point, when she was .