Music Has Taught Me Discipline

LOSE your eyes and let your mind sing these lines: 'Jab koi baat bigad jaaye, jab koi mushkil pad jaaye, tum dena saath mera, O Humnawaa...' and 'Pehla nasha pehla khumaar, naya pyaar hai naya intezaar...' These are the songs that an entire generation of Indians fell in love with and shared with those they fell in love with.

- NITIKA KRISHNA

LOSE your eyes and let your mind sing these lines: 'Jab koi baat bigad jaaye, jab koi mushkil pad jaaye, tum dena saath mera, O Humnawaa...' and 'Pehla nasha pehla khumaar, naya pyaar hai naya intezaar...' These are the songs that an entire generation of Indians fell in love with and shared with those they fell in love with. But it wasn't just the scintillating lyrics that made us swoon; every instrument played a beautiful part in these compositions. And the saxophone, especially, brought an unparalleled warmth and emotion to them. At the One World Fusion 2025 in Ravindra Bharathi, Hyderabadis met the great saxophonist behind these renditions and the ones in films like Don (1978), Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar (1992), Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), and Bunty Aur Babli (2005) — Raj Sodha!

In conversation with CE after the concert, he humbly says, "Main toh theek bajata hoon, but the audience in Hyderabad was wonderful! They are people who love music and have a good understanding of it."