TIL Desk Bollywood/ Veteran Bollywood playback singer Mohammed Aziz, best remembered for his naughty rendition of the song ‘My Name Is Lakhan’, passed after away on Tuesday, after a heart attack in a private hospital, a family member said.
Aziz, 64, collapsed at the Mumbai Airport after deboarding from a Kolkata flight on Tuesday afternoon. He was rushed to the Nanavati Hospital in Vile Parle where he breathed his last a short while later. His body will be taken to his suburban Kandivali home.
Born in West Bengal’s Ashok Nagar as Syed Mohammed Aziz-un-Nabi in July 1954, he started his career as a restaurant singer in Kolkata till he got a singing break in a Bengali film, “Jyoti”, before he shifted to Mumbai and sang for the Hindi film “Ambar” (1984).
Later, he was spotted by the music director Anu Malik and got his first major breakthrough in Bollywood with the song “Mard Taangewala” (Mard, 1984).
