Roshan Lal Nagrath (1917 – 1967), better known simply by his first name Roshan, is a legendary Hindi film music composer. During his career spanning 20 odd years, most notable quality of his music was the melody. He had his own style of music and never compromised with the quality of his music. Nor did he ever play to the gallery. He is especially remembered for the music which he rendered for qawwalis.

Producer director Kidar Sharma gave Roshan his first break with the music for the film Neki aur Badi (1949). In spite of the commercial failure of this film, Sharma entrusted Roshan with another assignment for his next film Baware Nain (1950) starring Geeta Bali and Raj Kapoor. This was a musical and commercial hit and truly launched Roshan as a leading composer. All the songs for the heroine were sung by singer Rajkumari Dubey, yet the most popular song of the film, Roshan’s first hit, was a duet sung by Mukesh and Geeta Dutt “Khayalon mein kisi ke isi tarhe aaya nahin karate” filmed on Raj Kapoor and the second heroine Vijayalaxmi. Till today, this is one of the most popular duets of Geeta Dutt and finds place on most of the CD compilations.