A composer who has composed over 600 songs to his credit as a music director is unfortunately known by his son's name and fame. That is the sad story of the life of Sardar Malik!

Sardar Malik started life as dancer and even trained under the famed Uday Shankar at his residential school at Almora. He was always musically inclined as well and had a good singing voice too. So he started doing both performing in Uday Shankar’s troupe as a singer and teaching choreography. He was then offered singing assignments as well as music composition which he did quite happily. He started concentrating on music composing and created some beautiful masterpieces in films like Rain Basera, Stage, Saranga, Bachpan, Thokar, Maharani Padmini, Naag Jyoti, Abe Hayat, Poore Arab etc among others. However, he became the completely innocent victim of an argument between a famous lyricist and an even more famous playback singer during recording of a song. This cost him his career. After this he received only B grade films and spent the rest of his life teaching music.