Madan Mohan's unsuccessful success
"My father suffered from one aspect. He didn't have too many successful films. He was a super successful song maker but the films didn't do too well. Maybe he didn't have any big banner films, he didn't have any big stars acting in his films too. But today, when you talk of great classic films, you talk of Dilip Kumar starrer Mughal-E-Azam, Amitabh Bachchan starrer Sholay, SRK starrer DDLJ, Raj Kapoor's film Sangam, etc. My father had heroes like Bharat Bhushan and Pradeep Kumar. He also had one or two Dev Anand starrer films that flopped, one or two Raj Kapoor films that were complete disaster and had not a single Dilip Kumar film. It were only his songs which worked in films. You can call it destiny. There were so many of his songs people don't even know who they were picturised on. There was a song called 'Woh Bhulee Dastaan' from Sanjog which was a huge hit. In the same film there was a song sung by Mukesh titled 'Bhulee Huyee Yaadon' which went unnoticed. His best songs were picturised on Priya Rajvansh in Chetan Anand's films. Dharmendra starrer and the first war film Haqeeqat directed by Chetan Anand was a big hit with his song 'Kar Chale Fida Jaan Watan Saathiyo' is still remembered. That's what a hit film does to you."

Madan Mohan - an inspiration
"Late Mr. Madan Mohan started his career in the year 1950. He was the junior most among that magical generation of music directors which had seniors who started their career in 1948 like Naushad, Roshan, Shankar Jaikishen, etc. Then some of them passed away and he became the only survivors of that generation into the 1970's. S.D.Burman was the only one alive but was too ill to do any work. He too passed away in the same year as my father did, in 1975. R.D.Burman completed S.D.Burman's film Aradhana. The next generation was R.D.Burman, Laxmikant Pyarelal, Kalyanji Anandji who started the commercial music. Society had changed in the 1970's, our exposure to the West increased, the films were different too, and along with the films, the music changed too. There was no place for a classical song. A little bit of cabaret and rock and roll began too. My father tried to sail with the tide but his songs were out of place. I must say this, when my father died in 1975 he thought that he did not get enough success what his calibre deserved. Everybody in his fraternity spoke about Madan Mohan being superior to them. Naushadji came to Madan Mohan when his songs from the film Anpadh were released and said, 'The score of these two songs in the film are equal to everything that I've done in the past.' When my father gave music for Heer Ranjha, S.D.Burman came up to him, hugged him and said, 'You've surpassed everything that I've done.'"