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Talat Mahmood By Kohinoor Dasgupta May 9, 2022 T wenty-four years have gone by since the voice of Talat Mahmood fell silent. A year ago, my mind was foggy about his timeline in Bollywood. I did know things about the other male playback legends. K.L. Saigal took the country by storm, pre-Independence. Mohammad Rafi was a force of nature whose work spanned decades, ‘Baiju Bawra’ to ‘Hawas’ to ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’. Kishore Kumar was the voice of '70s superstars Rajesh Khanna and