# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/usha-khanna
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:41:45.579Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/usha-khanna"
name: "Usha Khanna"
slug: "usha-khanna"
description: "Usha Khanna is an Indian music director in Hindi cinema. She is the third female music director to enter the Hindi film industry, after Jaddan Bai and Saraswati Devi and is one of the most commercially successful music directors in the male dominated music industry. She is most known for songs like “maine rakha hai mohabbat” (Shabnam), “Hum tum say juda ho ke”, “gaa deewane jhoom ke”, \"Chhodo kal ki baatein\", \"Shaayad meri shaadi ka khayal\" (Souten), and “tu is tarah Se meri zindagi”. She remained active for more than 3 decades from 1960s to 1980s. She is still active making some music for some movies and television-serials, more than 40 years after her debut as music director in Dil Deke Dekho (1959). She received a Filmfare Award nomination for composing the songs for the huge hit film Souten (1983). She was married to director, producer, lyricist, Sawan Kumar Tak, from whom she separated later on."
tagline: "Indian composer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1941-10-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.72
  momentum:             1.12214863870493
  historical:           8.308828
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0451395/"
    handle:    "nm0451395"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/423756"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "اشا خانا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usha_Khanna"
    title: "Usha Khanna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%B7%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE"
    title: "उषा खन्ना"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mai.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%B7%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE"
    title: "उषा खन्ना"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%89%E0%B4%B7%E0%B4%BE_%E0%B4%96%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A8"
    title: "ഉഷാ ഖന്ന"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%B7%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE"
    title: "उषा खन्ना"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%8A%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%BC%E0%A8%BE_%E0%A8%96%E0%A9%B0%E0%A8%A8%E0%A8%BE"
    title: "ਊਸ਼ਾ ਖੰਨਾ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B4%D8%A7_%DA%A9%DA%BE%D9%86%DB%81"
    title: "اوشا کھنہ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a0dce6c9-5396-4b40-9083-d6a9833dae0d"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5282932"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1033075"
    title: "Usha Khanna"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump