While Nayyar may have been commercially more successful in the 1950s, his 1960s work gives one the feeling that the composer was more relaxed. It could be that the assignments were fewer that Nayyar paid more attention to nuances. His Kashmir Ki Kali songs have some wonderful orchestrations and music pieces.

The rumbustious Yeh chaand sa roshan chehra with its Tareef karoon kya uski jisne tujhe banaya refrain is, of course, perennially popular. But then Nayyar's baton also serves up two Rafi-Asha duets -- Deewana hua badal and Isharon mein dil lene wale -- which have a dreamy, transporting-to-another-world quality about them.