Remembering her early rejection, Lata once said, "Ghulam Haider was the first music director who showed complete faith in my talent.
He introduced me to many producers including S. Mukerji, a big name in film production, but when he too rejected me, Ghulam Haider was very furious.
Hence, finally he convinced Bombay Talkies, a banner bigger than S. Mukerji and introduced me through their movie Majboor (1948 film)".
He composed music for the then famous singer, Umrao Zia Begum, who was working for Pancholi Studios, Lahore.
By then Music Directors of the 1930s, who had composed film songs set in classical ragas, were beginning to sound commonplace.
[3] He introduced Lata Mangeshkar, Shamshad Begum, Sudha Malhotra and Surinder Kaur to the Indian Film Industry.
His assistants in Mumbai were film music composers Madan Mohan, Datta Naik and Nashad, not to be confused here with Naushad.
He died just a few days after the release of Pakistani film Gulnar (1953) due to throat cancer at age 45.