Whistling is an art, it is being a part of Bollywood songs since the 30s. Many memorable songs have a whistle the highlight of those songs. Whistling is being used in prelude or interlude in many songs. As a matter of fact, whistling was quite a vogue in most of the Dev Anand films
How whistling can make a career is a perfect example to Nagesh Surve who for the first time whistled in Julie After that he never looked back. Having whistled in over 1,500 Hindi film songs, Surve became Hindi film industry's chief whistler, collaborating with top-notch music directors, right from Lakshmikant-Pyarelal and Shankarlal-Jaikishan to Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and Pritam.
Nagesh Surve was a musician, he plays the violin, he was a member of Shankar Jaikishan orchestra but this art was used by Kanu Roy, music composer in Hindi and Bengali films for the first time in 1973 film Avishkar. Later Rajesh Roshan used his whistling in the song of Julie 1975.
