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Hemanta
Mukherjee, often credited as Hemant Kumar (16 June 1920 – 26 September 1989),
outside Bengal, was an Indian playback singer, music director and film
producer, who sang in Bengali, Hindi and other Indian languages. He is also
the greatest artiste of Rabindra Sangeet. He won two National awards for the
category best male playback singer. He is often credited as one of the
greatest Indian singers of all time for his unparalleled manly voice. Hemanta
was born in the city of Varanasi, Under the influence of his friend Subhas
Mukhopadhyay, Hemanta recorded his first song for All India Radio in 1935.
The first line of the song was "Amar Ganete Ele Nabarupi
Chirantanii." Hemanta's music career was primarily mentored by the
Bengali musician, Sailesh Duttagupta. In his early life Hemanta used to
follow the famous Bengali singer Pankaj Mullick. For this he was nicknamed as
"Chhoto Pankaj".In an interview on television in the early 1980s,
Hemanta had mentioned that he had also received classical music training from
Ustad Faiyaz Khan's student Phanibhusan Banerjee, but his tutelage was cut
short by the Ustad's untimely death.Nearly two decades after his death the
Gramophone Company of India releases at least one album by Hemanta
Mukhopadhyay every year, repackaging his older songs, because of the
commercial viability of his songs. His legacy still lives on through the
songs he has recorded, music he has composed, and through many male singers
in Bengal and the rest of India who continue to imitate/emulate his singing
style.
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Star Cast
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Aparna Sen, Ranjit
Mullik, Anup Kumar, Sumitra Mukherjee, Robi Ghosh, Sunil Bandyopadhyay,
Haradhan Bannerjee, Jam Barua, Debi Bhattacharya, Tapan Biswas, Nripati
Chatterjee, Shekhar Chatterjee, Tapan Chattopadhyay & Sumita Das
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